Human Rights - Deceleration (Page 3)

‘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

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

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.

By Faye Matthews

/ 29 Aug 2025

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

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

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.

By Deceleration Staff

/ 29 Aug 2025

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

Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

A coalition of organizations led residents and media across San Antonio’s ‘red line of inequity,’ spotlighting the overwhelming burden of polluting industries that persist south of Highway 90.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 27 Aug 2025

Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

What Homeland Security’s Social Media Says about White Womanhood & American Empire

“There’s a deliberate kind of deception being practiced here that is really cynical and really dangerous,” a historian told the 19th.

By The 19th

/ 20 Aug 2025

What Homeland Security’s Social Media Says about White Womanhood & American Empire

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

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

By Michelle Yates

/ 13 Aug 2025

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

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

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.

By Arturo Madrid

/ 16 Jul 2025

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

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

A Deceleration Q&A with Union Leader Megan Navarro.

By James Courtney

/ 26 Jun 2025

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

Housing Insecurity: Extremity of Federal Attacks on Social Services Require a Coordinated Response, Local Leaders Say

‘Real solutions are not cheap.’ Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Calvert presents plan for 3,000 additional Permanent Affordable Housing units—and commits to tracking (and preventing) heat-related deaths.

By Greg Harman

/ 24 May 2025

Housing Insecurity: Extremity of Federal Attacks on Social Services Require a Coordinated Response, Local Leaders Say

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

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.

By Inside Climate News

/ 20 May 2025

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

To Force Vote on Gaza Ceasefire—A First in Texas—San Marcos Activists Ran Their Own City Council Candidate

Even though the measure failed under withering threats from Governor Greg Abbott, organizers say the struggle for Palestinian liberation in this small college town has had positive cascading effects for other justice struggles.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 16 May 2025

To Force Vote on Gaza Ceasefire—A First in Texas—San Marcos Activists Ran Their Own City Council Candidate

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