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 quest to figure out what is happening with the razor wire in Nogales. Part of it has been removed. But is this permanent? And what does this have to do with new technology? Read on!
How the European Union is funding the International Organization for Migration to enact brutal border operations in the Balkans.
As widespread election border theater kicks in, the director of the Surveillance Resistance Lab talks about smart borders, border externalization, “identity dominance,” and what can be done about it.
"The border has become the next war zone for the military industrial complex.”
"Israel’s brutal crackdown in Gaza is a bleak reminder of how authoritarianism and technology go hand in hand, as rockets and drones in the sky dim the stars of Bethlehem."
Renowned Palestinian scientist and environmentalist Mazin Qumsiyeh visits a surveillance tower first tested in the West Bank and speaks of the need for a “joint struggle.”
What policy shift? It’s business as usual for the border-enforcement machine as shown at the Border Security Expo in El Paso.
A "massive expansion" of surveillance, spurred by private industry, moves beyond the border in California.
The U.S. government is doubling down on surveillance, but residents have little input or idea of how it impacts their privacy. Maass talks about EFF's new project to map the "virtual wall."
Last year was the most profitable on record for border contractors, and by all indications there will be more to reap in 2023.
A deep look with the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the fortification of surveillance on the border. As Nogales mayor Arturo Garino asked: “Would you want to have a blimp above your house?”
In this discussion we take a close look at the “global panopticon,” robotic dogs, the border-industrial complex, and what all this has to do with the changing climate.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.