Reporting Archives – Deceleration

Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex

By Greg Harman ● Deceleration Video ● December 16, 2025

A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising human rights catastrophe in the United States.

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ACLU: ICE Detainees at Camp East Montana Beaten, Threatened with Illegal Removal to Mexico

By Cindy Ramirez & El Paso Matters ● Human Rights ● December 16, 2025

Camp East Montana, a massive tent ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, opened in August and now holds about 2,700 detainees.

Diane Wilson Can See a World After Plastics. Can You?

By Roxana Rojas ● Gulf Coast ● December 15, 2025

Q&A with the ferocious and talented (and focused) fisherwoman activist Diane Wilson after the first People’s Microplastics Conference in Calhoun County.

Calhoun County’s First ‘People’s Microplastics Conference’ Hopes to Usher in the End of Plastics

By Roxana Rojas ● Gulf Coast ● December 15, 2025

Activists and researchers engaged in a two-day first-of-its-kind gathering in Calhoun County on the insidious entangling of all life on Earth with plastics, a creation of fossil fuels.

EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States

By Gaige Davila ● Reporting ● December 11, 2025

New report from Environmental Integrity Project finds that states were already largely shirking their regulatory and enforcement roles before the US EPA began retreating from its mission.

Carbon Dioxide Accidents Show Regulatory Failure in Emerging Public Health Threat

By Syris Valentine ● Energy ● December 9, 2025

While not as hazardous as oil or natural gas, carbon dioxide’s unique properties—and potential boom to anticipated 69,000 miles of pipelines—mean new laws are needed to keep communities safe.

Campaign to End Femicide in Texas Launched by Mujeres Marcharan

By Greg Harman ● Human Rights ● December 8, 2025

Demands call for properly categorizing murders of women and female children as femicide, on the way toward ending femicide, transfemicide, and homophobic murders.

As Global Climate Talks Fumble, Texas Campaigns Target Companies Powering Genocide and Ecocide

By Marisol Cortez ● Solutions ● November 25, 2025

With COP30 delegates unable to agree on a roadmap to end fossil fuels and deforestation, Texas activists escalate boycotts of companies profiting off the destruction of Indigenous lives and lands, from Palestine to Amazonia.

Children Among ‘More Than 140’ Detained by ICE & FBI in Multi-Agency Sweep in San Antonio

By Greg Harman ● Human Rights ● November 21, 2025

Few details have been shared by federal agencies—including who was detained or where they are being held—but the first charges brought have nothing to do with trafficking or gangs.

PODCAST: Antiwar Vets Urge Soldiers to Claim their ‘Right to Refuse’ Illegal and Immoral Orders

By Marisol Cortez ● Human Rights ● November 13, 2025

In a community conversation closing out a gallery exhibit organized by ABOUT Face: Veterans Against the War, panelists from Texas and California discuss the histories of veteran activism against war and occupation and why soldiers today have a “right to refuse” Trump administration orders to deploy against US cities.