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VideoVIDEO: As Matamoros Tent Camp Swells, a Cry for Support

Greg Harman BROWNSVILLE, Texas—As the number of asylum seekers crowded in a Matamoros tent camp swells across the river from Brownsville, ordinary people from a range of community aid

By Greg Harman

/ 29 Feb 2020

VideoVIDEO: As Matamoros Tent Camp Swells, a Cry for Support

Weekly Witness: Asylum Seekers Forced into ‘Boxcars in the Sky’

Since November 2019, under a new program called Asylum Cooperative Agreement, the U.S. government has shipped 536 asylum-seekers to Honduras and El Salvador in what witnesses call “boxcars

By Marisol Cortez

/ 15 Feb 2020

Weekly Witness: Asylum Seekers Forced into ‘Boxcars in the Sky’

TAKE ACTION: Witness at the Border to Restore Asylum

Attend: Witness at the Border to Restore Asylum: Amor, No Odio LOVE, NOT HATE 4-day event Friday, Feb 14 – Monday, Feb 17 The Muslim Ban…Family Separation…Children in

By Greg Harman

/ 15 Feb 2020

TAKE ACTION: Witness at the Border to Restore Asylum

VIDEO: How Border Enforcement Hurts Children

Hurts may not always be visible, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t intended, panelists say. Greg Harman This week, a handful of parents were allowed to fly into

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Jan 2020

VIDEO: How Border Enforcement Hurts Children

Year in Review: Latin America’s ‘Revolt of the Dispossessed’

In 2019, the people’s struggle against neoliberalism gained ground across Latin America. Roger Harris A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823

By Greg Harman

/ 28 Dec 2019

Year in Review: Latin America’s ‘Revolt of the Dispossessed’

A Perfect Texas Storm: Climate, Migration, and Eco-Fascism

By Annie H. Hartnett In one of my earliest memories, I am standing in front of my house on the coast of Mississippi watching the waves roil and swell, surging

By Marisol Cortez

/ 17 Sep 2019

A Perfect Texas Storm: Climate, Migration, and Eco-Fascism

El Paso Shooting: Not Mental Illness, Not Even Guns

What makes El Paso shooting feel different is its utter expectedness, following as it did on the heels of Trump’s racist attacks on Brown and Black Congresswomen, the ominous “send her back” chanting that followed, and the endless, ongoing dehumanization and internment of migrants and children arriv

By Marisol Cortez

/ 10 Aug 2019

El Paso Shooting: Not Mental Illness, Not Even Guns

Eyewitness Venezuela Tour Makes a Stop in San Antonio

Editor’s Note: Deceleration is pleased to offer this guest column by Jovanni Reyes, a longtime anti-war voice in San Antonio, which chronicles Gloria La Riva’s local stop

By Marisol Cortez

/ 9 Jul 2019

Eyewitness Venezuela Tour Makes a Stop in San Antonio

Anti-Protest Bill Passes Texas Senate

Outrage Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Bill That Would Hit Pipeline Protestors With Up to 10 Years in Prison Jake Johnson/Common Dreams Sparking outcry from indigenous tribes and environmental groups, the Texas

By Greg Harman

/ 21 May 2019

VideoVIDEO: San Antonio’s (First Draft) Climate Plan Does What?

What the plan does. What it doesn’t do. And why it matter.

By Greg Harman

/ 26 Apr 2019

VideoVIDEO: Indigenous Resistance In An Extraction State

Greg Harman Marisol Cortez writes this week about various ways people can help the Carrizo-Comecrudo Tribe of Texas (Esto’k Gna) resist the construction of the border wall in

By Greg Harman

/ 26 Feb 2019

VideoVIDEO: Indigenous Resistance In An Extraction State

Stopping Bolsonaro’s Genocidal Policies Targeting Brazil’s Native Peoples

It is official. On the first of the year, Jair Bolsonaro, was inaugurated as the 38th President of Brazil. One of his first official acts as a newly inaugurated president was doing away with demarcation of indigenous territories in Brazil. All of us living on this planet should be fearful of this ac

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Jan 2019

Stopping Bolsonaro’s Genocidal Policies Targeting Brazil’s Native Peoples