Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
‘Real solutions are not cheap.’ Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Calvert presents plan for 3,000 additional Permanent Affordable Housing units—and commits to tracking (and preventing) heat-related deaths.
Sudden heat shock expected to stress bodies across the state this week as 2025 continues to manifest unprecedented levels of extreme heat for Texas and the planet.
Against a backdrop of mass casualty embodied by the memorial to the 53 immigrants who died locked in a tractor trailer in 2022, organizers from a range of unions and worker-support organizations rallied crowds across San Antonio last week.
Advocates say the effort would begin repairing a system that fails to account for heat-related deaths across the community, a prerequisite for preventing needless suffering and loss of life. But Bexar County’s partnership remains uncertain.
“The biggest domestic threat to our Constitution is Donald Trump and those that support him,” said one marcher, describing himself as a 32-year veteran of the U.S. Army.
Deceleration stumbled into former and current Republicans at the Hands Off! march in San Antonio joining millions worldwide rallying against recent Trump actions, including the dismantling of federal agencies and social services, and in favor of fundamental human rights.
As calls for ‘Drill Baby Drill’ and ‘Mine Baby Mine’ filled the conference rooms at Hilton Americas in Houston, hundreds gathered outside to imagine what many described as the more just, sustainable, and inevitable world we all actually need.
As Trump launched a tariff war on Tuesday with the U.S.’s largest trading partners and attacked his political enemies, thousands rallied across the nation—including San Antonio—to fight back against the autocratic executive’s power grab.