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 […]
Category Archives: Analysis
A Funny Little Story about RT America
Photo: http://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 […]
Climate Justice Requires a Lot More Than Another Plan
Your City Supports Climate Action? Define Action. Greg Harman and Marisol Cortez If there was any question as to what “America First” meant when it came to the subject of […]
Violins Over Violence: Why Creative Nonviolence Still Wins
QUITO, Ecuador—Within the first few months of the CIA-backed overthrow of Chilean socialist president Salvador Allende, an estimated 40,000 people had been detained by the military and police. General Augusto […]
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 […]
In Colombia, the spoilers of peace may not be the veterans of war
Symbols are the superstructure of society. Nations form and crust around creation myths. Wars are executed in pursuit of some (imagined) glorious past. Every person who lives under a flag […]
Can Ecuador’s ‘Buen Vivir’ translate in the United States?
With an 8-1 passage of a resolution in support of the landmark Paris Agreement, an international agreement by the global community to work together to solve the climate crisis, San […]
CTAB Dispatch: Peace means more than the absence of war
QUITO, Ecuador—In academia, the study of peace often falls inside the field of political science. For many observers and practitioners alike, the notion that politics can be described as a […]
Enter Peacemaking… Conflict Transformation Across Borders
[ In my studies in international relations at St. Mary’s University, I have written often on various challenges surrounding accelerating climate change. This research has included examining the unintended consequences […]
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 […]
Why Defeating Trump Demands Nonviolence
Kazu Haga/Waging Nonviolence I admit, I laughed a little too. When I first saw videos of white nationalist Richard Spencer getting punched by a protester, I thought it was funny. […]
Talking Jobs: Pipelines Don’t Just Threaten The Water
Sure, pipelines are good for oil companies, but what about jobs related to preserving nature and culture? Chip Colwell, University of Colorado Denver On his fourth day as U.S. president, […]
Leaking to the Media is Patriotic. Here’s How to Do It
George W. Bush ushered in an era covert mass surveillance, extraordinary renditions, and a highly secret drone-powered assassination program. Though pledging to break with the policies of his shadow-hugging predecessor, […]
Art of the Deal: How to Protest Trump
Start preparing ground for a big-tent collaborative. Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer, Case Western Reserve University With the new administration beginning, many people might want to know how to resist it. The […]
‘Society Must Be Defended’: An Inauguration Day Read-In
Here’s a unique way of organizing in resistance to the incoming administration. Via Paige West and JC Salyer In the wake of the 2016 US presidential election scholars across the […]
The Meaning of Carrie Fisher’s Prozac-Pill-Shapped Urn
In the late 1990’s, I started writing about social and environmental justice in West Texas. Sure, there were the livestock shows, balloon festivals, prison deaths, and bear-trackings. But early exposure […]
It’s The Racism, Stupid
How did we just elect the most unqualified man to the presidency? Donald Trump proved (again) this week that he is totally uninterested—or, worse, incapable of—representing all America. Unable to […]
Can Facebook Create an Algorithm to Defuse Voter Anger?
Zuckerberg’s problem is more complicated than fake news R. Kelly Garrett In the wake of Donald Trump’s unexpected victory, many questions have been raised about Facebook’s role in the promotion […]
Climate Deniers are Not Little Galileos. Here’s Why.
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How is it measured and what it means. Ray Weymann/Central Coast Climate Science It is frequently said that “97 percent of climate scientists agree […]
These Quotes Will Inspire You in Your Fight Against Tyranny
When Trump’s Fascist-leaning, Anti-democratic Collage of Multibillionaires, White Supremacists, Wall Street Tycoons, Washington, DC Insiders, Christian Dominionists, War-Mongering Military Generals, Holocaust Deniers, and Climate Change Deniers Try to Impose Their […]
The White Nationalist Who Came to Dinner
He was groomed from childhood to one day be a key leader in the white nationalist movement. Then, after being outed at his liberal arts college as a racist streaming-radio […]
{FAKE NEWS} Doctor Breaks Silence on Trump’s Brain Infection {FAKE NEWS}
Link to rumored venereal disease could make condition untreatable! Donald Trump’s contentious ride to the White House is all but over, but the debate over his medical fitness for office […]
How Standing Rock Stole My Despair
And what the indigenous resistance in North Dakota means for Texas and a world wrapped in pipelines. At the Oceti Sakowin Camp, just outside the Standing Rock Native American Reservation […]
Johan Galtung: Seeking a Global ‘Arthurian Round Table’
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” — From “The Sermon on the Mount” [Interviewer’s Note: A man who has published more than 150 […]
Trump: Erdogan-Style Purges & the New Deplorables
In the week’s following the unsuccessful summer coup seeking to unseat Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian regime, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched an aggressive purge seemingly targeting all those thought to be […]
House Divided: The Corruption Eating America
This column is too important, too insightful and clearly stated to be allowed to drift behind a pay wall for the benefit of the few. With apologies to Foreign Policy, […]
Election 2016: Dying Gasps of the Last Global State?
By Richard Falk A cascade of developments should make us afraid of what seems to be emerging politically in the United States at this time. Although politicians keep telling us […]
‘Deepwater Horizon’ Avoids Real Culprit of BP Blowout
By Ansu John When it happened, we all knew that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was unprecedented in scale. The whole nation watched the black billowing smoke from that rig […]
Man Dressed as Tree Blocks Traffic. This is Deceleration!
I’m a tireless advocate [of] slowness and stillness and quiet in my life and I feel like we could use a lot more of that right now. We’re always on […]
North Dakota: Stop the War on Journalists
[An adapted version of this post has since been published at Indian Country Today.] SEJ joins organizations condemning the intimidation of journalists at Standing Rock It’s the First Amendment: one […]
Trump Attack Shames the Mentally Ill
This is not about Donald Trump. It’s about the language we use talking about mental illness. It’s been a long, ugly march out of the “madhouses” of American history. But […]
How to Co-opt an Indigenous Struggle
The big fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota by a now-estimated 300-odd indigenous nations and tribes and allies can be viewed from many perspectives. Perhaps the least […]
Gorillas Object to Trump’s ‘Weaponized Masculinity’
This is more than a teachable moment. This is a recall election on the patriarchy. And the gorillas are on our side. Since Donald Trump was caught bragging about his […]
SXSW Eco: Encounters with Visionaries & Techno-Fetishists
AUSTIN, Texas—This week, at SXSW Eco, a prominent conference bringing together sustainable business leaders, planners, and others, there are innumerable sessions devoted to startup businesses, socially conscious consumption, “bio-based economies,” […]
Aleppo: Time for Food Drones
Regarding to humanitarian disaster in Aleppo, Anthony Judge asks a vital question this week: “If no [governmental] authorization is required for destructive bombing, why is authorization required for ‘food bombing’?” […]
