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Short Video Intro to Deceleration: Why We Do What We Do.

Deceleration is a nonprofit online journal producing original news and analysis responding to our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises.

We write at the intersection of environment and justice—journalistically, academically, and creatively—with emphasis on our home communities and bioregion (the watersheds of San Antonio, South Texas, and the Gulf South, broadly).

Deceleration is dedicated to cultivating radical imagination that goes to the roots of climate disturbance in historical systems of oppression while expanding and deepening the sorts of solutions we put into practice for protecting and creating the commons.

Deceleration is inspired by intellectual and political movements around the world for degrowth, buen vivir, the right to the city, and the rights of nature/mother earth. by @deceleration_news

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For Those Who Want to Know a Little More.

About Deceleration. by @deceleration_news

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Dozens of residents filled a meeting room at Northwest Vista College's Cypress Campus Center on Tuesday evening for a town hall on data center development, hosted by the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance and Public Citizen Texas. The campus sits directly across Highway 151 from a dense cluster of data centers, including a Vantage Data Centers facility that is now the subject of a lawsuit brought by a group of environmental organizations.

The heart of the meeting was an unpacking of the City's recent efforts to rewrite its Unified Development Code so that San Antonio can regulate where data centers operate — something it currently cannot meaningfully do.

District 6 Councilmember Galvan, whose district holds the largest concentration of the facilities in the city, said that concentration represents a build-out of fiber and energy infrastructure that arrived roughly 20 years ago with the National Security Agency campus on the city's Far West Side.

"You don't build something next to something that has no road," Galvan said. "For data centers, the same thing is true for fiber optic networks as well as for energy infrastructure."

While data centers have only an outdated definition in the local zoning code, efforts underway now, largely due to Galvan's leadership, have produced two competing visions of potential regulation. Rachel Hanes, policy director at the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance, said GEAA and Public Citizen are backing the more restrictive of the two.

Story, pics, and full video of Town Hall: Only at Deceleration.

Link in bio by @deceleration_news

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This presidential administration has radically slowed efforts to prevent deranged violent criminals and drug runners. But it has surged resources toward a mission to vilify and criminalize immigrants and any dissidents of the increasingly authoritarian regime.

The burgeoning billions in ICE’s budget is not about stomping out crime, in other words, but rather about the reinstatement of a pecking order in which the President and his billionaire techbro cronies are at the top and remain there. An order in which white supremacy leads the way into a retrograde timeline, one where the great replacement conspiracy theory dictates domestic and international policy suffocating both domestic and foreign markets and choking out skilled professionals.

This month’s newsletter is a look at some of the recent ICE policy updates and local impacts in Texas and beyond. We will also explore what is being done locally in San Antonio to hold the rogue government agency accountable as well as local tools for resistance against detention and surveillance expansion.

If this newsletter speaks to you, be sure to share it with your friends, family, and community. Join as a free or paying supporter and engage in the comments below. Let me know what you want to see in the next newsletter!

— Roxana Rojas taken in San Antonio, Texas by @deceleration_news

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NEW PODCAST ALERT! Deceleration Brake Room #1 Coming Friday, 10.16. 26.
In this clip, ICE Watch correspondent Roxana Rojas breaks down new DHS directives on car chases coming too late for the many ICE shootings and assaults we’ve already suffered. Consider us dubious on response in light of the very limited training these agents are recieiving from the jump.
Watch for podcast Friday.
New ICE Watch newsletter coming today for subscribers!
Deceleration.news by @deceleration_news

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Episode 46: Abbott Wants Your Utility—Billionaire Takeover, Deregulation, & City Power: What’s At Stake?

"They don't want strong government institutions.
"They don’t want unions.
“They don’t want environmental protection.
“Because all of these things get in the way of the profit-seeking of the billionaire class.”

—Mike Siegel, Austin City Council (D7)

Governor Greg Abbott wants to deregulate Texas city-owned utilities and hand those markets over to private shareholders. We break down what's at stake for Austin, San Antonio, and ~70 other municipalities in our new Deceleration podcast.

Here, Councilmember Siegel says that Abbott’s proposed breaking up of city-owned utilities is just part of a broader playbook intended to cause people to be cynical about government, withdraw their energies, and ease the way for the authoritarian money grab.

Deceleration.news for podcast.

Guests:
• Conor Harrison, author of 'Brokers of Power: The Financialization of the US Electricity System'
• DeeDee Belmares, climate justice organizer with Public Citizen
• Mike Siegel, Austin City Council (D7)

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On Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, hundreds of San Antonio residents marched in East San Antonio against a massive proposed ICE detention center now in development.

After a two-mile march from S.J. Davis Middle School, they gathered outside a 640,000-square-foot warehouse off Loop 410 to sing and pray. The facility, recently advertised as the largest warehouse in Central Texas, is expected to house thousands caught in a growing deportation industrial complex that is tied to escalating cases of death and abuse by federal agents.

A growing movement to abolish ICE just reached the international human rights organization Amnesty International. A recent report not only details the deaths in detention and wanton violence during street actions that have brought a growing body count, but also the unlawful use of facial recognition technology and surveillance tools.

A letter released last week signed by five members of the San Antonio City Council said the body must to "everything in our power" to stop the facility from ever opening.

"The time for all of City Council to unite against the placement of this atrocity exhibition in our backyard is now," the Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, letter reads.

San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones issued a statement the same day affirming her support for taking legal action to stop the facility.

On Thursday, San Antonio City Council will discuss and potentially vote on initiating environmental assessments of the facility by City-owned water and power utilities. The item was added to the agenda at the request of the mayor, supported by four Council members.

Full Story/Video/Slideshow at Deceleration.

Link in bio. taken in San Antonio, Texas by @deceleration_news

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“We're here today to say stop the opening of this detention center, to end child detention in the United States. Not a single child more should be at Dilley trailer prison."

— US Rep. Julian Castro

2/2 featuring @joaquincastrotx from Saturday's rally and march, when hundreds of San Antonio residents marched iagainst a massive proposed ICE detention center now in development on SA's East Side. After a two-mile march, they gathered outside the 640,000-square-foot warehouse (542 SE Loop 410) expected to be used to house thousands of detained people caught up in growing national deportation-industrial complex tied to escalating cases of abuse.

Opening the event, Castro said that ICE violence in Austin and San Antonio, but also Chicago, Los Angeles, and beyond, was fed by Texas Gov. Abbott's decision to deploy Texas National Guard "who never signed up for it and force them to go into these detention centers and do ICE's work."

So, he closes, on "a personal note" to "please vote Greg Abbott out of office November."

As our last Creative Review asked artists to consider: What does the world in 250 years from now look like … and how did you help build it?

Story coming to Deceleration.news taken in San Antonio, Texas by @deceleration_news

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“Governor Greg Abbott is feeding ICE people. They start with suspicion first, and then they'll call ICE. ... And the governors in these other states protected their people. Our governor has abused the people of Texas.”

— U.S. Rep Joaquin Castro

Speaking outside the burgeoning ICE warehouse (and would-be concentration camp) we asked if @joaquincastrotx had hope for the movement against ICE in Texas, comparing our condition w/ movement efforts in other states. He highlighted the fact that Minnesota, Illinois, and California had governors who worked to protect their residents from ICE. By contrast, he went after Governor Abbott.

"The governor has forced local law enforcement on some level to participate with ICE. So you need a new governor, and you need a new state legislature that's gonna change the law.”

He adds here his anger w/ small-town mayors and councils around San Antonio (include among those volunteering 287g agreements (these now include: China Grove, St. Hedwig, Sandy Oaks, Hollywood Park, Balcones Heights, and Von Ormy).

"I'm extremely disappointed and concerned with the mayors and city councils in China Grove and Balcones Heights and other cities that have decided to balance their budgets on the backs of their people and their communities and residents, because they have turned their police officers into ice agents."

On Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, hundreds of San Antonio residents marched in East San Antonio against a massive proposed ICE detention center now in development. After a two-mile march, they gathered outside the 640,000-square-foot warehouse (542 SE Loop 410) expected to be used to house thousands of detained people caught up in growing national deportation-industrial complex tied to escalating cases of abuse.

Story coming to Deceleration.news. taken in San Antonio, Texas by @deceleration_news

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Today is the last day to register to vote in Texas:

VOTETEXAS.GOV

We turn our voting PSA to Father Drennan, who proved he understands that la luche sigue. Voting is a starting point, not an end point, to a lifetime mobilization.

“This march will not end today. It will not end tomorrow. It will not end in 2 years when we see changes in the highest office. No, this march must continue for the years to come until the hate that is governing our country is brought to an end.”

— Father Jimmy Drennan, COPS/Metro

As a bioregional community news project we cover a lot of protests. Sometimes all we hear at the marches is vote, vote, vote. People are being beaten down and abused today, but in a year, in two years, in four years: vote. There are others who only grudgingly allow voting as part of our community obligations as “the least we can do.” We vote but we also organize our neighborhood to make sure everyone has their needs met. We vote but we also join unions to lift the power of workers. We vote but we also boycott and educate to end genocides and pogroms abroad and at home. We urge folks to undertake all of the above to preserve the slimmest of chances that we may have a multi-racial democracy capable of contending with all of these issues going forward. Voting is, as Rebecca Solnit says, “a chess move not a valentine.” If it did not matter, what's with all the gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinformation, election denial, etc. etc. etc. It is one of many tools (the beginning not the end of our political lives) that creates the conditions under which we want to continue the struggle.

Deceleration.news taken in San Antonio, Texas by @deceleration_news

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“We've got to get the lawsuit going with the city and the county [against ICE],” said Tommy Calvert, Bexar County Commissioner in Precinct 4, who helped organize Saturday's march against an proposed ICE detention center.

“We're on the late train. We were the last one in the country to file and the only one that still has an ICE detention center going.”

But he had a word of caution for his colleagues at San Antonio City Council who have been pursuing a possible federal environmental review of the site.

On Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, hundreds of San Antonio residents marched in East San Antonio against a massive proposed ICE detention center now in development. After a two-mile march, they gathered outside the 640,000-square-foot warehouse (542 SE Loop 410) expected to be used to house thousands of detained people caught up in growing national deportation-industrial complex tied to escalating cases of abuse.

Video by Greg Harman, interviewed by Roxana Rojas

Subscribe to Roxana’s newsletter ICE Watch at Deceleration.news. taken in San Antonio, Texas by @deceleration_news

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