Human Rights - Deceleration (Page 3)

Texas Voters Beat Back Book Banners in Katy, Fort Bend, & Mansfield ISD Elections

Texas school districts have banned hundreds of titles over the past few years, leading the country in banning books.

By Chris Walker

/ 8 May 2025

Texas Voters Beat Back Book Banners in Katy, Fort Bend, & Mansfield ISD Elections

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

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.

By Greg Harman

/ 5 May 2025

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

Greg Abbott Could Defund San Marcos Police, Flood Control Over Resolution Decrying Israeli Violence

If the resolution passes, San Marcos would be the first city council in Texas to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. But the move could cost them funds that support expectant mothers and public safety.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 3 May 2025

Greg Abbott Could Defund San Marcos Police, Flood Control Over Resolution Decrying Israeli Violence

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

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

By Gaige Davila

/ 29 Apr 2025

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

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

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

By Truthout

/ 24 Apr 2025

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

Texas ‘Mask Blocs’ Struggle to Fill COVID-19 Health Gaps as Federal and State Attacks Ramp Up

Volunteer- and anarchist-led groups are working overtime to keep their communities safe from COVID-19 even as Texas lawmakers debate a ban on masks and a warming planet promises more pandemics on the way.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 9 Apr 2025

Texas ‘Mask Blocs’ Struggle to Fill COVID-19 Health Gaps as Federal and State Attacks Ramp Up

Extreme Heat in Texas Prisons ‘Plainly Unconstitutional,’ But Judge Stops Short of Requiring A/C

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

By Texas Tribune

/ 2 Apr 2025

Extreme Heat in Texas Prisons ‘Plainly Unconstitutional,’ But Judge Stops Short of Requiring A/C

Why the U.S. Left Needs to Get Ukraine’s History Correct and Deepen Its Solidarity with the Victims of Russian Violence

More than ten years after Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution and an estimated million lives lost to Russia’s war on Ukraine, mischaracterizations continue.

By Truthout

/ 18 Mar 2025

Why the U.S. Left Needs to Get Ukraine’s History Correct and Deepen Its Solidarity with the Victims of Russian Violence

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

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

By Kit O’Connell

/ 28 Feb 2025

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

Texas Colleges Rolled Over For Anti-DEI Bill—And Set Themselves Up for Broader Attacks

University administrators’ rush to obey not only abandoned targeted faculty and students—it also permitted an insidious slide toward eliminating entire fields of study.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 11 Feb 2025

Texas Colleges Rolled Over For Anti-DEI Bill—And Set Themselves Up for Broader Attacks

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

Disability Rights: ‘We Don’t Want to Go Into the Fetal Position and Do Nothing’

Legendary disability rights organizer Bob Kafka and Cathy Cranston speak with Deceleration about the incoming 89th session of the Texas Legislature and inauguration of a president promising cuts to vital services.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 22 Jan 2025

Disability Rights: ‘We Don’t Want to Go Into the Fetal Position and Do Nothing’