Archive for Category: "Border Wall"
El Muro: What are we destroying to protect? a film by Greg Rainoff
In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security began the construction of a second, massive border wall along the US-Mexico border through private property, national and state parks, wildlife preserves, sacred lands. The construction was speeded along by a provision of the Real ID Act, passed by Congress in 2005. Section 102 of the Real ID [...]
Sierra Club joins Immigrants Rights Orgs in a united call for a Path to Citizenship
In a surprising and welcome move this week, the national board of the Sierra Club voted on Wednesday to support comprehensive immigration reform. The move unifies the Sierra Club and the already powerful immigrant rights movement, bringing hefty political clout to the support of a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants. [...]
Deported Veterans in distress
Yesterday, in Playas de Tijuana, my friend Maria Teresa and I came upon the group Banished Veterans painting a new mural on the border wall. Click here for photos on Flickr. Designed by the San Francisco artist and U.S. Navy veteran Amos Gregory, the mural is an expression of the feelings of an estimated 50 [...]
Friendship Park to remain open to the public
Nobody ever thought keeping a little park open would be so much work. But protecting public access to Friendship Park has turned into a full-time job for members of the Friends of Friendship Park. After two weeks of uncertainty and an announcement from Border Patrol on March 18 that the park would be closed because [...]
Working toward a better border: California Values Statement on Immigration Reform
Does Washington really “get” the border? As we on the southwest border watch our leaders in Washington D.C. debate the complexities of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, we often feel that Washington is out of touch with the everyday realities of California. To cross the border at San Ysidro to go buy some groceries at Sprouts or [...]
A Better Border: Progressives Respond to Senators’ Principles for Immigration Reform
Today, the U.S. Senators charged with developing the new immigration legislation released a bipartison framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. The leadership group, nicknamed the “Gang of 8,” includes Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY), John McCain (R-AZ) Dick Durbin (D-IL), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Robert Menendez (D-NY), Mark Rubio (R-FL), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Jeff Flake (R-AZ). The framework. made available [...]
Truth on the Line webisode 2
Truth On The Line is a story about media, journalism, immigration, and life, written and directed by my friend Steev Hise. By the way, please show your support and help Steev and other writers, artists and filmmakers who are working to change the narrative of our border. I gave Steev a donation right after I [...]
Checkpoint Nation? Building Community Across Borders
In the wake of panic and anti-immigrant hysteria following the murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz in March of 2010, Arizona legislators passed SB1070, the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, one month later on April 23, 2010. The broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in recent U.S. history, the law required that [...]
Truth on the Line webisode 1
Truth On The Line is a story about media, journalism, immigration, and life, written and directed by my friend Steev Hise. Steev is a multimedia artist living in Tucson, Arizona, and producer of many excellent films, including “On the Edge,” a documentary about the femicides in Ciudad Juarez. By the way, please show your support [...]
Communion returns to Friendship Park this Sunday
This Sunday, October 14, at 1 pm two pastors – one standing in Mexico and one in the United States – will serve communion at Friendship Park, the historic meeting place on the U.S.-Mexico border. Update: READ HERE Reverend John Fanestil’s account of the communion service. This past week officials from San Diego Border Patrol [...]
