Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
Greg Harman
Tracking devices, night vision and motion detectors, micro drones (and “drone killers”) … a sharpshooter competition. Amid a feast of military gear on sale at Border Security 2020 in
Why we can’t avert climate catastrophe without demilitarization, dismantling the world’s militarized power structures.
Andrew Metheven
Over the last few weeks and months, grassroots activism has pushed climate
The Esto’k Gna tribe is reviving ancestral villages along the length of the Rio Grande that stand squarely in the pathway of Trump’s proposed border wall expansion.
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Greg Harman
On Wednesday, March 11, residents of San Antonio and around the region will gather outside the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center to decry the Border Security Expo. The
“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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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
