Human Rights 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.

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.

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.

‘Power for Palestine’ Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio’s Role in Genocide

By Marisol Cortez ● Decolonial ● October 10, 2025

Six local orgs announced a new coalition targeting San Antonio’s material support for Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine—and to grieve more than 65,000 deaths since October 7, 2023.

PODCAST: Remembering Jack Elder—Activist, Peacemaker, Defender of Human Rights & La Madre Tierra

By Marisol Cortez ● Human Rights ● September 20, 2025

In a moment convulsed by questions of who we remember and how, we choose to commemorate the life of our friend and comrade Jack Elder (1943-2025).

Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

By Marisol Cortez ● Energy ● August 27, 2025

A coalition of organizations led residents and media across San Antonio’s ‘red line of inequity,’ spotlighting the overwhelming burden of polluting industries that persist south of Highway 90.

What Homeland Security’s Social Media Says about White Womanhood & American Empire

By The 19th ● Human Rights ● August 20, 2025

“There’s a deliberate kind of deception being practiced here that is really cynical and really dangerous,” a historian told the 19th.

ASLE 2025: Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance—From Barton Springs Attack to Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’

By Kit O’Connell ● Arts and Letters ● August 14, 2025

Amid rising attacks on trans people, ideas from ‘queer ecology’ can light the way toward an alternative environmental politics capable of honoring ‘femme-coded’ ways of thriving beside and beyond our waterways.