Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
“I speak for this river carrying the stillborn, the dying —
this water that quenches the thirst of bosque, mergansers,
warblers, and ash-throated flycatchers.”
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Greg Harman
BROWNSVILLE, Texas—As the number of asylum seekers crowded in a Matamoros tent camp swells across the river from Brownsville, ordinary people from a range of community aid
“Canada invades. Invades on behalf of industry. Invades during ceremony. Canada tears us from our land.”
— Wetʼsuwetʼen Resistance Camp Communication
Greg Harman
The Wet’suwet’en peoples’s struggle against
Previous global ‘efforts’ to tackle climate breakdown have failed dramatically, because they have been based on a fundamentally flawed economic paradigm: growth.
Joe Herbert
The concept of growth is an
‘It takes compassion, courage, a willingness to ask tough questions to be able to continue to do the work. So when you look at the Alamo, you don’t think Davy Crockett or all this John Wayne mythology of this place. You think of the compassion and grace of those indigenous people.’
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Though critical to forest protection and reversing the climate crisis, indigenous rights are under attack and losing the fight in Bolivia against agricultural interests.
Iokiñe Rodríguez and Mirna Inturias
Earth’
Monarch mural in Mexico. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Midwest Region.
Raúl Hernández Romero received death threats before his body was found, family says.
Julia Conley
Human rights
In the absence of an effective response by Brazil’s right-wing government to an oil disaster five months ago, civil society is rising to the challenge.
Marina Martinez
A major
Hurts may not always be visible, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t intended, panelists say.
Greg Harman
This week, a handful of parents were allowed to fly into
Greg Harman
A coalition of organizations and individuals launched a public campaign this week calling for the end of the violent eviction of the birds of Bird Island on San
In 2019, the people’s struggle against neoliberalism gained ground across Latin America.
Roger Harris
A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe
