San Antonio: Rise for Climate on Saturday!
On September 8, San Antonians will join thousands of rallies being held in cities and towns around the world to demand our leaders commit to building a fossil free world […]
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The Courage to Question
Anti-war veterans group, About Face, calls Witte Museum to account over George W. Bush exhibit Marisol Cortez I was living in Northern California when the Bush administration invaded Iraq in […]
Mayor Backs #OccupyICE Call for SA Police to Stand Down
This morning, San Antonio’s SAPD stopped by the #OccupyICE camp outside a Northside US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and warned of imminent arrest for the protestors. Then they drove […]
Climate Plan: Who Controls CPS Energy?
SA climate planners claim lack of ‘operational control’ over City-owned utility excuses millions of tons of pollution. Nearly 40 percent of City-owned CPS Energy’s climate pollution may not be accounted […]
ATTEND: SA’s Climate Plan Could Hide Tons of Emissions
San Antonio is one of the last large cities in the United States to get serious about climate change. But a plan now being developed is wide-ranging and potentially very […]
VIDEO: Medicare For All: Voices from San Antonio
See a video of the full march. See complete video of speakers.
Puerto Rico Missing a Chance to Rebuild with Renewables
Eight months after Hurricane Maria damaged 80 percent of Puerto Rico’s electricity grid, energy expert Lionel Orama-Exclusa talks to Yale Environment 360 about how the island is missing an opportunity to […]
Rolling Coal: American Racism Feeds Climate Inaction
Researchers have thoroughly investigated the link between ideology and attitudes toward climate change, finding that conservatives are significantly more likely to reject climate science, not because they misapprehend the facts, but because they are taking their cues from conservative elites, many of whom have close ties to the fossil fuel industry.
ICE Attack: How to Support Family Reunification
Local, state, and federal officials in San Antonio spoke out last night against the punitive federal practice of separating asylum-seeking families at the U.S.-Mexico border. They were joined in front […]
No Such Thing As a Climate Plan With A Coal Plant
With ‘Dirty’ Deely’s retirement nearing, San Antonio’s CPS Energy hosting a hearing on keeping Spruce burning past 2040. Greg Harman SAN ANTONIO—Lumbering through the Earth Day throngs at Woodlawn Lake […]
Sept. 8, 2018: ‘Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice’
Push back against Trump anti-worker, anti-planet agenda this fall by demanding a ‘just transition’ to a 100-percent renewable economy and millions of ‘family-sustaining jobs.’ Jessica Corbett Commons Dreams The Peoples […]
Are the U.S. Marines Harboring Nazis?
Vasillios Pistolis claimed to have ‘cracked three skulls’ in Charlottesville. But how serious are the U.S. Marines in their investigation? A.C. Thompson & Ali Winston ProPublica/Frontline It was Oct. 29, […]
Preparing for Texas Hurricane Season
With official start of hurricane season on Friday, people along the Texas coast should consider buying insurance, packing an emergency supply kit and learning their evacuation routes now. Alex Samuels […]
Climate Action, San Antonio? Round Two Starts Next Week
Time to start gargling your ethically sourced chamomile and honey tea. On Monday, the second round of sit-down meetings for the various Climate Action and Adaptation Plan technical working groups and their steering committee gets underway.
For Rohingya Refugees, a ‘Frenzy of Sexual Violence’
In ‘silent anguish,’ thousands of women fear community stigma as births begin to spike. Late last year, as violent repression in Myanmar sent Rohingyas fleeing to safety in Bangladesh, women […]
VIDEO: Gentrification Looms over Downtown SATX
Stand with Soap Works & Towne Center tenants-rights group is raising the voices of the city’s most vulnerable residents being torn by gentrification. Greg Harman In San Antonio, there have […]
USDA Putting ‘Mmmmmm’ in GMO
Proposal Replaces ‘GMO’ with ‘Bioengineered’ on Labels, but USDA Asking Public for a Definition. Andrea Germanos The public comment period is now open on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s just […]
‘Three Billion Reasons’ San Antonio Should Reject the RNC
*UPDATE: It appears the San Antonio City Council doesn’t take all their marching orders from the San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board. Counter the daily’s advice, San Antonio’s electeds voted today […]