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  • 26: Thanos Was An Ecofascist (But You Don't Have to Be)

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    This week, Deceleration speaks with the amazing team behind the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative, who utilize Marvel characters to educate the public about the dangerous fallacies behind fascistic thinking on global environmental challenges. Their webzine is a powerful and gorgeous read. In it they demonstrate how many of these dangerous concepts come straight out of Western environmental canon. They also show clearly why they are logically wrong. And who they ultimately serve. Wanna help stop the creep of ecofascistic ideas informing the manifestos of racist mass murderers? Here's some powerful food for thought. Write to the creators themselves at: [email protected]. Image: Courtesy Marvel

    Guests: April Anson, Cassie Galentine, Shane Hall, Alex Menrisky, & Bruno Seraphin

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    1 hr 16 min
  • 25: Cris Eugster & Evergreen Bringing New Solar Model to Texas

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    Somewhere in between decentralized rooftop solar and sprawling rural utility-scale solar farms is a middle path that could allow companies go 100-percent renewable in under a year. New solar startup Evergreen is about to unleash the "Goldilocks" of solar with a trio of projects in South Texas. And they expect to scale up quickly in this overlooked niche, says Evergreen CEO Cris Eugster. Local listeners may recognize that name as the former CPS Energy COO and one-time sustainability manager. "I feel like we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to figure out this energy transition and to tackle climate change," he said.

    Guest: Cris Eugster, Evergreen

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    44 min
  • 24: Who are the Tree and Bird Protectors of Brackenridge Park?

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    Who are the Tree and Bird Protectors of Brackenridge Park? They've been smeared as disinformation agents for linking a campaign to forcefully dislocate a thriving rookery of migratory birds the Brackenridge bond project that would claim more than 105 trees, ostensibly to restore and repair historic structures in the park. After saving the trees they pivoted to resist ongoing efforts to drive migratory birds away from Brackenridge's headwaters and uncovered evidence of forced displacement inside the SA Zoo.

    Guests: Alesia Garlock & Daniel Armstrong

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    58 min
  • 23: 'His Name is Albert': Climate, Housing, Displacement, Mutual Aid

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    What do we learn from a year-long intervention on behalf of an unhoused neighbor who lost limbs to Winter Storm Uri? That it takes dozens of interveners to make up for San Antonio’s broken safety net and lack of climate preparation. A serialized intervention by Deceleration Co-Editor Marisol Cortez.

    Guests: Maria Turvin, Yanawana Herbolarios; Rachel Tucker, Office of Councilmember Teri Castillo (D5); Marisol Cortez, Deceleration Co-Editor, Author; Hosting: Greg Harman, Deceleration Co-Editor

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    Update: RIP Albert Garcia.

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    1 hr 2 min
  • 22: George Garza Jr. On The New Deceleration Theme Musics

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    Deceleration talks to San Antonio musician George Garza Jr., well known and loved for this work with Pop Pistol and other projects, about the ideas and processes that went into creating the new Deceleration theme music. Some sound recordings came right off the street, but that world-to-come vibe came straight from the heart.

    Guest: George Garza Jr.

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    19 min
  • 21: Talkin' Trash with Mary Elizabeth Cantú of Spare Parts

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    Deceleration talks to Mary Elizabeth Cantú, founder and director of the Spare Parts Center for Creative Reuse, on their decade of work using ethics of reuse to assist underfunded educators in promoting creative work and critical thinking. How can waste open up space for thinking about the ecological and human labor devalued within capitalist economies?

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    30 min
  • 20: Darby Riley and CPS Energy Lawsuit

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    Several incoming San Antonio Council members want to freeze utility disconnections, reform CPS Energy rates, and close the Spruce coal plant early. They'd do well to listen to the attorney fighting CPS Energy's lawsuit to preserve the people's right to reform the utility by petition.

    Guest: Darby Riley

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    34 min
  • Deceleration Open House
    Deceleration's co-editors and community advisors host a public meeting to discuss our community media and research initiative, our aspirations and history, and how the effort may serve the needs of the residents of the greater San Antonio bioregion as we attack popular assumptions about progress and wellbeing. Here is the start of a public conversation to explore together how we can support collective efforts to create buen vivir para todxs--a good life for all.
    1 hr 36 min
  • 19: Karla Aguilar, the Alamo, and How to Recover from White Supremacy

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    Deceleration caught up with Karla Aguilar, development director of American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions about a number of pressing political issues, including potential state recognition for the Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation, now pending at the Texas Legislature. We speak at some length about the Settler/Colonial mindset at an outgrowth of white supremacy and how such ways of thinking manifest in the struggles around the redvelopment of San Antonio de Valero, aka The Alamo.

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    31 min
  • 18: Words for Birds, Day One (2021)

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    Day One of the 13th Annual "Words for Birds": A Poetic Celebration and a Cry for Protection! Featuring Masauki & Guadalupe Lagunes Jimenez, Dyhanara Rios, RitaMaria Contreras, Eddie Vega, Erika Maria Garza Johnson, Javier Fuentes Vargas, Alesia Garlock, the puppeteering of Mobi Warren, Kamala Platt, Laura Schultz, Megha Sood, Norma Jean Moore, and Odilia Galván Rodríguez, Author.

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    1 hr 16 min

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Deceleration Podcast is talking all things climate and environmental justice, rooted in San Antonio and the South Texas bioregion with global concerns. 


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