Greg Harman
QUITO, Ecuador—Within the first few months of the CIA-backed overthrow of Chilean socialist president Salvador Allende, an estimated 40,000 people had been detained by the military
Editor’s note: We’ve shared Kazu Haga’s work before on Deceleration (see “Why Defeating Trump Demands Nonviolence”). In fact, everything he’s written that I’ve come across
Symbols are the superstructure of society. Nations form and crust around creation myths. Wars are executed in pursuit of some (imagined) glorious past. Every person who lives under a flag
QUITO, Ecuador—In academia, the study of peace often falls inside the field of political science. For many observers and practitioners alike, the notion that politics can be described as
The experience threw a major tilt into my academic interests. My subsequent “discovery” of environmental peacemaking theory and practice shifted my thinking further. I began to consider how I could
This month Deceleration is traveling and reporting back! Greg will be in Ecuador for a three-week intensive course on environmental peacemaking, while I just returned from Detroit, where I attended
This past week the environmental humanities arm of Deceleration took two days off work and Xanax’ed our way through nightmare flights to/from Detroit, where we joined up with
The pace of dramatic and extremely damaging policy actions rolling out from the Trump Administration can be overwhelming and lead one to despair and withdrawal. We know; we feel it
Press Release:
March 4th, 2017, Amherst, MA – This morning at 9:01am a group of local residents locked
themselves to 55 gallon drums at the front entrance to the Bank
Kazu Haga/Waging Nonviolence
I admit, I laughed a little too. When I first saw videos of white nationalist Richard Spencer getting punched by a protester, I thought it was
Sure, pipelines are good for oil companies, but what about jobs related to preserving nature and culture?
Chip Colwell, University of Colorado Denver
On his fourth day as U.S.
