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Hands Off! April 5 Mass Mobilization to Stop Trump and Musk

Protests are being planned in cities across the U.S.—and clear across Texas, from El Paso to Houston and many small towns in between.

By Greg Harman

/ 3 Apr 2025

Hands Off! April 5 Mass Mobilization to Stop Trump and Musk

Check Fascism: Shut Down the Economy (and Grow Something Beautiful-ler)

Defeating Trump & Musk’s authoritarian power grab will require multiple forms of resistance, including targeted economic boycotts and general strikes.

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Feb 2025

Check Fascism: Shut Down the Economy (and Grow Something Beautiful-ler)

Take Deceleration’s End-of-Year Survey to Help Plan 2025 Coverage

As we prepare ourselves for 2025, we humbly ask our readers for help in two key ways.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 29 Dec 2024

Take Deceleration’s End-of-Year Survey to Help Plan 2025 Coverage

Support Our Team at WILD12: The First World Wilderness Congress Hosted by Indigenous Peoples

Every four years the World Wilderness Congress convenes to assess the state of the planet and the health of the full and wondrous web of life that fills the Earth. Each convening brings new causes for alarm and urgency. But each convening also produces new reasons for hope.

By Greg Harman

/ 21 Aug 2024

Support Our Team at WILD12: The First World Wilderness Congress Hosted by Indigenous Peoples

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

Take Action: ‘Heat Emergency’ Event Intends to Reduce Suffering, Highlight Solutions

Deceleration is assembling a panel of public health and community experts to lead a community conversation about the challenges of climate-driven extreme heat.

By Greg Harman

/ 29 Mar 2024

Take Action: ‘Heat Emergency’ Event Intends to Reduce Suffering, Highlight Solutions

Take Action: Brackenridge Committee Seeks ‘Reset’ on Community Relations

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.

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Jan 2024

brackenridge park reset community meeting

TAKE ACTION: Westside Creeks Project Public Input Sessions

Ecologically transformative Westside Creeks Project dogged by gentrification fears advances to final design phase on San Antonio’s Westside.

By Greg Harman

/ 18 Sep 2023

TAKE ACTION: Westside Creeks Project Public Input Sessions

Albert Garcia, Subject of Exhaustive Deceleration Reporting Project, Found Dead

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.

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Aug 2023

Albert Garcia, Subject of Exhaustive Deceleration Reporting Project, Found Dead

Senate Bill 6 Advances: The End of Energy Competition in Texas?

Here comes the $12B “backup generator” for Texas’s electric grid that would sit idle…almost always. And which Texans would pay for regardless if they are ever actually needed.

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Mar 2023

Senate Bill 6 Advances: The End of Energy Competition in Texas?

People’s Earth Week: Just Add Wheatpaste

What better way to reclaim the radical roots of Earth Day than by simultaneously making the world a more beautiful place?

By Common Dreams

/ 14 Mar 2023

People’s Earth Week: Just Add Wheatpaste

After police kill forest defender, movement to stop Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ calls for support

Atlanta activists are calling for an independent investigation and solidarity, after police killed an Indigenous land defender in a heavily-armed raid. Zane McNeill | Waging Nonviolence At least 19 Defend the

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 25 Jan 2023

After police kill forest defender, movement to stop Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ calls for support