An expanding definition of "terror" ignites a more bellicose extension of the U.S. border abroad. A history of labor and mining and community written on borderlands' gravestones. And The Border Chronicle in Douglas and with Amy Goodman this coming week.
Just what did U.S. officials at the Border Security Expo earlier this month say about U.S. foreign policy, border extension, and a revival of the war on terror?
Mining operations have been in the center of borderland labor conflicts for more than a century. These photos tell the moving story of one such town, through its cemetery.
"We never take away hope. I mean, that's our whole thing. If you don't have it, then what are we doing this for?"
"The history of migration through El Paso is one that’s been forgotten and overlooked, even though these workers—and not just workers but intellectuals, activists, and poets—helped shape the American Southwest as we know it today."
“For a long time, a big proportion of the American public said that border security was their most important issue. People are starting to realize what that means in terms of the violence entailed.”
A Q&A and exclusive screening of a documentary short by award-winning filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz.
The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. But now it's gone dark.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.
