Trump's big buoys arrive in Eagle Pass, a border resident arrested for nonviolent protest against wall construction in Zapata County, and catch our podcast with Yes Men prankster, political activist Jacques Servin and Todd who entirely reframe "border security."
This conversation, hosted by Todd Miller, about a great borderlands adobe brick building project is going great, until Jacques Servin—of the political performance artist trickster and activist troupe called the Yes Men—fails to grasp the meaning of the term "border security."
This month, Hull’s worst fears came true as contractors for Southwest Valley Constructors and Kiewit started bulldozing and scraping land near her home to construct a 30-foot border wall.
Trump's big buoys arrive in Eagle Pass, a border resident arrested for nonviolent protest against wall construction in Zapata County, and catch our podcast with Yes Men prankster, political activist Jacques Servin and Todd who entirely reframe "border security."
Typically as summer begins, our paid subscriptions start to decline just as events are heating up in the borderlands. Right now, border wall and floating buoy barriers are being installed at a rapid pace, in many cases without consent of the communities, and with federal laws waived to speed the destruction. There's also SpaceX encroaching further on environmentally sensitive coastal land, detention warehouses and data centers. We'd like to dig into these issues and more, but investigative journalism takes time and resources.
In March, thanks to our paid subscribers, we were able to do a border-wide investigation on the impacts of the military taking over more than 40 percent of the border, and expose in February how the DEA and CBP are building a hidden network of surveillance at the Arizona-Mexico border.
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Melissa del Bosque
Todd Miller
Buoy Barrier arrived at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas this week. Frontera Federation co-founder Amérika García Grewal who lives in Eagle Pass reports on their arrival.
Meanwhile on the norther border:
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!
Roller skating across borders, harvesting food and hope with Tucson's refugee community, and The Border Chronicle in conversation tonight with legendary journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
An expanding definition of "terror" ignites a more bellicose extension of the U.S. border abroad. A history of labor and mining and community written on borderlands' gravestones. And The Border Chronicle in Douglas and with Amy Goodman this coming week.
The Trump Administration is destroying sacred sites for more border wall, a podcast on a new investigation into the massive surveillance tower opening in Ciudad Juárez, plus more events and news from the borderlands.
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