San Antonio - Deceleration (Page 4)

‘I Dreamed I Was Replacing People’s Air Conditioners’: Speaking with Heat Pump Promotora Debbie Ponce

A new grassroots project pools funds, time, and working class know-how to install high-efficiency mini split air conditioning units in the hottest homes on San Antonio’s Southwest side.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 20 Sep 2024

‘I Dreamed I Was Replacing People’s Air Conditioners’: Speaking with Heat Pump Promotora Debbie Ponce

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

Welcome to the People’s University for Palestine

The People’s University for Palestine is a new popular education project that compiles resources for educators and community members who see learning and teaching about genocide in Gaza as central to halting it.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 3 Sep 2024

People's University for Palestine graphic

The Woman Who Died in the Texas Heat on a San Antonio Sidewalk Was My Friend

After many months of fruitless efforts to get Jessica help, our case was finally moving. And for a couple days we were hopeful. Then the heat dome hit.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 24 Aug 2024

The Woman Who Died in the Texas Heat on a San Antonio Sidewalk Was My Friend

Scorching 129 Heat Index Recorded Downtown San Antonio During Wednesday Heat Alert

Deceleration research has shown repeatedly how the official San Antonio temps don’t always capture the actual heat impacting communities across the urban landscape.

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Aug 2024

Scorching 129 Heat Index Recorded Downtown San Antonio During Wednesday Heat Alert

Reweaving the Social Fabric of Climate Action with Kara Jordan

What do building relationships of trust and care between neighbors have to do with climate justice? Everything, according to local organizer Kara Jordan, an herbalist, regenerative agriculture specialist, and mother whose work highlights the interdependence of all beings.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 19 Aug 2024

Reweaving the Social Fabric of Climate Action with Kara Jordan

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

Peace and Dignity Journeys Offering Prayers for the Intercontinental Community

Though officially begun in 1992, the routes run by the Peace and Dignity Journeys trace an unbroken ancestral history of migration and ceremony across Abya Yala that continues more than 500 year later. A report back from the prayer run as it moved its way south through San Pedro Park in San Antonio.

By Danielle López

/ 10 Aug 2024

Peace and Dignity Journeys Offering Prayers for the Intercontinental Community

VIDEO: The Message of Peace & Dignity Journeys 2024 Indigenous Prayer Run

Indigenous runners threading the Americas as part of the Peace & Dignity Journeys 2024 prayer run speak of their personal prayers for their cultures and communities—but also the gift that their efforts are offering to the world.

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Aug 2024

VIDEO: The Message of Peace & Dignity Journeys 2024 Indigenous Prayer Run

How Not to Get ‘Cooked’: Chicago Heat Wave Doc Provides Health Lessons for Overheating ‘Hoods

A review of lessons learned about heat since the ‘90s; Plus! A guide to heat-busting efforts happening now in San Antonio, Texas

By Marisol Cortez

/ 18 Jul 2024

How Not to Get ‘Cooked’: Chicago Heat Wave Doc Provides Health Lessons for Overheating ‘Hoods

Stop the Attack on Migratory Birds in San Antonio—Eggs and Chicks Are in Those Nests

City of San Antonio contractors have been seen trying to dislodge migratory birds at Woodlawn Lake. The rookery is full of babies and eggs. Call these elected reps to stop it.

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Jun 2024

Stop the Attack on Migratory Birds in San Antonio—Eggs and Chicks Are in Those Nests

LULAC Calls on City of San Antonio to Stop Displacing Birds, Trees—and Parkgoers

Resolution passed last month at LULAC’s state convention highlights the attacks on the birds and trees in Brackenridge Park —and their connection to civil and ceremonial rights for local Indigenous and Latine communities.

By Greg Harman

/ 12 Jun 2024

LULAC Calls on City of San Antonio to Stop Displacing Birds, Trees—and Parkgoers