Post Tagged with: "border narrative"

Deported U.S. Veterans wait in Tijuana, hope to return home to families
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Deported U.S. Veterans wait in Tijuana, hope to return home to families

“What would happen if we tore down this wall at the border? Look at the world we live in.” Hector Barajas understands the need for the United States to guard its borders, he tells me, as we sit next to the border wall in Tijuana, Mexico. “Look at where we’re […]

Rene Peralta, Principle Architect of Generica, on the future of Tijuana
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Rene Peralta, Principle Architect of Generica, on the future of Tijuana

Paola D. Aguirre, creator and co-director of the interdisciplinary project, The Borderless Workshop, interviews Tijuana architect Rene Peralta, on the future of our border. Peralta is a professor and director of the Master’s Program in Landscape Urbanism at Woodbury University in San Diego, and is principle architect in his own […]

Vistas del paso: historia de la imagen del muro fronterizo
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Vistas del paso: historia de la imagen del muro fronterizo

En la Universidad IBEROAMERICANA, Tijuana, el 24 de octubre a las 9:00-11:00 am, en el Audiotorio Loyola, Jill Marie Holslin, fotógrafa y escritora norteamericana, va a presentar una plática sobre sus fotografías del muro fronterizo. Desde la fundación de la frontera oficial entre México y los Estados Unidos por El […]

El Muro: What are we destroying to protect? a film by Greg Rainoff
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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 […]

Sierra Club joins Immigrants Rights Orgs in a united call for a Path to Citizenship
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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 […]

Occidente Nuevo: Recycled Tijuana
Tijuana Colonias

Occidente Nuevo: Recycled Tijuana

In their first exhibition of this work in Tijuana in April of 2013, photographers Anthony Paul Marchetti and Laura Migliorino continue in the tradition of a number of Tijuana and San Diego artists who have focused on the innovative methods of “construction by necessity” in Tijuana’s colonias. This new show […]

Tijuana Alley Art at VISUAL in San Diego’s Normal Heights
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Tijuana Alley Art at VISUAL in San Diego’s Normal Heights

March 9, 2013  SATURDAY NIGHT  6-10 PM VISUAL Shop  3524 Adams Ave  San Diego, CA 92116  With wheatpaste art & paintings by Tijuana artists: 1102, Panca, and Spel Teodora Craft beer by Francisco J. Garcia of Studio 2287, Tijuana  The concept of my exhibition is to explore—through my photos— “that […]

Truth on the Line webisode 1
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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 […]