Countering negative narratives with an event that honors interconnectedness and subverts the border in Agua Prieta/Douglas, and a contested hotel--in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley--that is of great importance for Mexican American civil rights.
There is a reckoning with history happening at an old hotel with a horrific past and the RGV's first and only civil rights museum.
A binational gathering shows that the borderlands community seeks peace and unity, not a manufactured war zone.
Countering negative narratives with an event that honors interconnectedness and subverts the border in Agua Prieta/Douglas, and a contested hotel--in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley--that is of great importance for Mexican American civil rights.
A reminder that last week The Border Chronicle launched Wall Watch, a new community mapping tool for border wall construction and other border infrastructure.
Border residents can submit reports on construction, staging sites, surveying etc. to the Wall Watch border-wide interactive map. We’ve already added more than 20 community reports from Texas and Arizona since the launch. It’s easy to submit a report, and it helps build an accurate picture of wall construction and buoy barrier installation as it is happening across the U.S.-Mexico border region.
Wall Watch’s interactive map will be continuously updated over the next year and for many years to come. Before Wall Watch, there was no reliable border-wide map or database for current border wall construction. We’ve also added other data to the map, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s border surveillance data. And we plan to add other useful data in the coming months. So please spread the word about Wall Watch and submit a community report! And if you’re using Wall Watch, send us feedback at wallwatch@theborderchronicle.com.
Michael Gonzalez
Todd Miller
Heads up, Tucson! Border Chronicle's environment and arts reporter, Caroline Tracey, will be in conversation with writer Kimon de Greef about his new book The Ego Trip, about the Sonoran Desert Toad and the complicated psychedelic industry that surrounds it, on September 3 at Desierto Books (in the Mercado Annex). You can read more about de Greef's book in our August 4 interview with him.
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As DHS gaslights border communities, help document the reality on Wall Watch, our new community powered map for border wall construction, and a podcast from the resistance in Lochiel, Arizona, where protestors try to save the last ancient Cottonwood tree from bulldozers.
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