Human Rights - Deceleration (Page 5)

VideoVIDEO: Heat Emergency—A Forum on Extreme Heat, Public Health, & Community Response

Public health experts and community workers convened this week at Deceleration’s ‘Heat Emergency’ forum to connect the dots between extreme heat’s causes, local impacts, and how best to interrupt the gathering crisis and (hopefully) save some lives.

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Apr 2024

VideoVIDEO: Heat Emergency—A Forum on Extreme Heat, Public Health, & Community Response

Extreme Heat Could Have Killed Dozens in San Antonio During 2023, Says SAMMinistries CEO

SAMMinistries has tracked deaths within the unhoused community for years. Their CEO thinks extreme heat may have directly caused dozens of deaths and contributed to even more during 2023’s unprecedented heatwave. There is no local research initiative that can prove them right or wrong.

By Greg Harman

/ 11 Apr 2024

Extreme Heat Could Have Killed Dozens in San Antonio During 2023, Says SAMMinistries CEO

VideoVIDEO: Easter Vigil Highlights Ongoing Eviction of Migratory Birds at Brackenridge Park

Ongoing City of San Antonio efforts to displace migratory birds runs counter to the sustained message from park visitors and neighbors in favor of protecting the area’s ecology—including migratory birds.

By Greg Harman

/ 4 Apr 2024

VideoVIDEO: Easter Vigil Highlights Ongoing Eviction of Migratory Birds at Brackenridge Park

Right-Wing San Antonio Bloggers Busted for Drug Possession During Militia Border Tour

Near Eagle Pass, Texas officers arrested Celeste April Sparks and Jerry J. Pena-Ahuyon for drug possession after receiving information that someone in a caravan was pointing a gun at migrants, DPS report says.

By Francesca D’Annunzio

/ 26 Feb 2024

Right-Wing San Antonio Bloggers Busted for Drug Possession During Militia Border Tour

Centering Housing as a Human Right in the San Antonio Struggle

For most of the world, housing is at least understood as a human right. Yet in the richest nation on earth—and in San Antonio—the struggle continues for both housing justice action and agreement.

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Jan 2024

Centering Housing as a Human Right in the San Antonio Struggle

‘Racist Gutter Slugs’ Swarm Florida Streets After Yet Another Anti-Black Mass Shooting

Neo-Nazis seek to fill void left by Proud Boys with calls for violence, even as prominent Republicans deny ‘Nazis elephant in their midst.’

By Common Dreams

/ 11 Sep 2023

‘Racist Gutter Slugs’ Swarm Florida Streets After Yet Another Anti-Black Mass Shooting

‘His Name Was Albert’: Living & Dying in San Antonio’s Climate Shocks

On August 12, 2023, after enduring nearly a month of triple-digit temperatures Garcia, at age 56, passed away. Residents are now seeking to hold city and state agencies accountable for his death.

By Greg Harman

/ 4 Sep 2023

‘His Name Was Albert’: Living & Dying in San Antonio’s Climate Shocks

Albert Garcia, Subject of Exhaustive Deceleration Reporting Project, Found Dead

A year-long effort to get Garcia off the streets exposed shortcomings of local and state practices—even as the extreme cold of Winter Storm Uri took both of Garcia’s feet. Now extreme heat likely contributed to his death.

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Aug 2023

Albert Garcia, Subject of Exhaustive Deceleration Reporting Project, Found Dead

Disaster & Disability: Federal Lawsuit Spotlights Lesser Seen Climate Challenges

As many as one in four U.S. residents live with a disability, increasing their risk of injury or death from climate-driven disasters. Yet disaster planning efforts have largely failed to account for the needs of those with greater physical or cognitive challenges.

By Greg Harman

/ 12 May 2023

Disaster & Disability: Federal Lawsuit Spotlights Lesser Seen Climate Challenges

VideoVIDEO: ‘Decolonize the Future’ with Arturo Escobar

A community conversation with Colombian decolonial scholar/activist Arturo Escobar, produced by Deceleration in partnership with UTSA.

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Apr 2023

VideoVIDEO: ‘Decolonize the Future’ with Arturo Escobar

Volunteers Repairing Arson Damage at South San Antonio Migrant Memorial

44-year-old Estela Banda said she was inspired by God to set the site ablaze, according to the San Antonio Express News. Angelita Olvera said a total of six of the 54 crosses were destroyed and flags were burned.

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Nov 2022

March For Our Lives (Again) Taking to San Antonio Streets

Greg Harman Four years ago, thousands of young people and adults flooded downtown San Antonio streets demanding gun reform in the wake of the mass killing at Sutherland Springs and

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Jun 2022