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!
A lively conversation about how surveillance tech, created and tested in Israel & the US, targets climate refugees across the world. And how refugees have much better solutions than more of the same.
A cross-border gathering evokes a creative world of “gritty hope” in the face of new wall construction.
Local environmental justice groups have been warning federal regulatory agencies about possible explosions at the Starbase facility for a decade.
According to residents, officials have not produced an environmental impact statement, structural plans, or a cost-benefit analysis, nor have they consulted affected communities, as required by law.
Climate displacement and border enforcement--two dynamics trending distinctly upward--are on a collision course.
“If these bills get passed, there’s nothing stopping other billionaires from creating their own company towns and owning more of Texas,” said Bekah Hinojosa, a local activist.
Taking back the Rio Grande/Río Bravo as a river, not a border checkpoint.
The river is drying up, while Texas's elected leaders ignore the real border crisis.
The grasslands of Sonora, Mexico, haven’t seen bird counts in 15 years. Now, ranchers and biologists are teaming up to assess, and protect, North America's avian diversity.
Former IBWC Commissioner Maria-Elena Giner, a border native who led significant water infrastructure projects, was ousted last week by President Donald Trump amid ongoing U.S.-Mexico water disputes.
Arizona's San Rafael Valley and other critical wildlife corridors in the borderlands are targeted by the Trump Administration for new wall construction.
Researchers launch a new program that uses AI and collaborative mapping to help border residents in need after flooding disasters.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.