Happy MLK Day, amid fallout from the churning sickness of white nationalist grievance that finally spewed forth in the attempted auto-coup of January 6, 2021. In that context, we redouble our efforts to topple America’s centuries-old, color-based caste system rooted in colonial occupation, insisting that Black Lives Matter: locally, globally, […]
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TAKE ACTION: Attend First SA Climate Ready Committees Meeting
After a two-year odyssey creating San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan—political delays in adoption, followed by a year of silence—the SA Climate Ready’s new committees are finally assembling and seeking community input. On Tuesday night, two committees charged with guiding City climate policies in the years ahead will meet […]
TAKE ACTION: A Community-Led Climate/COVID-19 Recovery
On Saturday, Join an Online Conversation to Help Develop a Community-Led Climate/COVID-19 Recovery for San Antonio. {EDITOR’S NOTE, 10.30.2020: Thanks to all who attended. View full event video here.} A recovery plan that is capable of meeting the challenges of today’s many colliding crises must center the needs of those […]
TAKE ACTION: Stand With Jasper Mobile Home Park Residents
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Fabiola Torralba, 210-551-9030, fabiola.ochoa.torralba@gmail.com JASPER MOBILE HOME PARK RESIDENTS THREATENED TO HAVE HOMES FORCIBLY REMOVED ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2020 On Friday, August 21, 2020 at 8 a.m., Jasper Mobile Home Park residents (6725 Walzem Rd 78239) request the presence and support of the public […]
TAKE ACTION: Drive for Black Lives!
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! August 1st is the day for the Nationwide March for Black Lives Matter in Washington, D.C., with solidarity actions happening across the nation. San Antonio will organize a car caravan that is also a food drive, hosted by San Antonio Coalition for Police Accountability. Saturday is also […]
TAKE ACTION: Support Local Black Lives Matter Movement
Here are ways to support the movement for Black lives here in SATX—including taking the streets, organizing around local demands, and pressing forward toward prison abolition and alternatives to policing. Immediate-Term: Upcoming Calendar of Protests Here are all #BLACKLIVESMATTER protests we can identify in SATX over the next couple of […]
TAKE ACTION: COVID-19 Recovery & Utility Justice Town Hall
UPDATE (9:24PM): THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. NATIONAL SIERRA CLUB IS PUTTING ALL OF ITS COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH ON PAUSE TO HELP KEEP OUR FOCUS ON THE WORK OF BLACK LIVES MATTER ACROSS THE NATION. We know pollution kills. We know that utility rates aren’t fair. And we know that […]
TAKE ACTION: Carrizo Comecrudo Tribunal for Human Rights
The upcoming Carrizo Comecrudo Tribunal for Human Rights connects the dots between petrochemical development, violence against Indigenous women, environmental justice, border militarization, and migration. Marisol Cortez When land or community wellbeing has suffered injustice, we often look to the courts to redress any rights violations. But what if the corporate […]
TAKE ACTION: ‘Words for Birds’ Writing Workshop
Bird is still the word! Join us for the 12th annual Words For Birds, a two-part event celebrating all things avian for National Poetry Month. While the current public health emergency prevents our usual in-person reading at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center, this year’s Words for Birds reading will continue in […]
TAKE ACTION: Join “Return to Sun and Wind” Live on Saturday
Introducing The Aerocene Project to San Antonio: a collaborative open-source movement cultivating fossil-free mobility grounded in planetary ethics and atmospheric sensing. Marisol Cortez Deceleration is excited to roll out some new online broadcasting capacities this weekend! Join us as we collaborate with Krystal Paul and Fabiola Torralba of the East […]
TAKE ACTION: SA Says No to Border Security Expo
Greg Harman On Wednesday, March 11, residents of San Antonio and around the region will gather outside the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center to decry the Border Security Expo. The now-annual happening describes itself as “the premier event that attracts international and domestic government leaders and law enforcement officials charged […]
TAKE ACTION: ‘The Music of Her Rivers’
“I speak for this river carrying the stillborn, the dying — this water that quenches the thirst of bosque, mergansers, warblers, and ash-throated flycatchers.” At Deceleration, we’re big fans of poetry that connects people to the land, to the air, to the spirits of our deeply intertwined families, this dance […]