COPS Metro Video Highlights History of Achievement, Building Towards Future
April 12, 2022
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Read MoreCOPS/Metro Cited in Express-News for Training Generations of Leaders
March 16, 2022
[Excerpt] The book includes critical assessments of the status of Mexican Americans, none as important, in my judgment, as the emergence of “a professional and academic voice” among Latinos and the rise of major institutions to advocate for Mexican Americans and defend their rights....
Read MoreTexas IAF Calls On State Comptroller to Abandon Plan to Gut Chapter 313 Subsidy Accountability Requirements
December 21, 2021
[Excerpt] "Lawmakers have ordered Comptroller Glenn Hegar to wrap up Texas’s biggest corporate tax break program, but he wants to give companies one last gift: an end to public accountability. Activists, corporate relocation specialists and lawmakers are scrambling to comment on Hegar’s proposal that...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Leader Virginia Mata Profiled in HEB Foundation Magazine
November 17, 2021
[Excerpt] Everyone in San Antonio knows about flash floods—“Turn Around, Don’t Drown” signs are familiar on certain roads. But in the West Side, a neighborhood established by Mexican Americans who were restricted from more resourced neighborhoods north of downtown, floods were far more commonplace. “I...
Read MoreVirginia Mata & Sonia Rodriguez: Halt Job Program's Slide Into Mediocrity
July 09, 2021
[Excerpt] City staff has moved at breakneck speed by self-imposing a timeline that does not consider their need to learn more broadly what works and what does not work. This massive initiative needs a true champion to lead it now. COPS/Metro calls on Mayor...
Read MoreSA Ready to Work is 'Too Big to Fail'
July 03, 2021
[Excerpt] As San Antonio’s job training program lags and officials try to suss out the details of its next phase, a key backer worries the initiative is in trouble. COPS/Metro, a grassroots advocacy group, aggressively lobbied city leaders to create an emergency program to...
Read MoreTexas IAF Blocks $10 Billion Dollar Corporate Tax Giveaway to Big Oil
June 01, 2021
[Excerpts] When organizers set out to overturn Texas’s giveaway program for the oil and gas industry, they had a long game in mind. Over 20 years, the tax exemption program known as Chapter 313 had delivered $10 billion in tax cuts to corporations operating...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Cited in Stories of Hope in the New Book About the Sisters of the Incarnate Word
May 06, 2021
Sr. Tere Maya "says people planting community gardens and pastors feeding people during the pandemic, as well as those working for COPS/Metro Alliance or the Interfaith Welcome Coalition in San Antonio, have their own stories of hope.” Ayala: San Antonio's Blue Hole is a...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro, with Texas IAF, Bishops & Faithful Call on Lt. Governor and Senate to Reject 'Permitless Carry' Legislation
April 22, 2021
Bishops, rabbis, clergy and faithful from across Texas convened to express vocal opposition to the passage of proposed legislation HB1927 which would allow "permitless carry" in the state of Texas. Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz referenced the massacre in El Paso which resulted in dozens...
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