Archive for Category: "Militarization of the Border"
Probe of Border Agency Opens Amidst Wave of Deadly Shootings
Southern Border Region | After years of advocating for the Federal Government to control the U.S. Border Patrol, the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) has learned that the Office of the Inspector General will be conducting an investigation that will look into cases of brutality or use of excessive force by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents. The [...]
Southern Border Communities Outraged as Department of Justice Fails to Prosecute 2010 Killing of Teenager by Border Patrol
SAN DIEGO, CA – The Southern Border Communities Coalition condemns the Department of Justice decision not to prosecute the Border Patrol agent responsible for killing 15 year-old Ciudad Juarez resident Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca. The violent incident was caught on video by bystanders and sent shockwaves across the borderlands on June 7, 2010. As Sergio [...]
New bill allows more militarization of public lands
Protecting our public wildlands just got a little harder. On October 5, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Natural Resources Committee passed the unpopular National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act (HR 1505) by a vote of 26 to 17. The bill prohibits the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) [...]
Scenes From an Occupation
Activists, writers and documentary photographers and filmmakers concerned with the U.S.-Mexico border wall are increasingly demonstrating the parallels between the wall in the U.S. and the Apartheid Wall that Israel is building to fragment and contain Palestinian lands. In this review Joseph Nevins, author of Operation Gatekeeper: the rise of the “illegal alien” and the [...]
A step forward for Friendship Park
Today in San Diego’s local online newspaper VoiceofSanDiego.org, an article was published that clearly articulates our position and demonstrates that Border Patrol officials have heard and acknowledged our demands. A limited victory, certainly, but a long way from the silencing and refusal to take our plan seriously we have experienced in the past. After 8-9 [...]
Friends of Friendship Park to Unveil Design Celebrating Bi-national Cooperation
WHEN: Wednesday, February 9, 5:30 p.m. WHAT: Press Conference Unveiling of Proposed Design for Friendship Park WHERE: Marina Vista Community Center, 1075 8th St., Imperial Beach CA (MAP: http://mapq.st/hrUxOI) In advance of a Thursday event which will see the First Lady of Mexico inaugurate new developments at Parque del Mar on the Tijuana side of [...]
Border Crossing: Communion at Friendship Park
October 7, 2008 by John Fanestil Originally published in The Christian Century NOTE: This article was recognized by the Associated Church Press with its 2008 Award of Merit, the citation reading: “In this well-written article, the author uses the lens of his experience to focus on the larger issue of U.S.-Mexico border policy. A compelling [...]
CONTAINMENT SOCIETY: REPRODUCING DETENTION AT FRIENDSHIP PARK
March 22, 2010 by Pedro Rios Originally published on Detention Watch Network Detention Watch Network chose the image of San Diego’s Friendship Park to represent our “Dignity not Detention” campaign (see on left). To explain its significance, we asked Pedro Rios of American Friends Service Committee in San Diego to write about his experience with [...]
School Board Vote to Regulate Military Recruitment in Schools
WE NEED YOU and YOUR CHILD on TUESDAY– COME and SPEAK OUT in SUPPORT OF THIS POLICY! Pass the Policy to Regulate Recruiting in San Diego Schools! ¡Aprueben el reglamento que regule el reclutamiento en las escuelas de San Diego! CONTACT: Education Not Arms Coalition educationnotarms@gmail.com 760-634-3604 http://www.projectyano.org/educationnotarms/ San Diego Unified Board meeting location: Auditorium, [...]
Border residents oppose calls for deployment of the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border
San Diego organizations join a borderwide network Contact: Ricardo Favela Strategic Communications Coordinator San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (760) 468-4519 communicate@immigrantsandiego.org. Louie Gilot Policy Director, Border Network for Human Rights 2115 N. Piedras, El Paso, TX 79930 (915) 274-0541 lgilot@bnhr.org. May 26, 2010 — Organizations representing border communities from San Diego to Brownsville have written [...]
