Human Rights - Deceleration (Page 5)

Opposing Jewish National Fund, Dallas Protesters Plant ‘Tree of Life’ Against Genocidal Greenwashing

A dozen arrests and days of creative resistance spotlight determination to continue challenging Palestinian deaths and displacement, even in a new era promising increased crackdowns on protest.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 22 Nov 2024

Opposing Jewish National Fund, Dallas Protesters Plant ‘Tree of Life’ Against Genocidal Greenwashing

Fighting for the Climate Under Authoritarianism Regimes—A Q&A with Yeb Saño

Former chief climate diplomat for the Philippines Yeb Saño discusses his work with Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the challenges climate activists face under repressive governments.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 22 Nov 2024

Fighting for the Climate Under Authoritarianism Regimes—A Q&A with Yeb Saño

‘Not Everyone Can Leave’: Survival Advice from Trans Teens in Texas

Media often focus on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t leave?

By Marisol Cortez

/ 13 Nov 2024

‘Not Everyone Can Leave’: Survival Advice from Trans Teens in Texas

A Reelected Trump Expected to Severely Restrict Already Shrinking Protest Freedoms

Experts raise alarms on Trump’s combative language and history of executive overreach, as well as GOP influence on state legislation criminalizing protest and free speech.

By Inside Climate News

/ 4 Nov 2024

A Reelected Trump Expected to Severely Restrict Already Shrinking Protest Freedoms

Trump’s Promised Mass Deportations Would Hurt Families—and ‘Decimate’ the U.S. Food Supply Chain

If the Republican candidate carries out his immigration agenda, who will run America’s farms?

By Grist

/ 17 Oct 2024

Trump’s Promised Mass Deportations Would Hurt Families—and ‘Decimate’ the U.S. Food Supply Chain

A Year of Grief, a Year of Solidarity: San Antonio Movement to Free Palestine Puts October 7 in Historical Context

A Deceleration Q&A with Alex Birnel of San Antonio for Justice in Palestine.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 11 Oct 2024

A Year of Grief, a Year of Solidarity: San Antonio Movement to Free Palestine Puts October 7 in Historical Context

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)

VIDEO: 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

VIDEO: 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