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Growing solutions to an overheating world. Bioregional journal of environmental justice rooted in South Texas and serving the world. https://deceleration.news/ https://deceleration.news/newsletters Eds @harmanity.bsky.social & @mcortez.net
The principles of #mutualaid that are increasingly being built into community #climate efforts—out of deep and growing necessity. Some case studies here to be aware of.
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#climate #publichealth #globalwarming #activism #cities
The @nwu.org's Frances Madeson, reviewing my book, 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' in @deceleration.news, calls it "a rousing how-to guide for fighting corporate greed."
Check out her incisive review below, then go to ORBooks.com and buy the book!
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Smart review of a powerful new book by @jonathan4212.bsky.social. Everyone in #SATX fighting #ProjectMarvel needs to read this one. w/@orbooks.bsky.social
#socialism #RightToTheCity #Seattle #KshamaSawant
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"And I continue to ride (bike and VIA) because I can do no less for ... todos los demás inocentes." An elegy for our friend and comrade Jack Elder. K descanse en paz y poder.
#sanctuarymovement #migrantrights #degrowth #CentralAmerica
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San Antonio Heat Death Efforts Stalled As Council and Mayor Battle Over Process
A vote Thursday could resolve the dispute and put important heat work back in motion.
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collage featuring forest defenders and relates species.
“I could hear a woman’s voice screaming, ‘We’re coming back!’ ... and as I approached the wrecked tripod, a black late-model Jeep turned its headlights on and started to drive toward me."
#environment #activism #forests #biodiversity #news
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thanks, mason!
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working group putting pens to paper. headline reads: san antonio defunding climate ready program as project marvel tops agenda
The #SanAntonio Climate Ready Neighborhoods program, a burgeoning #climate effort seeks to activate “pods” across the city to prepare people for climate shocks, is seeing funding stripped away—as billions for entertainments capture attention.
#adaptation #news
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Our latest opinion piece kicks off a series of stories about the projects we want to see funded in a time of colliding crises. This multi-billion dollar "Project Marvel" entertainment district isn't one of them.
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#climate #food #cities #development #justice #hr
Movement media is a key tool to fight fascism.
In the @truthout.org Center for Grassroots Journalism newsletter, see the latest from @wagingnonviolence.org @hammerandhope.bsky.social @convergencemag.com @kcdefender.bsky.social @deceleration.news & more! ❤️
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All over our community and all over this land, people are fighting back and protecting each other by writing, singing, drawing, chalking sidewalks. Check out our first creative review here: deceleration.news/melting-ice-...
w/ @pacifistwarvet.bsky.social & otrxs
#poetry #art #visualart #resist
Group of people touring toxic sites of South Side of San Antonio.
#Toxic Tour Highlights #Environmental Justice Struggles on #SanAntonio’s South Side
A coalition of organizations led a tour across San Antonio’s ‘red line of inequity,’ spotlighting the overwhelming burden of polluting industries that persist south of Highway 90.
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following all. could you roll in our bioregional environmental justice media project!
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Headline over assortment of images reads: The Battle to Save the Endangered Species Act
Protecting threatened and endangered #species has long been popular with Americans across the political spectrum. But can the Trump administration, which has moved to weaken the Endangered Species Act, be inspired to protect the species we love?
#biodiversity
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graphic cover of flowers, trees, and ecologicial distress w/ headline reading: 'can poetry save the world from extractivist plunder and climate violence?'
Can #poetry save the world from extractivist plunder and climate violence?
These scholars of multi-lingual poetry from Latin America say yes—and that the Earth has a language that is archived by poetic thinking.
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#climate #literature #ecolit #clifi #environment
collage illustrating title: 'from barton springs attack to poland's sister rivers—femme friendship as eco-resistance
ASLE 2025: From #BartonSprings Attack to #Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’—Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance
' #Queer #ecology’ can show the way toward an alternative politics capable of establishing and honoring ‘femme-coded’ ways of thriving beyond violence.
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Artists! #Poetry #VisualArts #photography #prose
#ICE #climate #justice
This week we start to roll out some reportbacks from @asle-us.bsky.social ... Our first from Kamala Platt, author of 'Environmental Justice Poetics: Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India.'
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#environment #ecocrit #climate
kaia sand speaking at asle. headline reads: "as attacks on unhoused increase, kaia sand archives alternatives to criminilization"
As attacks ramp up @mkaiasand.bsky.social details the many ways we construct homeless people as “unwanted persons,” but also the creativity embodied in alternative first responder systems that enact “care work without violence.”
@asle-us.bsky.social
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protest sign reads: tx demands the epstein list" over highway. headline for story is: 'texas gerrymandering fight reveals actions of an autocrat—and what it takes to defeat one.'
Do not obey.
It's time to talk about mass noncooperation.
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authors/activists kamala platt, marisol cortez, carolina hinojosa, edward vidaurre speaking on birds, barrios, borders, & books
ASLE 2025: #Birds, Barrios, Borders, & #Books—#Chicanx Poetics and Publishing from the Belly of the Beast
Here's @mcortezwriter.bsky.social opening our @asle-us.bsky.social coverage from the biennial gathering last month. More to come.
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#ej #climate #poetry
CPS Energy Board Must Fulfill its Community #Solar Promise
To fulfill its commitment to the city’s most vulnerable residents, CPS Energy must launch its community solar program and restart the residential solar program it abandoned three years ago.
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spiders on map. headline of story: what our pro democracy movemenet should be learning from nature.
What Our Pro-Democracy Movement Should Be Learning from Nature
We need to learn to fly like bees and thread like spiders, writes conflict transformation expert John Paul Lederach.
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Via @wagingnonviolence.org
A preeminent #Latino scholar issues an urgent call to his colleagues—and to all of us—to get educated on our rights, vocally assert them, share information about threats as they emerge, and stand in active solidarity with all targeted groups.
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And so grateful they reached consensus.
25.07.2025 00:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Appreciate the mention and solidarity. After months of navigating debilitating illness, Deceleration is moving back into more consistent production rhythms in Aug. Hope to catch up soon.
25.07.2025 00:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0EXCELLENT WORK
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#Punk Power, People Power: Las Hijas de la Madre are Perfecting Art as #Resistance
As the #Latinx #feminist punk band drops singles and gears up to release a multifaceted album project, Deceleration takes a dive into the collective’s work and ethos.
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