The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: July 10
Border grassroots organizing is winning in July; Who pays the price for Brownsville's tech and industrial boom? And Tijuana Art Week and NAFTA's lasting influence on Baja's landscape. Plus more!
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Femme Frontera: Creating Nuanced Border Narratives Through Film
“We can’t just sit here and wait to be invited to the table. Instead, we kicked down the door, and we made our own table," says Jackie Barragan.
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Reporter’s Notebook: NAFTA, Tijuana Art Week, and the Built Environment of the Baja Borderlands
A road trip through Baja California reveals how free trade, migration, and border policy have reshaped Tijuana's landscape, and why the uncertain future of the USMCA invites new questions about what comes next.
Trump’s Border Wall Is Coming for Some of the Oldest Murals in North America
A $2.6 billion border barrier through Texas' Lower Pecos Canyonlands has archaeologists warning that irreplaceable indigenous rock art and sacred sites could be destroyed.
The Manual Labor of Conservation
As housing projects, mines, and border wall construction accelerate habitat loss, photographer Eliseu Cavalcante documents the Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society’s efforts to preserve the desert’s iconic plants.
Vampires without Borders
Spanning a thousand years and multiple continents, the new novel Filth Eaters casts vampires as the world's ultimate stateless people.
