We've got new merch! Pedro Rios documents the gradual walling off of Friendship Park in San Diego, and Amy Juan on long-distance running and resilience for the Tohono O'odham plus more from across the borderlands.
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Each year since 1995, the Tohono O’odham Nation has held the Unity Run. “These runs,” Amy Juan says,“not only have their purpose as prayer for the people and the land but also put us on the ground to actually see what is happening” on the border.
We've got new merch! Pedro Rios documents the gradual walling off of Friendship Park in San Diego, and Amy Juan on long-distance running and resilience for the Tohono O'odham plus more from across the borderlands.
Happy Friday! The Border Chronicle kicked off its first-ever Spring fundraiser yesterday as part of a new national initiative called Local News Day, to make the case for quality, community-based journalism. Since we launched in 2021, Todd and I have had the goal of reaching at least 2,000 paid subscribers. This would cover the salaries for two reporters. We're currently at 1,200 paid subscribers, so if 800 of our readers were to sign up for an annual subscription today at the affordable rate of $59 a year, we could become sustainable, and make a living wage. So now there's two ways to give, either through donating or (preferably) subscribing.
Also, new merch alert! For anyone who signs up today for $59 a year we'll send you a brand new Border Chronicle tote bag, in black or cream color. (Alien six-pack abs not included). For anyone upgrading their subscription to sustaining founder at $250 annual, we'll send you one of our brand new Border Chronicle hats in black (trucker style) or khaki green and a tote bag! Keep the sun out of your eyes and look cool at the same time!
Pedro Rios
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Buh Bye Kristi Noem, and who the heck is Markwayne Mullin? Trump's new pick for DHS secretary. Plus, an epic novel about the U.S. and Mexico's joint erasure of Apachería, and historian and author Lydia Otero on Tucson's racial and urban history, and more.
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