Democracy - Deceleration (Page 4)

‘Not Everyone Can Leave’: Survival Advice from Trans Teens in Texas

Media often focus on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t leave?

By Marisol Cortez

/ 13 Nov 2024

‘Not Everyone Can Leave’: Survival Advice from Trans Teens in Texas

How to Prepare Yourself Now for Another Trump Presidency

The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 7 Nov 2024

How to Prepare Yourself Now for Another Trump Presidency

Five Ways to Approach the 2024 Election with a Movement Mindset

For those angsting over how to cast their vote, consider these insights on the role elections play in building long-term power.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 29 Oct 2024

Five Ways to Approach the 2024 Election with a Movement Mindset

VIDEO: What If Trump Wins Again? (An Action Plan)

Choose Democracy recently launched a set of online tools and strategy games to help us prepare emotionally and strategically for whatever might happen this November and after. The tools invite participants to explore their reactions and options, to plot their own route through uncharted territory.

By Convergence

/ 20 Aug 2024

VIDEO: What If Trump Wins Again? (An Action Plan)

Biden 2.0 v. Trump 2.0: The Likely Climate Impact

A Carbon Brief analysis suggests a victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could lead to an additional 4B tons of US emissions by 2030—enough to tank global climate efforts and erase last five years of gains from renewables.

By Carbon Brief

/ 27 Mar 2024

Biden 2.0 v. Trump 2.0: The Likely Climate Impact

Webzine ‘Against the Ecofascist Creep’ Smashes Dangerous Delusions

Anti-Creep Climate Initiative utilizes Marvel characters to educate public about the dangerous fallacies behind fascistic thinking on global environmental challenges. April Anson, Cassie Galentine, Shane Hall, Alex Menrisky, & Bruno

By Greg Harman

/ 19 May 2022

Climate Justice Means Reparations

Direct payments, Green Climate Fund assistance, and torching of tax havens are necessary to begin repairing the damage of slavery and colonialism that set the world on course with destruction, writes Olúfémi Táíwò in his book, ‘Reconsidering Reparations.’

By Greg Harman

/ 3 May 2022

The Secret to Defeating Putin (*And Other Petrostate Autocrats)

We should be in agony today—people are dying because they want to live in a democracy, want to determine their own affairs. But that agony should, and can, produce real change.

By Greg Harman

/ 7 Mar 2022

The Secret to Defeating Putin (*And Other Petrostate Autocrats)

Coup Averted, La Lucha Continua. But First: Breathe.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final dispatch from a group called Choose Democracy, who we introduced to readers in an October post just before the historic (and traumatic) 2020

By Marisol Cortez

/ 22 Jan 2021

Coup Averted, La Lucha Continua. But First: Breathe.

‘Ready to Mobilize’: 500+ Demonstrations Planned to Make Every Vote Count

San Antonio Rally to ‘Protect the Results’ as National Movement Mulls Mass Action. As the nightmare scenario many have been warning about for months came true early Wednesday with President

By Greg Harman

/ 4 Nov 2020

‘Ready to Mobilize’: 500+ Demonstrations Planned to Make Every Vote Count

Election or Coup? How to (Really) Stop Trump from Stealing the Election

EDITOR’S NOTE: Few pundits are expecting a clear winner from the 2020 presidential election on November 4. Most expect that sorting out mail-in ballots and legal challenges will take

By Marisol Cortez

/ 29 Oct 2020

Election or Coup? How to (Really) Stop Trump from Stealing the Election

EP05: Utility Debt Post-COVID & SA Poet Laureate “Vocab”

Deceleration‘s fifth broadcast for the Covid-19 era in San Antonio asks what comes after the pandemic in terms of our City-owned utilities. While shutoff suspensions today are good thing,

By Greg Harman

/ 11 Apr 2020

EP05: Utility Debt Post-COVID & SA Poet Laureate “Vocab”