Marisol Cortez is the Executive 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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In this Weekly Witness series, we share some of the most significant messages posted to the public Facebook group Witness: Tornillo. Target: MPP by volunteers who have staked
As part of #TargetMPP, witnesses begin reporting back on the disastrous impact of Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program in Brownsville/Matamoros.
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I met Joshua Rubin, I think,
Interfaith Welcome Coalition invites people of conscience to a powerful action that begins this Sunday, January 12, and continues “until the policy of MPP [Migrant Protection Protocols] is reversed and
San Antonio Tenants Union’s year-end summary of organizing successes and call for ongoing support.
Pancho Valdez
After complaining for over six months and having our issues ignored by the
In the gentle ferocity of Manuel de la O lies a manual for survivance.
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This Solstice of 2019, as the earth sinks into deepest cold and dark, and
An invitation from ABOUT FACE: Veterans Against the War:
Words fall short of communicating the trauma that combat veterans of the so called “War on Terror” have experienced, while institutions
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As Día de los Muertos approaches – bedecking local H-E-Bs in all manner of commercialized Latinidad – another familiar ritual begins in the far northern reaches of the hemisphere. Like
Editor’s Note: I had the pleasure of crossing paths with David Watson—writer, teacher, activist, and early member of Fifth Estate, a long-running anarchist mag out of Detroit, MI—
By Annie H. Hartnett
In one of my earliest memories, I am standing in front of my house on the coast of Mississippi watching the waves roil and swell, surging
A Close Reading of “Another View: Why We Support Moving Egrets from Elmendorf Lake Park.”
Editor’s Note: In an epistolary take on the traditional op-ed, Kamala Platt below responds
What makes El Paso shooting feel different is its utter expectedness, following as it did on the heels of Trump’s racist attacks on Brown and Black Congresswomen, the ominous “send her back” chanting that followed, and the endless, ongoing dehumanization and internment of migrants and children arriv
Editor’s Note: Deceleration is pleased to offer this guest column by Jovanni Reyes, a longtime anti-war voice in San Antonio, which chronicles Gloria La Riva’s local stop on
