The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 26
The efforts to preserve the desert's iconic plants, resist the destruction of ancient trees, and deal with the harassing border machine, even after deportation.
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The Borderlands Are Not Flooded with Fentanyl: A Q&A with Dr. Melody Glenn, author of Mother of Methadone
“The fact that this is being used as justification to militarize the border has been shocking for me to watch."
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The Manual Labor of Conservation
As housing projects, mines, and border wall construction accelerate habitat loss, photographer Eliseu Cavalcante documents the Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society’s efforts to preserve the desert’s iconic plants.
Vampires without Borders
Spanning a thousand years and multiple continents, the new novel Filth Eaters casts vampires as the world's ultimate stateless people.
“They Don’t Care About Any Law”: A Q&A with Elsa Hull on Her Arrest While Opposing Border Wall Construction
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.
Bringing the Border into Latin American Art: A Podcast with Gabriela Rangel
Gabriela Rangel, executive director of Tucson’s Museum of Contemporary Art, was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. As a