Deceleration (Page 7)

Texas Gerrymandering Fight Reveals Actions of an Autocrat—And What it Takes to Defeat One

Do not obey.

By Greg Harman

/ 11 Aug 2025

Texas Gerrymandering Fight Reveals Actions of an Autocrat—And What it Takes to Defeat One

ASLE 2025: Birds, Barrios, Borders, & Books—Chicanx Poetics and Publishing from the Belly of the Beast

Deceleration assembled a panel of South Texas writer-activists at the 16th convening of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment to explore what it means to write and publish for Earth protection and human rights in a time of authoritarian cruelty.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 6 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: Birds, Barrios, Borders, & Books—Chicanx Poetics and Publishing from the Belly of the Beast

CPS Energy Board Must Fulfill its Community Solar Promise

To fulfill its commitment to the city’s most vulnerable residents, CPS Energy must launch its community solar program and restart the residential solar program it abandoned three years ago.

By DeeDee Belmares

/ 23 Jul 2025

CPS Energy Board Must Fulfill its Community Solar Promise

Hanging On In Tragedy-Stricken Texas Hill Country: ‘I Think We’re Gonna Stay’

The Richardsons are among the lucky in Kerr County, at the epicenter of ‘flash flood alley,’ who narrowly survived the river’s sudden rise.

By Candice Bernd

/ 22 Jul 2025

Hanging On In Tragedy-Stricken Texas Hill Country: ‘I Think We’re Gonna Stay’

Arturo Madrid: On the Responsibility of Latin@ Academics, Artists, and Cultural Workers

A preeminent Latino scholar issues an urgent call to his colleagues—and to all of us—to get educated on our rights, vocally assert them, share information about threats as they emerge, and stand in active solidarity with all targeted groups.

By Arturo Madrid

/ 16 Jul 2025

Arturo Madrid: On the Responsibility of Latin@ Academics, Artists, and Cultural Workers

What Our Pro-Democracy Movement Should Be Learning from Nature

We need to learn to fly like bees and thread like spiders, writes conflict transformation expert John Paul Lederach.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 14 Jul 2025

What Our Pro-Democracy Movement Should Be Learning from Nature

Punk Power, People Power: Las Hijas de la Madre are Perfecting Art as Resistance

As the Latinx feminist punk band drops singles and gears up to release a multifaceted album project, Deceleration takes a dive into the collective’s work and ethos.

By James Courtney

/ 9 Jul 2025

Punk Power, People Power: Las Hijas de la Madre are Perfecting Art as Resistance

From North Texas Heat Illness into Deadly Hill Country Flooding

The dark side of the Governor Abbott’s ‘Texas Miracle’ is manifesting in our bodies and shared disasters as heat and climate disasters increase.

By Caprice Capri

/ 7 Jul 2025

From North Texas Heat Illness into Deadly Hill Country Flooding

ARTS: ‘They Want to Kill Greta Thunberg’

A poem by Shelley Ettinger.

By Shelley Ettinger

/ 7 Jul 2025

ARTS: ‘They Want to Kill Greta Thunberg’

Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf States, Biodiversity—But First Up: American Samoa

The U.S. military is a major interest in this new extractive industry, which is poised to emerge both off- and on-shore.

By Elyse Hauser

/ 1 Jul 2025

Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf States, Biodiversity—But First Up: American Samoa

Discipline & ‘Delusion’: Key Lessons from the Robert E. Lee Tenants Union Victory in San Antonio

A Deceleration Q&A with Union Leader Megan Navarro.

By James Courtney

/ 26 Jun 2025

Discipline & ‘Delusion’: Key Lessons from the Robert E. Lee Tenants Union Victory in San Antonio

Is This Our American Spring? How Nonviolent Protest is Accelerating Across the United States

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 13 Jun 2025

Is This Our American Spring? How Nonviolent Protest is Accelerating Across the United States