Podcast - Deceleration

Inmates are Cooking Inside Texas Prisons. Are Reforms Coming at Last?

Deceleration speaks with Amite Dominick, founder & president of Texas Prisons Community Advocates, about efforts to force the state to install potentially life-saving air conditioning.

By Greg Harman

/ 15 May 2026

Inmates are Cooking Inside Texas Prisons. Are Reforms Coming at Last?

Project Matador: Fermi's 'Hyperscale' Data Center Complex Hitting Resistance in the Texas Panhandle

Deceleration speaks with Kendra Seawright of Women's March about data center organizing strategies in rural Texas.

By Greg Harman

/ 24 Apr 2026

Project Matador: Fermi's 'Hyperscale' Data Center Complex Hitting Resistance in the Texas Panhandle

Our Data Center Boom Threatens More Than Water—A Conversation About the Emerging Stakes in the Struggle

Warehouses are popping up across Texas: Some to fill with mistreated humans, others with a human-displacing consciousness.

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Mar 2026

Our Data Center Boom Threatens More Than Water—A Conversation About the Emerging Stakes in the Struggle

Bill Barker on Extreme Heat, City Planning, and Policies to Save Lives

Humankind didn't evolve in heat like this. Heat that is increasingly claiming lives. So how can we cool down our cities and keep more people safe?

By Greg Harman

/ 10 Feb 2026

Bill Barker on Extreme Heat, City Planning, and Policies to Save Lives

Liam Ramos Freed, Gaige Davila on Gulf Coast Fights, Defeating Climate Behemoth, More

Federal Judge Biery's words freeing Liam Ramos from detention, plus: talking with Gaige Davila about growing up on the coast and a new Deceleration newsletter: 'Coastlines & Faultlines;' defeating 'Climate Behemoth,' and Sulma Franco.

By Deceleration Staff

/ 5 Feb 2026

Liam Ramos Freed, Gaige Davila on Gulf Coast Fights, Defeating Climate Behemoth, More

Deceleration Turning 10 + New Website & Features

Founder Greg Harman speaks with Executive Editor Marisol Cortez & Alternative Futures correspondent Syris Valentine about the year behind, the year ahead, and where Deceleration fits.

By Greg Harman

/ 20 Jan 2026

Deceleration Turning 10 + New Website & Features

Building Radical Democracy Into Climate Struggles w/ Ashish Kothari

Reflecting on the disappointments of COP30 climate conference should draw us toward deeper consideration of grassroots alternatives that are already embodying just and sustainable ways of living.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 7 Dec 2025

Building Radical Democracy Into Climate Struggles w/ Ashish Kothari

Antiwar Vets Urge Soldiers to Claim their ‘Right to Refuse’ Illegal and Immoral Orders

In a community conversation closing out a gallery exhibit organized by ABOUT Face: Veterans Against the War, panelists from Texas and California discuss the histories of veteran activism against war and occupation and why soldiers today have a “right to refuse” Trump administration orders to deploy

By Marisol Cortez

/ 13 Nov 2025

Antiwar Vets Urge Soldiers to Claim their ‘Right to Refuse’ Illegal and Immoral Orders

'Curtains of Rain' Revisits South Texas Histories of Environmental Racism as Queer Coming-of Age Story

Our podcast interview with author Anel Flores talks Monsanto’s decades of contamination in Mission, Texas, the beauty of South Texas people and places, and fiction as a practice of healing self by writing the pain of those who have wounded us.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 24 Oct 2025

'Curtains of Rain' Revisits South Texas Histories of Environmental Racism as Queer Coming-of Age Story

Remembering Jack Elder—Activist, Peacemaker, Defender of Human Rights & La Madre Tierra

In a moment convulsed by questions of who we remember and how, we choose to commemorate the life of our friend and comrade Jack Elder (1943-2025).

By Marisol Cortez

/ 20 Sep 2025

Remembering Jack Elder—Activist, Peacemaker, Defender of Human Rights & La Madre Tierra

Fighting Authoritarianism While Winning Water & Energy Justice in Texas

‘Why is CenterPoint Energy making billions while people die? Why is Encor and other electric utilities making massive profits, when none of that comes back to us?’ — Dave Cortez, Texas Sierra Club

By Greg Harman

/ 12 Feb 2025

Fighting Authoritarianism While Winning Water & Energy Justice in Texas

Gentrification, Displacement, Heat Deaths, & the Robert E. Lee Tenants Union

We could know what happens to people after they are evicted. Just like we could know how many people are dying from extreme heat. In the struggle to stay housed, organizers must push against powerful entrenched forces that demand unknowing.

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Oct 2024