Press and Updates

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...

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...

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...

April 20, 2021

[Excerpt from San Antonio Express-News] More than 600 San Antonio community members tuned in to a virtual accountability session where city politicians and candidates addressed police reform, workforce development, education and February’s power outages. Communities Organized for Public Service and the Metro Alliance, or...

April 13, 2021

Back in 1992, she was an organizer for COPS/Metro Alliance when the powerful community organization designed and persuaded the City to financially back Project Quest, which early on and to this day has been recognized as one of the most successful job training programs...

March 30, 2021

[Excerpts] A successful partnering of West Side parishes with COPS/Metro Alliance to study Pope Francis' recent encyclical, Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship), owes it all to Zoom-and the savvy leaders invovled.  It began with an informal discussion on the encyclical between Father...

March 12, 2021

Food For Thought host Father Jim Schellenberg talks with leaders Sonia Hernandez and Father Mike DeGerolami about COPS/Metro's track record in San Antonio.  

February 19, 2021

While state officials announced later in the day that power had stabilized and forced shutoffs were no longer needed, more than 300,000 households remained without power....Texas was especially hard hit because most of its power grid is isolated from the interconnected networks serving the...

February 09, 2021

[Excerpts] Leaders from the Southside Independent School District and COPS/Metro announced their new working relationship at a Dec. 3 physically distanced press conference. Together they plan a listening tour, including monthly gatherings where district officials can get direct input from learners, their families and...

January 07, 2021

What happened Wednesday, January 6 at the U.S. Capitol disrespected, demeaned, and threatened the right of every citizen who peacefully engages in the democratic process in our country. Deliberation, debate, argument, compromise, deal-making; these are the means to advance interests in a democracy. The...