observing san diego-tijuana urban life 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 […]
Here’s a piece by my friend Scott Nicol in response to the most recent border bill proposed by Representative Rob Bishop (R-UT). Bishop is stoking the fires of anti-immigrant hysteria, and in the process, advancing a myth that an alleged conflict between local land managers and border patrol agents and […]
Another terrific article about Friendship Park indicating that we are getting our message out to the media. National security cannot be secured through militarization of the border or some unrealistic and impossible ideal of operational control measured by zero unauthorized crossings. Rather, security can only be achieved through partnership, trust […]
Friday, April 1, 2011 (Originally published in La Prensa San Diego) By Kathleen Maclay UC BERKELEY The U.S.-Mexico border wall may be here to stay, but a University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor of architecture has some provocative ideas about how to redesign the barrier to slow illegal immigration and […]
The University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute presents Border Film Week March 28-31 All films screen from 6-8 PM. Free and open to the public March 28, 2011 in Warren Auditorium, SOLES building “Tijuaneados Anonimos” The border city of Tijuana, México is experiencing a crisis of unprecedented violence and ungovernability, this situation […]
Another nice local story on the border wall in Friendship Park, reaching out to the San Diego State student community. from The Daily Aztec Friendship Park divided by border wall Ana Ceballos, staff writer March 9, 2011 At a time of commotion concerning immigration and a constant battle […]
Another terrific article in the news today about our efforts to negotiate with the Border Patrol for public access to Friendship Park. From SignOnSanDiego.com Border Patrol and Friendship Park advocates compromise on design By ELIZABETH AGUILERA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2011 AT 7:04 P.M. Future visitors to 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 […]
LAST fall, the Media Arts Center in San Diego’s Teen Producers Project interviewed me and made a video about my project documenting the construction of the border wall. Thanks for your great work, teens! Click here for the video, called DIVIDING LINE
Check out this Wednesday night speaker series sponsored by my friend and colleague Jamie Gates, at Point Loma Nazarene University. Critical analysis of social issues and smart conversation from a faith perspective. Sponsored by Point Loma Nazarene University’s Center for Justice and Reconciliation, the Brewed Awakening series gives a platform […]