VIDEO: What Occupy ICE SATX Needs You To Know (and Do)
By Marisol Cortez On Tuesday, July 17th, community members from throughout Central and South Texas answered a national call for the abolition of ICE, moved both by the recent horror […]
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PODCAST: Interfaces 1 (Government Hill)
Marisol Cortez A couple Sundays back, in late March, I finally get around to visiting Gil and Jo Ann Murillo where they have lived for decades in Government Hill—a neighborhood […]
Beyond DACA: Toward a Native Understanding of Nationhood
Last week, Deceleration ran an article by Bettie Lyons of the American Indian Law Alliance calling on people of conscience to understand DACA from an Indigenous People’s perspective. To delve more deeply […]
Justice for Kenne! Rally
Happening tonight, Tuesday, March 13th from 6-8pm: Justice for Kenne McFadden rally at Crockett Park. Click here to watch the livestream, produced by Transgender Education Network of Texas: Part 1 […]
DACA: Human Rights Cannot Be Deferred
Editors’ Note: We have been asked to cross-post this important analysis, which addresses the ongoing crisis of DACA (and immigrant rights broadly) from an Indigenous perspective whose point of reference […]
Flip That House: Turning Gentrification into Political Art
By Marisol Cortez and Brian Gordon Materials Disgust Brazenness Obsession Facebook Stepladder Rake Scissors Car, and probably a truck too PVC pipes and connectors PVC glue Duct tape 8 8’x4′ […]
Degrowth: Coming to a Hemisphere Near You
Marisol Cortez A few years ago, while writing a series about development politics in San Antonio, and specifically about alternatives to development as a conceptual paradigm, I signed up for […]
When the Levee Breaks
Deluge in the Delta Amid California’s Changing Climate by Madi Whaley Never before have I been scared of the rain. As a child, it was always a wonderful surprise, a […]
The Fire of Fox is Within You
Pamela Boyce Simms on the Necessity of Contemplative Traditions in the Age of Climate Chaos and Kakistocracy Marisol Cortez Last weekend, Deceleration ventured up the road to San Antonio’s Quaker […]
Inspiring Tactics for Fascist Times
Too good not to share. From L.M. Bogad, “Playing in the Key of Clown: Reflections on the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army,” originally published in the Winter 2017 issue of Fifth […]
A Funny Little Story about RT America
Photo: www.youtube.com/user/1AmericaNews, via CNN Money By Marisol Cortez Some months ago, Deceleration received a message to our Facebook inbox from a producer with RT America–the US media arm of Russia […]
Kazu Haga on “The Urgency of Slowing Down”
Editor’s note: We’ve shared Kazu Haga’s work before on Deceleration (see “Why Defeating Trump Demands Nonviolence”). In fact, everything he’s written that I’ve come across resonates deeply for me, and […]
Let’s Meet Up By the Water: A Reportback from ASLE 2017
This month Deceleration is traveling and reporting back! Greg will be in Ecuador for a three-week intensive course on environmental peacemaking, while I just returned from Detroit, where I attended […]
Deceleration at ASLE 2017
This past week the environmental humanities arm of Deceleration took two days off work and Xanax’ed our way through nightmare flights to/from Detroit, where we joined up with the Association […]