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!
Environment
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How Do You Live in a ‘Disabled Ecology’?
A new exhibition in Tucson commemorates community resistance to the borderlands’ military-industrial complex.
We Just Want the Chance to Stay: Stories from Guatemala and the Borderlands on Climate and Belonging
“That, to me, is what climate adaptation should look like: It’s small cooperatives, youth projects, local entrepreneurship: investments that don’t just protect against storms but nurture belonging."
“We pay for borders with everything"
An interview with Russ McSpadden about his debut poetry collection, Borderlings.
La Junta de los Ríos: Reporter’s Notebook from Presidio and Big Bend
It is false that a river is a good political border. It is the opposite. A river attracts, creates, and foments life. This includes bears.
As AI Data Centers Target the Water-Scarce Borderlands, New Mexico Invests in Desalination
Meanwhile, community members worry about stealth approval processes and a lack of transparency.
Can the Water Resiliency Fund Help Revive the Endangered Rio Grande?
“It’s billions of dollars to focus on this, and this is all hands on deck," says Jesse Hereford, a NADBank official.
Wild Waters and Unfulfilled Promises
Photographer Eunice Adorno captures Mexico’s aging dams as “monuments to an idea of progress that never arrived."
Comunidades se oponen a SpaceX en Tamaulipas
Un grupo ambientalista Mexicano dice que los lanzamientos de cohetes de Elon Musk desde el sur de Texas están matando tortugas, dañando hogares y ensuciando las playas de Tamaulipas con escombros.
Communities Push Back against SpaceX in Tamaulipas
A Mexican conservation group says Elon Musk’s rocket launches from South Texas are killing turtles, damaging homes, and littering Tamaulipas beaches with debris.
Night Exposures
Photographer Marni Shindelman’s series Restore the Night Sky illuminates America’s hidden detention centers from an unexpected angle.
A Q&A with Historian Marco Antonio Samaniego on the New Tijuana River Agreement
“If the U.S. and Mexico are going to agree on one thing, it’s water.”
Beating the Heat: Border Cyclists Fight for Better Infrastructure
In Mexicali, where temperatures soar above 120 degrees, organized cyclists are working toward a more livable city, says Denahi Valdez, founder of El Laboratorio de Invención para la Ciudad