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ARTS: ‘They Want to Kill Greta Thunberg’

By Shelley Ettinger ● Arts and Letters ● July 7, 2025

A poem by Shelley Ettinger.

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

By James Courtney ● San Antonio ● June 26, 2025

A Deceleration Q&A with Union Leader Megan Navarro.

After Trump Guts OSHA, Republicans Attack Heat-Related Worker Safety Rules

By Inside Climate News ● Climate ● May 20, 2025

The Trump administration eviscerated the only agency tasked with studying worker health and safety. Now, Republicans have revived a plan to stop OSHA “overreach.” Advocates fear it could further endanger workers.

‘SUNAK’ (‘Awaken’) Music Video Release Celebrates Migration as a Birthright of All Beings

By Greg Harman ● Deceleration Video ● May 8, 2025

Ceiba ili’s new song, ‘Sunak,’ sung in Kotik and Spanish, has a buoyantly infectious flavor. Better yet: It is a jam with a message for our time.

‘Solidarity Forever’: International Worker’s Day Opens and Closes with Rallies in San Antonio, Texas

By Greg Harman ● Deceleration Video ● May 5, 2025

Against a backdrop of mass casualty embodied by the memorial to the 53 immigrants who died locked in a tractor trailer in 2022, organizers from a range of unions and worker-support organizations rallied crowds across San Antonio last week.

ICE Abuses, Punishing Floods Show the Cesar Chavez March in the RGV is Still Necessary

By Gaige Davila ● Texas ● April 29, 2025

Even with their communities under assault, local elected leaders rising in solidarity are hard to find.

Is This a ‘Movement Moment’ Rising to Swamp Trump?

By Mark Engler, Paul Engler & Waging Nonviolence ● Praxis ● April 25, 2025

How to recognize the characteristics that make for powerful whirlwinds of protest against injustice and tyranny.

Families Resisting Trump Efforts to ‘Eviscerate’ Rights for Students with Disabilities

By truthout ● Human Rights ● April 24, 2025

Disability rights advocates are filing lawsuits as students, teachers and parents organize to protect education.

LGBTQ+ Rights: To Survive Attacks on Trans And Queer Texans Stronger Communities Are Needed

By Kit O’Connell ● Preparing to Protect ● February 28, 2025

Nonprofits that serve LGBTQ+ Texans are struggling with the limits of the old playbooks, while fighting renewed attacks on transgender and queer rights.

Choosing Democracy: How to Crash Fascism and Build a New World (from Your Living Room)

By Marisol Cortez ● Praxis ● February 13, 2025

‘People were frozen, I knew that. It wasn’t the stunned shock of 2016; this time around, it was exhaustion. But it also felt like people were thinking. What we’d done before hadn’t worked. What would? No one knew. Yet.’