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‘Power for Palestine’ Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio’s Role in Genocide

Six local orgs announced a new coalition targeting San Antonio’s material support for Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine—and to grieve more than 65,000 deaths since October 7, 2023.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 10 Oct 2025

‘Power for Palestine’ Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio’s Role in Genocide

Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe Planning Indigenous-Led Higher Ed In Shadow of DEI Crackdowns

White supremacist movements seeking to eradicate the study of race and racism are driven by a fear of discomfort, says Juan Mancias, tribal chair of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas. That’s also where the healing we all need resides.

By Greg Harman

/ 29 Jan 2025

Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe Planning Indigenous-Led Higher Ed In Shadow of DEI Crackdowns

A Year of Grief, a Year of Solidarity: San Antonio Movement to Free Palestine Puts October 7 in Historical Context

A Deceleration Q&A with Alex Birnel of San Antonio for Justice in Palestine.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 11 Oct 2024

A Year of Grief, a Year of Solidarity: San Antonio Movement to Free Palestine Puts October 7 in Historical Context

VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

Last Saturday, around 50 people gathered beneath an elder oak tree in San Pedro Springs Park, part of the headwaters complex of the San Antonio River. They gathered to discuss

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Sep 2024

VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

Welcome to the People’s University for Palestine

The People’s University for Palestine is a new popular education project that compiles resources for educators and community members who see learning and teaching about genocide in Gaza as central to halting it.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 3 Sep 2024

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Peace and Dignity Journeys Offering Prayers for the Intercontinental Community

Though officially begun in 1992, the routes run by the Peace and Dignity Journeys trace an unbroken ancestral history of migration and ceremony across Abya Yala that continues more than 500 year later. A report back from the prayer run as it moved its way south through San Pedro Park in San Antonio.

By Danielle López

/ 11 Aug 2024

Peace and Dignity Journeys Offering Prayers for the Intercontinental Community

How Land is a ‘Fellow Victim and Hostage’ to Racial Capitalism

‘Rooted’ author Brea Baker talks with The Emancipator about America’s legacy of land theft from Black and Indigenous people

By The Emancipator

/ 1 Aug 2024

How Land is a ‘Fellow Victim and Hostage’ to Racial Capitalism

Unearthing the White Supremacist in the Basement

Unflinching honestly about our ancestors’ involvement in slavery, lynchings, and other forms of white supremacist violence is necessary to interrupt today’s resurgence of racist killings in the U.S.

By Annie Hartnett

/ 10 Oct 2023

Unearthing the White Supremacist in the Basement

Tribes Responding to Climate’s ‘Slow-Moving Tsunami’ Threatening Native Lands

The Hoh, Quinault, Quileute, and Makah Tribes have coped with storms and tsunamis battering the coasts of the Pacific Northwest for thousands of years. Now, threatened by rising sea levels and other climate impacts, they are evolving to meet new dangers to their villages and history.

By Terri Hansen

/ 18 Sep 2023

Tribes Responding to Climate’s ‘Slow-Moving Tsunami’ Threatening Native Lands

VideoVIDEO: ‘Decolonize the Future’ with Arturo Escobar

A community conversation with Colombian decolonial scholar/activist Arturo Escobar, produced by Deceleration in partnership with UTSA.

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Apr 2023

VideoVIDEO: ‘Decolonize the Future’ with Arturo Escobar

‘Against Terricide’: Arturo Escobar Speaking in San Antonio on Decolonial Movements

Renowned Latin American scholar-activist, Arturo Escobar, brings a vision integrating human communities and the Earth in the face of climate crisis.

By Greg Harman

/ 30 Mar 2023

‘Against Terricide’: Arturo Escobar Speaking in San Antonio on Decolonial Movements

Bridge to the Ancestors: Indigenous Run Decries Colonial Violence in Texas

Racist mascots. Fossil fuel extraction. Murdered and missing indigenous women. Native runners highlight the high cost of continuing colonial domination in the United States and along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

By Greg Harman

/ 28 Mar 2023

Bridge to the Ancestors: Indigenous Run Decries Colonial Violence in Texas