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Hundreds of Students Walk Out of Classes in San Antonio to Protest Trump Actions

By Greg Harman ● Deceleration Video ● February 6, 2025

Students told Deceleration that they understand they are organizing for the rights of their own generation as well as those who will follow.

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Messages from Jess’s Last Days—A Social Autopsy

By Marisol Cortez ● San Antonio ● January 16, 2025

A close reading of the last week of Jessica Witzel’s life reveals predictable failures by public agencies, facilitated by the dehumanization that housed residents often direct at their unhoused neighbors. It also reveals possibilities for neighbors banding together to meet all residents’ ‘true level of need.’

End of SAWS WaterSaver Rewards Program Prompts Disappointment, Reflection

By Rachel Cywinski ● San Antonio ● January 15, 2025

As climate drought intensifies, San Antonio Water System’s 2025 termination of a conservation program popular among local eco-yard proponents highlights tensions between conservation and accessibility in the utility’s struggles for future water security.

Texas Supreme Court Scrutinizes San Antonio’s Bird & Tree Removals In Religious Liberty Debate

By Greg Harman & Kit O’Connell ● San Antonio ● December 6, 2024

While a legal decision that could reanimate a federal lawsuit may take until summer, the City of San Antonio is expected to move ahead with tree removals at Brackenridge Park as soon as it gets clearance from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

In San Antonio’s Metal Recycling Code Struggle, Fenceline Residents Are Caught Up in Tensions Between Industry and Regulators

By Marisol Cortez ● San Antonio ● November 12, 2024

Despite its technical packaging, efforts to reform metal recycling codes reveal the complex and emotional political dynamics that produce—but also disrupt—environmental injustice.

Hundreds of Students Walk Out of Classes in San Antonio to Protest Trump Actions

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Messages from Jess’s Last Days—A Social Autopsy

End of SAWS WaterSaver Rewards Program Prompts Disappointment, Reflection

Texas Supreme Court Scrutinizes San Antonio’s Bird & Tree Removals In Religious Liberty Debate

In San Antonio’s Metal Recycling Code Struggle, Fenceline Residents Are Caught Up in Tensions Between Industry and Regulators

Texas Supreme Court to Take Up Religious Liberty Question on Brackenridge Park Lawsuit

‘I Dreamed I Was Replacing People’s Air Conditioners’: Speaking with Heat Pump Promotora Debbie Ponce

Scorching 129 Heat Index Recorded Downtown San Antonio During Wednesday Heat Alert

How Not to Get ‘Cooked’: Chicago Heat Wave Doc Provides Health Lessons for Overheating ‘Hoods

Stop the Attack on Migratory Birds in San Antonio—Eggs and Chicks Are in Those Nests