The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: May 29
Roller skating across borders, harvesting food and hope with Tucson's refugee community, and The Border Chronicle in conversation tonight with legendary journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
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A New Border Vision: A Q&A with Vicki Gaubeca of the Southern Border Communities Coalition
We discuss Border Patrol shadow units, the need to revitalize not militarize, and how borderlands communities could thrive if seen as the “vibrant, multilingual, and multicultural” places they are.
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Romeo and Juliet: How Star-Crossed Lovers Defied Borders on Roller Skates
Sometimes the best way to contest the border is to skate right through it and create a beautiful, binational community.
Harvesting Hope in Tucson: A Q&A with Amelia Natoli of the Ishkashitaa Refugee Network
Development Director Amelia Natoli discusses building community with recently arrived refugees and Tucson volunteers through harvesting food, making art, and fostering connection.
“Anybody, Anyplace, Anytime Can Be Removed”: Terror and Border Extension under Trump
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?
A History of Arizona Miners, Written on Gravestones: A Photo Essay about a Disappeared Borderlands Town
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.