Who we are
About the Texas People's Tribunal
The Texas People’s Tribunal (TPT) is an organization founded in 2023 in Harris County, Texas, the death penalty capital of the world. TPT is committed challenging human and civil rights injustices committed by the state of Texas against racialized peoples.
In 2023, TPT, along with our co-sponsors The Pan African Connection Bookstore and Resource Center, The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, Spirit of Mandela Coalition, and S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, organized a major coalition-building initiative titled Lethal Violence & the Lone Star State: A Southwest Conference on State Authorized Executions, successfully strengthening communication and solidarity efforts among grassroots and institutional groups in the Southwest region.
Currently, TPT is building the foundation for a people’s tribunal on Texas’s use of lethal violence amounting to genocide against racialized peoples. Through this effort, TPT intends to further the movement to end the mass killings of targeted peoples, and abolish the death penalty in Texas.
Tania Siddiqi
Founder & Coordinator
Tania Siddiqi is an attorney and educator. Her work focuses on creating and implementing effective strategies against state violence. She has led both regional and international movement-centered initiatives.
Tania was the Coordinator of the 2023 region-wide coalition building program Lethal Violence & the Lone Star State: A Southwest Conference on State Authorized Executions.
She was the International Teach-in Coordinator of the 2024 three-part series “If I Must Die, You Must Live:” An International Teach-in on War, the Death Penalty, Political Imprisonment, and the Palestinian Genocide.
Tania has published articles on colonialism, law enforcement, the Partition of India, migration, US imperialism, and the death penalty.
Precious Onalaja
Graphic Design Specialist
Precious Onalaja is an undergraduate student at Southern Methodist University, and is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Human Rights with a Public Policy track, and a Minor in Law and Legal Reasoning.
As an artist and activist, Precious uses her skills to communicate visual and written information about various modes of lethal violence. Her artistic investigation seeks to explore how organizing and collective care address social problems.
Precious designed and created the visuals for the Texas People’s Tribunal’s Lethal Violence & the Lone Star State: A Southwest Conference on State Authorized Executions and If I Must Die, You Must Live:” An International Teach-in on War, the Death Penalty, Political Imprisonment, and the Palestinian Genocide. You can check out Precious’s graphic design work on TPT’s Instagram.
Mirinda Rose
Communications Manager
Mirinda Rose is a writer and an organizer. They helped organize and speak at the 2023 region-wide coalition building program Lethal Violence & the Lone Star State: A Southwest Conference on State Authorized Executions.
Mirinda also helped organize as well as moderate a panel for the 2024 three-part series “If I Must Die, You Must Live:” An International Teach-in on War, the Death Penalty, Political Imprisonment, and the Palestinian Genocide.
They are a member of the Houston Abolitionist Collective, the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, and the Southern Workers Assembly. They formerly organized with End Mass Incarceration Houston, Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere (FIRE), and various mutual aid groups.
Mirinda is an editor of Tear Down the Walls – formerly known as the Prison Pages edited by Leslie Fienberg – the section dedicated to prison abolition in Worker’s World Newspaper. They have published articles on imperialism, environmental justice, and the interlocking oppressions of race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability within courts, jails, prisons, and migrant detention centers.
Miranda Uribe
Social Media Manager
Miranda graduated from Southern Methodist University with a Bachelors in Human Rights and African American Studies in May of 2024.
While at SMU, Miranda interned with the American Civil Liberties Union, and was the ACLU’s first Undergraduate Intern for its Capital Punishment Project. Miranda was the Co-Events Director of SMU’s Human Rights Council, and organized programming that empowered students to further human rights throughout their college career.
Miranda is pursuing her Masters of Science in Social Work at the Steve Hicks School at the University of Texas at Austin. She is interning with the Travis County Public Defender’s Office’s Social Services division.
Miranda is the Founder and Host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Advocacy,” a podcast centered on promoting and furthering community activism.
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Texas People's Tribunal