Deceleration is assembling a panel of public health and community experts to lead a community conversation about the challenges of climate-driven extreme heat.
Albert Garcia died beneath a highway offramp after living unsheltered for nearly a month during San Antonio’s hottest summer on record. A decision not to include heat as a contributing factor has sparked debate.
For most of the world, housing is at least understood as a human right. Yet in the richest nation on earth—and in San Antonio—the struggle continues for both housing justice action and agreement.
City of San Antonio Brackenridge Park committee members hope to open a new conversation about the park while generating a Brackenridge Park Reconciled Project Inventory.
Small groups of 20 or fewer will be allowed to hold limited ceremonies beside the San Antonio River, but U.S. District Judge Biery rejects requests by members of the Lipan-Apache Native American Church to protect the trees and birds.
On the cusp of the 25th march in the city, Deceleration spoke with Diaz about the roots of his own Indigenous awareness and movement away from Dia de la Raza in the late ’90s to what became a tenacious drive for an Indigenous Peoples Day declaration in San Antonio.
The central question for U.S. District Judge Fred Biery is whether the city of San Antonio has made sufficient efforts to provide members of the Lipan-Apache “Hoosh Chetzel” Native American Church access to one of its most sacred sites for religious ceremonies. City attorneys argued last week that n
On August 12, 2023, after enduring nearly a month of triple-digit temperatures Garcia, at age 56, passed away. Residents are now seeking to hold city and state agencies accountable for his death.
A year-long effort to get Garcia off the streets exposed shortcomings of local and state practices—even as the extreme cold of Winter Storm Uri took both of Garcia’s feet. Now extreme heat likely contributed to his death.
