VIDEO: Gentrification Looms over Downtown SATX
Stand with Soap Works & Towne Center tenants-rights group is raising the voices of the city’s most vulnerable residents being torn by gentrification. Greg Harman In San Antonio, there have […]
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‘Three Billion Reasons’ San Antonio Should Reject the RNC
*UPDATE: It appears the San Antonio City Council doesn’t take all their marching orders from the San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board. Counter the daily’s advice, San Antonio’s electeds voted today […]
Will SA’s Comprehensive Plan Scrap Community Rights?
Via NOWCastSA.com In direct contradiction of a city ordinance and the promise of the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan, city staffers are systematically eliminating long-standing neighborhood plans designed to protect the […]
VIDEO: Save San Antonio’s Coal Plants
‘Dirty’ Deely announces retirement at San Antonio Earth Day 2018. But pleads: “It’s not too late to save my little brother and sister!” San Antonio coal plant “Dirty” Deely made […]
In the Name of Berta Cacéres
Indigenous communities carry work of slain environmental activist Berta Cacéres’ forward by defending nature and health care in Honduras. Jeff Abbott On March 2, hundreds gathered in Honduras to commemorate […]
VIDEO: César E. Chávez March for Justice in San Antonio
¡ADELANTE! Videos from yesterday’s César E. Chávez March for Justice in San Antonio. Greg Harman Lining up for the march begins around minute 7:30 in clip one below. Other markers […]
PHOTO ESSAY: San Pedro Creek Improvement Project, Phase 1.1
Greg Harman ¶ San Pedro Creek Improvement Project‘s first phase will open to the public in San Antonio, Texas, with a dedication ceremony on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Deceleration has […]
VIDEO: March For Our Lives, San Antonio!
Greg Harman Students of San Antonio area schools made a powerful stand on the steps of City Hall today as part of the international March For Our Lives movement. With […]
China’s Censors Duped By Lantern Festival Riddles
Riddle Me This: How Chinese netizens outwitted China’s Cyberspace Administration with Lantern Festival Riddles. Oiwan Lam 浮世三千， 吾愛有三。 日，月與卿。 日為朝，月為暮， 卿為朝朝暮暮。 I love three things in this world. Sun, Moon […]
VIDEO: International Women’s Day, San Antonio
Start-to-finish livestream from today’s International Women’s Day March in San Antonio, Texas. Greg Harman Deceleration was proud to march today with newly minted and seasoned activists alike in the streets […]
Video: San Antonio ‘Climate Ready’ Town Hall
Greg Harman At the second official SA Climate Ready gathering on Saturday, San Antonio residents (and at least one straggler from Boerne) got together to talk about ways our city […]
Soap Works: Stopping Gentrification Downtown San Antonio
Greg Harman The winners and losers of the “Decade of Downtown” trumpeted by Julián Castro in 2010 continue to take shape across the center of the city, as residents navigate […]
VIDEO: Xicana poetics make the invisible visible
National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies 2018 Tejas Foco Conference Greg Harman SEGUIN, Texas—Before it was a hashtag, resistance was a necessary fact of life for millions. Whether against […]
Apocalyst: SAWS, Toxic Floods, & Canine Saviors
A Deceleration news summary of WTF happened this week. And maybe how to make it all better. (Week of 02.05.2018) Greg Harman Sprawl, What-Me-Worry? lawmakers, smog, and the big ass […]
The Birds and Dogs of Latinx Eco-Comix
Words by Marisol Cortez / Photos and Video by Greg Harman Last weekend, Deceleration tripped down to the Rio Grande Valley for the Latino Comics Expo, held in Brownsville—the southernmost city in […]
On the Border: Deaths Rising as Migration Falls by Nearly Half
The number of migrants who died crossing the United States-Mexico border in 2017 remained high, despite a 44 per cent decrease in border apprehensions reported by the US Border Patrol […]
Week Five, 2018: Bad Moons, Cedar War, & Owls for Peace
January 30, 2018 A roundup of the day’s headlines. Early risers can bark at the ‘Superbad’ moon It will be full. It will be blue. It will be super. And […]
Jan. 29, 2018: Hate Groups, Honey Bees & the 1%
January 29, 2018 A roundup of the day’s headlines. Want to breath better in San Antonio? Wait until summer “The worst scenario for an asthmatic would be winter in Texas,” […]