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'Looking Mexican' in the Age of ICE
'Looking Mexican' in the Age of ICE
Brown skin—a metric used by ICE to trigger investigations and detentions—means not that one is an 'invader,' but likely an heir of the continent's original Indigenous inhabitants. Why don't more claim that inheritance?
Thousands of Heat-Related Deaths Go Uncounted in Texas Each Year, New Research Finds
Thousands of Heat-Related Deaths Go Uncounted in Texas Each Year, New Research Finds
Existing systems record only ‘one-sixth of the statistically estimated heat deaths’ in Texas, a new paper by a Texas A&M researcher finds.
Black Communities Are Building the Future
Black Communities Are Building the Future
Exploring the new documentary, 'Grasping at the Roots,' from the Climate Justice Alliance.
Smash Fascism While Blasting These 10 Texas Tunes
Smash Fascism While Blasting These 10 Texas Tunes
Bad Bunny and the Boss aren't the only ones decrying federal abuses. The resistance in Texas is remarkably fertile, as these critical artists prove out.
Round Rock Texas Approves Ninth Data Center Over Strong Community Resistance
Round Rock Texas Approves Ninth Data Center Over Strong Community Resistance
City of Round Rock is 'business friendly ... resident hostile.' A Q&A with Gary Oldham of Protect Round Rock
Journalists Jailed by ICE Are Revealing the Horrors of Incarceration
Journalists Jailed by ICE Are Revealing the Horrors of Incarceration
The Trump administration’s attacks on journalists have a side effect: further exposing the violence of prisons.
Youth Hold the Future—and There is No Room There for ICE
Youth Hold the Future—and There is No Room There for ICE
Two San Antonio high school students capture the energy and passion of their peers, who took to the streets on a federal holiday in support of family, friends, and neighbors terrorized by ICE.
Our Planet's Billions—Or the Profiting Petro Elite? (We Can't Have Both)
Our Planet's Billions—Or the Profiting Petro Elite? (We Can't Have Both)
It is time to decide.
SAWS Rate Hikes are Coming. How Fair is their Rate Structure?
SAWS Rate Hikes are Coming. How Fair is their Rate Structure?
Retired academic Jim Spickard breaks down SAWS rate structure as San Antonio moves toward a series of rate-hike votes.
MAGA's War on Disabled People Visible in ICE Attacks and Gutting of Medicaid
MAGA's War on Disabled People Visible in ICE Attacks and Gutting of Medicaid
Departed Texas-based disability justice activist Bob Kafka had words for this moment: ‘Don’t Mourn. Organize.’
We Built Disaster Kits for Our Rio Grande Valley Neighbors—They Use Them for Daily Survival
We Built Disaster Kits for Our Rio Grande Valley Neighbors—They Use Them for Daily Survival
As climate 'shocks' increasingly puncture wealthier parts of the U.S., they lengthen like a shadow across this borderlands region.
ICE Watch: Weaving a New World in the Twilight of Fascism's Sunset
ICE Watch: Weaving a New World in the Twilight of Fascism's Sunset
The roots of today's assault on immigrant communities and people of color reach back to much earlier abuses.
Bill Barker on Extreme Heat, City Planning, and Policies to Save Lives
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?
‘Largest Power Project’ in U.S. Brings Record-Setting Pollution Permit to West Texas
‘Largest Power Project’ in U.S. Brings Record-Setting Pollution Permit to West Texas
When completed the 7.7GW facility would release 33 million tons per year of greenhouse gases—nearly 5 percent of the total annual emissions of Canada.
Liam Ramos Freed, Gaige Davila on Gulf Coast Fights, Defeating Climate Behemoth, More
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.
ICE Buys Massive San Antonio Warehouse As Detained Population Approaches 75,000
ICE Buys Massive San Antonio Warehouse As Detained Population Approaches 75,000
Numerous lawsuits and judge’s orders have dogged ICE detention centers in recent months, with one federal judge comparing a facility outside Chicago to a “concentration camp.”
‘Sea of Creatures’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review
‘Sea of Creatures’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review
Protests of ‘Abolish ICE’ Reach Texas Dems as Trump’s Agents Count the Holes in the Dead
Protests of ‘Abolish ICE’ Reach Texas Dems as Trump’s Agents Count the Holes in the Dead
Wednesday Protest Planned in Support of Dilley Detainees Who Cried Out for Help this Weekend
Wednesday Protest Planned in Support of Dilley Detainees Who Cried Out for Help this Weekend
Want ICE Out? Know These 10 Rules of Resistance
Want ICE Out? Know These 10 Rules of Resistance
Amy Hardberger: It's Time to Talk About Growth Controls in Rural Texas
Amy Hardberger: It's Time to Talk About Growth Controls in Rural Texas
Lennar’s Controversial Guajolote Ranch MUD Request Getting Cautious Treatment by San Antonio Council
Lennar’s Controversial Guajolote Ranch MUD Request Getting Cautious Treatment by San Antonio Council
Has US Fascism Moved From a Theoretical Debate Into an Urgent National Crisis?
Has US Fascism Moved From a Theoretical Debate Into an Urgent National Crisis?
A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years.
A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years.
PODCAST: Deceleration Turning 10 + New Website & Features
PODCAST: Deceleration Turning 10 + New Website & Features
Hotter for the Holidays: Texas December Temps Up 4-5 Degrees Since 1970
Hotter for the Holidays: Texas December Temps Up 4-5 Degrees Since 1970
Trump Wars For Oil Abroad and Against Renewables at Home as Fossil Fuels Claim Millions of Lives a Year – Deceleration
Trump Wars For Oil Abroad and Against Renewables at Home as Fossil Fuels Claim Millions of Lives a Year – Deceleration
Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts, New Lawsuit Claims – Deceleration
Feds Still Ignoring Rio Grande LNG Air Pollution and Health Impacts, New Lawsuit Claims – Deceleration
Controversial Guajolote Ranch Set for San Antonio Planning Commission Hearing – Deceleration
Controversial Guajolote Ranch Set for San Antonio Planning Commission Hearing – Deceleration
Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex – Deceleration
Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex – Deceleration
ACLU: ICE Detainees at Camp East Montana Beaten, Threatened with Illegal Removal to Mexico – Deceleration
ACLU: ICE Detainees at Camp East Montana Beaten, Threatened with Illegal Removal to Mexico – Deceleration
Diane Wilson Can See a World After Plastics. Can You? – Deceleration
Diane Wilson Can See a World After Plastics. Can You? – Deceleration
Calhoun County’s First 'People's Microplastics Conference' Hopes to Usher in the End of Plastics – Deceleration
Calhoun County’s First 'People's Microplastics Conference' Hopes to Usher in the End of Plastics – Deceleration
EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States – Deceleration
EPA Cuts Leaving Industry Increasingly Unregulated as Petrochemical Buildout Sweeps U.S. Gulf States – Deceleration
Jim LaVilla-Havelin's New Works Compel Us to Consider Sparse Land In a Hard Time – Deceleration
Jim LaVilla-Havelin's New Works Compel Us to Consider Sparse Land In a Hard Time – Deceleration
Carbon Dioxide Accidents Show Regulatory Failure in Emerging Public Health Threat – Deceleration
Carbon Dioxide Accidents Show Regulatory Failure in Emerging Public Health Threat – Deceleration
PODCAST: Building Radical Democracy Into Climate Struggles w/ Ashish Kothari – Deceleration
PODCAST: Building Radical Democracy Into Climate Struggles w/ Ashish Kothari – Deceleration
Campaign to End Femicide in Texas Launched by Mujeres Marcharan – Deceleration
Campaign to End Femicide in Texas Launched by Mujeres Marcharan – Deceleration
We Must Reject White Nationalism Driving MAGA's Rampant ICE Abuses – Deceleration
We Must Reject White Nationalism Driving MAGA's Rampant ICE Abuses – Deceleration
As Global Climate Talks Fumble, Texas Campaigns Target Companies Powering Genocide and Ecocide – Deceleration
As Global Climate Talks Fumble, Texas Campaigns Target Companies Powering Genocide and Ecocide – Deceleration
Children Among 'More Than 140' Detained by ICE & FBI in Multi-Agency Sweep in San Antonio – Deceleration
Children Among 'More Than 140' Detained by ICE & FBI in Multi-Agency Sweep in San Antonio – Deceleration
PODCAST: Antiwar Vets Urge Soldiers to Claim their 'Right to Refuse' Illegal and Immoral Orders – Deceleration
PODCAST: Antiwar Vets Urge Soldiers to Claim their 'Right to Refuse' Illegal and Immoral Orders – Deceleration
Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference – Deceleration
Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference – Deceleration
New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat – Deceleration
New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat – Deceleration
Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.'s Rise – Deceleration
Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.'s Rise – Deceleration
Texas Professor Speaks Out After Being Fired for 'Crime' of Speaking at Socialism Summit – Deceleration
Texas Professor Speaks Out After Being Fired for 'Crime' of Speaking at Socialism Summit – Deceleration
Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S. – Deceleration
Report: Corpus Christi LNG Among the Highest Polluting LNG Export Plants in U.S. – Deceleration
VIDEO: Victims and Survivors of Martial Law Under Autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Remembered in a Moment of U.S. Authoritarian Peril – Deceleration
VIDEO: Victims and Survivors of Martial Law Under Autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Remembered in a Moment of U.S. Authoritarian Peril – Deceleration
San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows – Deceleration
San Antonio Climate Emissions Are Tracking Up—Not Down—New Data Shows – Deceleration
Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years – Deceleration
Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years – Deceleration
TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat – Deceleration
TCEQ Commissioners Approve Guajolote Ranch Wastewater Permit—Spark Lawsuit Threat – Deceleration
'No Kings': San Antonio Turns Out for Nation's Largest Ever Day of Protest – Deceleration
'No Kings': San Antonio Turns Out for Nation's Largest Ever Day of Protest – Deceleration
San Antonio Heat-Death Tracking Effort Advances Over Staff 'No Action' Recommendation – Deceleration
San Antonio Heat-Death Tracking Effort Advances Over Staff 'No Action' Recommendation – Deceleration
San Antonio City Staff Recommend Against Tracking Heat-Related Deaths, Alleging ‘Very Few’ Deaths – Deceleration
San Antonio City Staff Recommend Against Tracking Heat-Related Deaths, Alleging ‘Very Few’ Deaths – Deceleration
'Power for Palestine' Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio's Role in Genocide – Deceleration
'Power for Palestine' Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio's Role in Genocide – Deceleration
Growing Clean Energy Investments and Green Spaces Critical to Protecting Public Health, Panelists Say – Deceleration
Growing Clean Energy Investments and Green Spaces Critical to Protecting Public Health, Panelists Say – Deceleration
Corpus Desal Runs Aground Over Cost Uncertainties (Again) at Friday Water Workshop – Deceleration
Corpus Desal Runs Aground Over Cost Uncertainties (Again) at Friday Water Workshop – Deceleration
Puerto Rico's Casa Pueblo Provides a Case Study in Community Solar as Decolonization – Deceleration
Puerto Rico's Casa Pueblo Provides a Case Study in Community Solar as Decolonization – Deceleration
REVIEW: 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' Is a Rousing How-To Guide for Fighting Corporate Greed – Deceleration
REVIEW: 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' Is a Rousing How-To Guide for Fighting Corporate Greed – Deceleration
We Must Reject Trump Admin Plot to Dismantle U.S. Progressive Movement – Deceleration
We Must Reject Trump Admin Plot to Dismantle U.S. Progressive Movement – Deceleration
‘Slaying Monsters’: Lessons From a Washington Tree Sit for Activists Everywhere – Deceleration
‘Slaying Monsters’: Lessons From a Washington Tree Sit for Activists Everywhere – Deceleration
Degrowth: 'A Gateway into Socialist Thought for the 21st Century' – Deceleration
Degrowth: 'A Gateway into Socialist Thought for the 21st Century' – Deceleration
As Trump Works to Crush Climate Efforts, Local Projects Persevere at the Grassroots – Deceleration
As Trump Works to Crush Climate Efforts, Local Projects Persevere at the Grassroots – Deceleration
San Antonio Leaders Dangerously Bedazzled by Project Marvel Amidst Climate Breakdown – Deceleration
San Antonio Leaders Dangerously Bedazzled by Project Marvel Amidst Climate Breakdown – Deceleration
Corpus Christi Desalination Effort Returns Weeks After Community Victory Over Contested $1.2B Project – Deceleration
Corpus Christi Desalination Effort Returns Weeks After Community Victory Over Contested $1.2B Project – Deceleration
Open AI, Oracle to Power Massive $165B 'Project Jupiter' Data Center Campus Outside Parched El Paso – Deceleration
Open AI, Oracle to Power Massive $165B 'Project Jupiter' Data Center Campus Outside Parched El Paso – Deceleration
As Authoritarianism Surges Worldwide, Global South Communities Lead Way to Truly Democratic Alternatives – Deceleration
As Authoritarianism Surges Worldwide, Global South Communities Lead Way to Truly Democratic Alternatives – Deceleration
Texas Gerrymandering Fight Reveals Actions of an Autocrat—And What it Takes to Defeat One – Deceleration
Texas Gerrymandering Fight Reveals Actions of an Autocrat—And What it Takes to Defeat One – Deceleration
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