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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 6d

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

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 14d

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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REVIEW: 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' Is a Rousing How-To Guide for Fighting Corporate Greed – Deceleration

Jonathan Rosenblum's new movement history—and valuable primer in municipalist solutions—delivers insight and inspiration from successes in Seattle, where people have forced local government to put the...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 14d

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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 14d

"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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 21d

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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 26d

“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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collage featuring forest defenders and relates species.

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 27d

thanks, mason!

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · 29d

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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working group putting pens to paper. headline reads: san antonio defunding climate ready program as project marvel tops agenda

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Sep 7

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

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Grassroots journalism organizations are a tool against fascism -- and their voices are growing

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 29

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

'Vanishing Ice, Melting ICE'—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review – Deceleration

Deceleration's first quarterly creative review taps into deep wells of community talent responding to the vanishing ice of warming seas and recent ICE vanishings of our family, friends, and neighbors....

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 27

#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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Group of people touring toxic sites of South Side of San Antonio.

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 21

following all. could you roll in our bioregional environmental justice media project!

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 21

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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Headline over assortment of images reads: The Battle to Save the Endangered Species Act

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 15

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

graphic cover of flowers, trees, and ecologicial distress w/ headline reading: 'can poetry save the world from extractivist plunder and climate violence?'

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 14

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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collage illustrating title: 'from barton springs attack to poland's sister rivers—femme friendship as eco-resistance

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 13

Artists! #Poetry #VisualArts #photography #prose

#ICE #climate #justice

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 13

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

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 13

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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kaia sand speaking at asle. headline reads: "as attacks on unhoused increase, kaia sand archives alternatives to criminilization"

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 11

Do not obey.

It's time to talk about mass noncooperation.

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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.'

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 8

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

authors/activists kamala platt, marisol cortez, carolina hinojosa, edward vidaurre speaking on birds, barrios, borders, & books

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Jul 25

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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Jul 25

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

spiders on map. headline of story: what our pro democracy movemenet should be learning from nature.

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Jul 25

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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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Jul 25

And so grateful they reached consensus.

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