Strange times, indeed. Deceleration turns 10 this year. Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman speaks with Executive Editor Marisol Cortez and contributor/Alternative Futures correspondent Syris Valentine about the year behind and year ahead for Deceleration. More video is part of the recipe, so join us as we dust off some of these innerwebbings.

Marisol's recs for 2025 stories:

• Her Body Was 126 Degrees After She Died; Bexar County Medical Examiner Blames Drugs
• Messages from Jess’s Last Days—A Social Autopsy
• As Trump Works to Crush Climate Efforts, Local Projects Persevere at the Grassroots
• Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance—From Barton Springs Attack to Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’
• New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat
• On the Responsibility of Latin@ Academics, Artists, and Cultural Workers
• PODCAST: Building Radical Democracy Into Climate Struggles w/ Ashish Kothari
• ‘Vanishing Ice, Melting ICE’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review
• ‘SUNAK’ (‘Awaken’) Music Video Release Celebrates Migration as a Birthright of All Beings
• Victims and Survivors of Martial Law Under Autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Remembered in a Moment of U.S. Authoritarian Peril

A few of Greg's favs:

• Jaguar Watch: What ‘Finishing the Wall’ Means for Borderland Cats
• Space Industry’s Explosive Growth Could ‘X’ the Earth’s Atmosphere
• ICE Abuses, Punishing Floods Show the Cesar Chavez March in the RGV is Still Necessary

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Deceleration’s Marisol Cortez speaks with Ashish Kothari on his work with the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, recently returned from the People’s Summit and COP30 in Belem, Brazil. An activist and author based in Pune, India, Kothari has been at the forefront of movements both in India and globally to imagine and enact on-the-ground alternatives to “development” as a colonial and often environmentally destructive paradigm. We talk with Kothari about radical democracy as the “missing debate” from climate discussions and the importance of maintaining focus on the work of “yes” as much as the work of “no.”

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In a community conversation closing out a gallery exhibit organized by ABOUT Face: Veterans Against the War, panelists from Texas and California discuss the histories of veteran activism against war and occupation and why soldiers today have a “right to refuse” Trump administration orders to deploy against US cities.

This panel was the concluding event of the multi-day Veteran Voce, hosted by Galeria E.V.A.

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