rights of nature - Deceleration (Page 2)

Honor All Life: Make Ecocide an International Crime

To stop the destruction of life on this planet, international criminal codes must expand beyond human-focused war crimes and genocide to include ecocide—recognizing non-human life has inherent value. Heather

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Jul 2021

To Help Stop the Age of Extinction, Give Nature a New Pronoun

For Indigenous scholar Robin Wall Kimmerer, Western grammatical norms of using “it” to refer to more-than-human relatives absolve settler cultures of moral responsibility for exploiting and dominating nature. Here’s

By Marisol Cortez

/ 19 Mar 2021

To Help Stop the Age of Extinction, Give Nature a New Pronoun

‘Terrified’ Pennsylvania General Energy Company Seeks to Destroy Local Rights of Nature Law

‘PGE throwing another lawsuit at us to try to bring us to heel, when our community has overwhelmingly said “hell no” multiple times.’ Jessica Corbett/Common Dreams In a clear

By Greg Harman

/ 16 Dec 2020

EP13: Charles Roundtree Bloom Project; Rights of Nature in SATX, Yanawana Herbolarios

Deceleration.Live Episode 13 comes after a month-long break at the broadcast. In it we weave together several critical conversations on emerging movements and thought rising in San Antonio, including

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Jul 2020

EP13: Charles Roundtree Bloom Project; Rights of Nature in SATX, Yanawana Herbolarios

PODCAST: Rights of Nature Arrives in San Antonio

Deceleration · 14: Rights of Nature Movement Reaches San Antonio Marisol Cortez In Spring of 2012, at the tail end of my time teaching in Lawrence, Kansas, I had the privilege

By Marisol Cortez

/ 12 Jun 2020

PODCAST: Rights of Nature Arrives in San Antonio

Threats to Indigenous Rights Dangerous for World Climate

Though critical to forest protection and reversing the climate crisis, indigenous rights are under attack and losing the fight in Bolivia against agricultural interests. Iokiñe Rodríguez and Mirna Inturias Earth’

By Greg Harman

/ 14 Feb 2020

Threats to Indigenous Rights Dangerous for World Climate

On the Rights of Wild Rice

The White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized the Rights of Wild Rice. Here’s Why. Editor’s Note: Originally published last year in YES! Magazine, this piece by Indigenous

By Marisol Cortez

/ 24 Jan 2020

Live Broadcast to Explore SA’s Radical Resistance

Greg Harman As we close out Global Climate Strike week, do you or your kids ever wonder what we did before #Greta? Join us in October 7, 2019, as Deceleration

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Sep 2019

Live Broadcast to Explore SA’s Radical Resistance

In Praise of Nuisance Heronries (Part Two)

Bird-dispersing chemical warfare comes to the Westside’s little Aztlan, our ‘place of herons.’ Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Click here for part one,

By Marisol Cortez

/ 8 Jun 2019

In Praise of Nuisance Heronries (Part Two)

In Praise of Nuisance Heronries (Part One)

How the slow attention of local women exposed an institutional war on the birds of San Antonio. Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series. Read part

By Marisol Cortez

/ 31 May 2019

In Praise of Nuisance Heronries (Part One)

Can Ecuador’s ‘Buen Vivir’ translate in the United States?

San Antonio’s PR teams are advancing a particular vision of sustainability. And they’re tapping into the language of “buen vivir.”

By Greg Harman

/ 3 Jul 2017

Can Ecuador’s ‘Buen Vivir’ translate in the United States?

Storm the Crossroads: How the Fracking ‘Revolution’ Gambles Our Already-Tenuous Future

We idle at a crossroads. It’s a harried intersection, to be sure, at a twilight hour.From one direction flow the rail cars of explosive oil, streams of latticed

By Greg Harman

/ 20 Feb 2014

Storm the Crossroads: How the Fracking ‘Revolution’ Gambles Our Already-Tenuous Future