Human Rights - Deceleration (Page 5)

VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

Last Saturday, around 50 people gathered beneath an elder oak tree in San Pedro Springs Park, part of the headwaters complex of the San Antonio River. They gathered to discuss

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Sep 2024

VIDEO: The Land and Its Peoples: Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism from Texas to Palestine

VIDEO: Beehive Collective brings ‘True Cost of Coal’ and ‘Mesoamérica Resiste’ to Texas

This month opened with a banger of a presentation at Galeria E.V.A. when the Beehive Collective, the renowned arts and storytelling project now touring the world arrived in San Antonio. They unfurled massive hand-illustrated banners telling big stories. Like how about the essential story of coal in

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Aug 2024

VIDEO: Beehive Collective brings ‘True Cost of Coal’ and ‘Mesoamérica Resiste’ to Texas

This Secret Club of Super-Rich Christians Are Ready to Rule Over You Now

Owners of popular retailers like Hobby Lobby, Uline, and Jockey apparel are funding the rise of Christian nationalism.

By ProPublica

/ 16 Jul 2024

This Secret Club of Super-Rich Christians Are Ready to Rule Over You Now

Anti-Trans Disinfo Creeping on Climate Justice Spaces (Part 2 of 2)

Climate denialists have long deployed the nefarious practice of ‘manufacturing doubt’ to undermine public understanding of the scientific consensus on global warming. Now anti-trans movements are borrowing the technique to poison trans healthcare research and ban care.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 21 Jun 2024

Anti-Trans Disinfo Creeping on Climate Justice Spaces (Part 2 of 2)

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