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04/07/2026

Howdy friends! Please join us this coming Sunday morning for another workday at Cane River Gardens!

We have a wide variety of tasks planned including installing some exhibition walls, digging a small drainage ditch, treating wood for our shade structure, along with some general garden maintenance.

Sunday, April 12
4205 Lyons Ave
9am-12pm

03/21/2026

Peace & solidarity to our friends and allies!! Together we opened the Houston Climate Justice Museum's Free the Land Print Lab with screen printing, banner painting, sign making, and an environmental racism teach-in with EJ organizers from across the state and beyond.

The Free the Land Print Lab will be open on Sunday (3/22) from 1-5pm and Friday (3/27) from 1-6pm at 3308 Garrow Street.

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03/19/2026

We’re opening our 3308 Garrow Street location to provide space for organizers and community members mobilizing for the duration of Confronting CERAWeek (March 20-29) in Houston.

CERAWeek is the oil and gas industry’s biggest annual conference hosted by S&P Global in Houston. It’s time to show them that Houston wants a just transition away from fossil fuels and an end to their eco-terrorism in our communities.

As part of Confronting CERAWeek, we’re announcing the opening of the Free the Land Print Lab, a community resource for passionate climate justice activists and their communities to print educational material and propaganda to advance their work. The Free the Land Print Lab will remain open Friday’s from 1 - 6PM for the duration of CERAWeek for anyone organizing around environmental issues to drop in and use our printing services.

WHERE WE’LL BE CONFRONTING CERAWEEK

In addition to open hours at the Print Lab, we’ll also be popping up throughout the week with our friends and allies:

Friday, March 20 // Free the Land Print Lab Opening + Art Build // Free the Land Print Lab, 3308 Garrow Street, 12 - 8PM (w/a 12pm talk by Earth Liberation Studio and 6PM talk by Josiah Rector)

Saturday, March 21 // Solar Trailer Activation & Training @ Build the Future Community Day // Mason Park, 11AM - 3PM

Sunday, March 22 // Free the Land Print Lab special hours, 3308 Garrow Street, 1 - 5PM

Monday, March 23 // Break the System Rally, City Hall to GRB , 11AM - 2PM

03/14/2026

Please join us, , and this Sunday, March 15, 2026 from 1PM to 4PM for an interactive community art workshop for our Neighbors Uplift: Kashmere Gardens mural project - facilitated by two incredible artist and community members and hosted at the Hester House.

The workshop is free and open to the public, especially to our neighbors in the Kashmere Gardens neighborhood. It will include several art activities, details about the purpose of the murals, and information about the organizations involved in the project. Free food will also be provided as well as live spanish interpretation

12/15/2025

We’re calling on our HCJM community to help us with our ongoing build-out at Cane River Gardens! Your volunteer efforts will help us prepare the site for community events and exhibitions to grow in the future.

Join us this Saturday, December 20 at 2pm at our outdoor exhibition site, Cane River Gardens, to learn about what we’re building and become a part of our work. We’ll be doing a variety of manual site work from 2 to 4pm (great opportunity to touch grass!) then lighting up the campfire with pre-dinner snacks and food until sunset.

Workday and Cookout
4205 Lyons Ave.
2:00PM - Sunset

09/15/2025

Houston has not one, but two “climate weeks” this year — both deeply tied to the fossil fuel industry.

Organizers of these conferences will say that we should do everything to mitigate the climate crisis, yet anything that might touch the bottom lines of the fossil fuel industry is not on the table. As is well known, in order to meet targets set out in the Paris agreement, much of fossil fuel companies ‘proven reserves’ must stay in the ground, and no new fossil fuel infrastructure should be built.

Houston Energy & Climate Week organizers proclaim the value of ‘unity,’ that ‘we’ should all work together to tackle net zero. Yet fossil fuel companies are the biggest barriers to rapid decarbonization. Fossil majors have increased - not decreased - their production over the last year. They’ve long funneled money into climate denialism and politics: they spent nearly half a trillion dollars on the 2024 election alone.

This is the new climate regime: fossil fuel companies want to be both the cause of AND solution for the climate crisis. The ‘solutions’ they peddle are unproven and can involve considerable environmental risk themselves.

The “Energy &” message is clear: profit first, planet second. Unity means aligning with extractive interests, and continually leaves out communities on the frontlines.

09/08/2025

Volunteers needed! Join us at Cane River Gardens for two upcoming Permaculture Service Learning days led by Ginger Jeudy (The Beloved Community) and Carol Burton (Urban Harvest). Topics and projects will include bioremediation earthworks, plant guilds, and tree care. Breakfast bites provided!

Link in bio to rsvp.

09/05/2025

The Houston Ship Channel is the nation’s #1 waterway — a racial sacrifice zone of 600+ petrochemical plants that fuel ecocide at home. Within it, the Port of Houston’s public container terminals are also enabling genocide in Gaza by handling fighter jet parts bound for Israel.

As documented by the Palestinian Youth Movement, specialized containers for F-35 jet wings and components move back and forth between Lockheed Martin facilities in Fort Worth and Israel Aerospace Industries in Haifa. Without the F-35 fighter jet, Israel could not carry out its airstrikes on hospitals, schools, and refugee camps.

These shipments go through the Port of Houston, where tailored infrastructure is built to move oversized cargo fast. And with the absence of local policies governing military end-use cargo at the Port of Houston’s terminals, the city has become a key node in the global supply chain of death.

We join the people of Houston to demand an arms embargo: an immediate end to all weapons transfers to and from Israel. Share this petition with your friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers.

Sign the petition now using the link in our bio.
Follow for future updates about the campaign!

To read PYM’s report: Maersk’s Central Role in Manufacturing and Maintaining F-35 Fighter Jets for Israel: bit./ly/PYM_shipments_for_slaughter

06/24/2025

We’re reaching out to share about an upcoming letter-writing workshop at Cane River Gardens to support homeowners who participated in the EPA/Union Pacific creosote investigation. We will help property owners draft and print letters to request the full data panels for their properties and mail the letters directly from the event. Details about the workshop are below.

What: Info session and letter-writing workshop about process for obtaining property owners’ full data panels from Union Pacific. Participants should bring a copy of any letters they received from Union Pacific or soil testing labs during the investigation. Participants may also bring their own laptop or tablet to draft a letter on-site.

Who: Fifth ward property owners who participated in the testing process
When: Wednesday, June 25 from 6-8pm
Where: Houston Climate Justice Museum @ Cane River Gardens, 4205 Lyons Ave

Food and drinks will be provided! Please reach out to Tiffany Jin or Sandra Edwards with any questions.

06/03/2025

Narratives shape public understanding—and priorities. When City of Houston Mayor Whitmire and other public officials say Houston is facing a budget deficit and must cut essential services, we also need to ask: why is the city missing out on revenue in the first place? At the same time that departments like parks, libraries, public health, and drainage are underfunded, Houston continues to give generous tax breaks and subsidies to oil and gas corporations.

In a newly published study analyzing these tax subsidies in the state of Texas, in their Greater Houston report showed “roughly $1 billion in tax breaks, with ExxonMobil – the world’s 7th most profitable company – receiving the largest subsidy, at $200 million. The average cost per job was $1.2 million. Occidental Petroleum received a tax break of $77.4 million in exchange for creating just two jobs, resulting in a jaw-dropping cost to taxpayers of $38.7 million per job.”

As Dominic Chacon from Texas Campaign for the Environment pointed out in public comment at a recent City Council meeting:
“We looked at the City of Houston, and the city is giving away—or losing and not claiming—about $93 million through a tax code called Industrial District Agreements. These are tax arrangements granted to companies like Chevron and Shell, costing the city tens of millions in uncollected revenue.”

Join and for the Budget vote and rally tomorrow!

Follow for more information on their drainage campaign

🔗texasenvironment.org/you-pay-his-taxes for their tax abatement study

05/06/2025

Beneath the Surface: Health, Harm, and Hope
Documentary screening and panel conversation
Presented with the Houston Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

🗓️ Saturday, May 10, 2025
🕑 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
📍 DeLUXE Theater | 3303 Lyons Ave, Houston, TX 77020

Please join us this Saturday for a special screening of Houston’s Fifth Ward Exposed: Community, Contamination, and Cancer, a documentary by NOWINCLUDED + Council Member Letitia Plummer’s office, followed by a conversation with leading community activists and scholars. This will be an opportunity to hear from a broad range of perspectives on environmental organizing, legacy pollution, and the rich history of Fifth Ward. Bringing together history and environmental science, cancer research and community organizing, this event is part of a larger conversation on the types of alliances needed for local climate justice action.

This event was made possible by the support of Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. On April 2, all state humanities councils—including Humanities Texas—received notification that their federal funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) had been terminated, effective immediately.

🔗 RSVP here: https://form.jotform.com/250977073423157
🔗 Link in bio for more information

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3308 Garrow Street
Houston, TX
77003

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11am - 5pm

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+18327579737

Website

http://climatejusticemuseum.org/

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