With thousands of buildings torn down every year, nonprofits and city agencies are racing to record the stories attached to historic structures before they’re dismantled and sold for parts.
'F*ck It. Arrest me.' A conversation with Elsa Hull, a dedicated borderlands water protector arrested twice in Zapata County for resisting border wall construction.
How self-loathing in the Rio Grande Valley helps facilitate ICE's war on our families, friends, neighbors...and systemic abuses of the land itself.
From Seattle to Houston to Asheville, North Carolina, (and beyond!) tool libraries and other sharing hubs are saving people money, preventing waste, and building spaces for resilience.
A roundup of meetings and actions and Deceleration headlines from the week.
Plus: Mapping Flock cameras—and highlighting how they help facilitate the deportation industrial complex tearing our families and communities apart.
The complexity of our situation, including fossil fuel lobbying and risks of democratic collapse, are fully represented by the creators of 'Daybreak.' But winning the game is still within reach.
The ongoing ‘murder-suicide’ of our living Rio Grande Valley (ie. economic development) has the same billionaire overlord vibe as the slave-picked cotton profits fought for by ‘Rip’ Ford in 1865.
Plus: Why a non-unanimous decision on birthright citizenship should concern us all—and how we keep fighting when we want to give in to crippling fear, grief, and panic.
Seattle has a plan to address the proliferation of plastics. How can we replicate its successes in less eco-friendly cities and states?
Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
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Marisol Cortez is the Creative Editor of Deceleration. As a creative writer and community-based scholar, she explores place and power in South Texas and for Deceleration covers ecojustice arts and humanities.
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Syris Valentine is a writer and journalist focused on climate solutions, social justice, and the just transition. Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, Grist, High Country News, Scientific American, and elsewhere.
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Gaige Davila writes stories about immigration, environmental justice, and the borderlands.
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