Interview with Marina Roberts

Interview with Marina Roberts

Marina Roberts is a public-school teacher, union member, and community organizer living and working in Austin, Texas. During her interview, Marina discusses her work advocating for housing rights in Austin, Texas, specifically her campaign work to decriminalize houselessness in 2019, and her recent work fighting Proposition B, a ballot initiative passed in Austin on May 1st, 2021. Proposition B reinstated the camping ban that was repealed in 2019, making it a criminal offense to sit, lie down, or camp in public areas. This interview was conducted on June 23, 2021, in Garrison Hall on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

Marina Roberts

Texas After Violence Project

23 June 2021

public -- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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English

interview

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North America--United States--Texas--Travis County--Austin

Murphy Anne Carter

Marina Roberts

Garrison Hall, The University of Texas at Austin, Travis County, Texas

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