The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: May 29
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!
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The CAFTA Template: Understanding Central American Migration in a Time of Dispossession, Repression, and Environmental Crisis
Expert Jorge Cuellar discusses how countries remain exploited "tributary societies to the US," while that "sacred policy—the Central American Free Trade Agreement—has remained untouched."
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Harvesting Hope in Tucson: A Q&A with Amelia Natoli of the Ishkashitaa Refugee Network
Development Director Amelia Natoli discusses building community with recently arrived refugees and Tucson volunteers through harvesting food, making art, and fostering connection.
Across the Borderlands, Wall Construction Threatens Sacred Sites
Like environmental regulations, cultural-and historic-preservation laws are being systematically waived for wall construction—and border communities are paying the price.
The Southwest's Ellis Island: A Q&A with Jazmine Ulloa, author of El Paso
"The history of migration through El Paso is one that’s been forgotten and overlooked, even though these workers—and not just workers but intellectuals, activists, and poets—helped shape the American Southwest as we know it today."
A Q&A with Human Rights Archaeologist Gabriella Soto
“For a long time, a big proportion of the American public said that border security was their most important issue. People are starting to realize what that means in terms of the violence entailed.”