The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 5
The Border Chronicle hangs out with legendary journalist Amy Goodman, plus big tech and the "everywhere border" and a podcast about Latin American art and the borderlands and more!
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Sasabe Notebook: Big Contracts, New Border Walls, and a Humanitarian Crisis
In this exceptionally beautiful swath of the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, there is a collision of expensive border infrastructure construction and increasing numbers of people seeking asylum.
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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.