human rights Archives – Deceleration

Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex

By Greg Harman ● Deceleration Video ● December 16, 2025

A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising human rights catastrophe in the United States.

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ACLU: ICE Detainees at Camp East Montana Beaten, Threatened with Illegal Removal to Mexico

By Cindy Ramirez & El Paso Matters ● Human Rights ● December 16, 2025

Camp East Montana, a massive tent ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, opened in August and now holds about 2,700 detainees.

As Global Climate Talks Fumble, Texas Campaigns Target Companies Powering Genocide and Ecocide

By Marisol Cortez ● Solutions ● November 25, 2025

With COP30 delegates unable to agree on a roadmap to end fossil fuels and deforestation, Texas activists escalate boycotts of companies profiting off the destruction of Indigenous lives and lands, from Palestine to Amazonia.

PODCAST: Antiwar Vets Urge Soldiers to Claim their ‘Right to Refuse’ Illegal and Immoral Orders

By Marisol Cortez ● Human Rights ● November 13, 2025

In a community conversation closing out a gallery exhibit organized by ABOUT Face: Veterans Against the War, panelists from Texas and California discuss the histories of veteran activism against war and occupation and why soldiers today have a “right to refuse” Trump administration orders to deploy against US cities.

PODCAST: Remembering Jack Elder—Activist, Peacemaker, Defender of Human Rights & La Madre Tierra

By Marisol Cortez ● Human Rights ● September 20, 2025

In a moment convulsed by questions of who we remember and how, we choose to commemorate the life of our friend and comrade Jack Elder (1943-2025).

20 Years Later: Hurricane Katrina Revealed Why Climate Justice Must Include the Right to Free Movement

By Faye Matthews, Andrei Greenwood & Resilience ● Community Voices ● August 29, 2025

Taproot Earth believes that the right to remain in your generational and ancestral home, to migrate out of harm’s way, and to return to your home are basic, inalienable, human rights.

‘Vanishing Ice, Melting ICE’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review

By Deceleration Staff ● Arts and Letters ● August 29, 2025

Deceleration’s first quarterly creative review taps into deep wells of community talent responding to the vanishing ice of warming seas and recent ICE vanishings of our family, friends, and neighbors.

ASLE 2025: Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance—From Barton Springs Attack to Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’

By Kit O’Connell ● Arts and Letters ● August 14, 2025

Amid rising attacks on trans people, ideas from ‘queer ecology’ can light the way toward an alternative environmental politics capable of honoring ‘femme-coded’ ways of thriving beside and beyond our waterways.

ASLE 2025: As Attacks on Unhoused Increase, Kaia Sand Archives Alternatives to Criminalization of ‘Unwanted Persons’

By Michelle Yates & Marisol Cortez ● Arts and Letters ● August 13, 2025

In her plenary presentation at last month’s gathering of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Kaia Sand detailed the many ways we construct homeless people as “unwanted persons,” but also the creativity embodied in alternative first responder systems that enact “care work without violence.”

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

By Arturo Madrid ● Community Voices ● July 16, 2025

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.