The Binational Garden at Friendship Park
A big thanks to Megan Zapanta from Amherst College for creating this lovely video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpLMumHGonI&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
observing san diego-tijuana urban life Border Wall
Friendship Park
Friendship Park
Cerraron El Parque de la Amistad
Primer Impacto 3 diciembre 2009 Se encuentra situado en la frontera de Tijuana y San Diego Haga clic en el enlace para tocar el video–click the link above to play the video
Border Wall
The 800 Mile Wall: film challenges the deadly politics of border security
NOTE: This film was screened in San Diego in 2009, but is available for purchase at 800MileWall.org Screening Dec 3, 2009 at Joe & Vi Jacobs Center, 404 Euclid Ave San Diego, CA- So far this year, 206 migrants have died in […]
Border Wall / Smuggler's Gulch
BORDER FENCE: Smuggler’s Gulch project a ‘disaster’ for estuary, critics say
Originally published 15 January 2009 by April Reese, E&E Western reporter LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE This article is part of an occasional series on the environmental impacts of the new border fence being constructed along the U.S.-Mexico border. IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. — Newly filled with 1.3 million cubic yards of […]
Border Wall / Otay Mountain Wilderness Area
Mexico, U.S., Canada to protect wilderness across borders
from NATGEO Newswatch 7 November 2009 LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE Merida, Mexico | Canada, Mexico, and the United States have become the first countries to agree formally to cooperate on wilderness conservation measures across a continent, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón announced. Calderón made the announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding […]
Border Wall / Friendship Park
>Friendship Park: One Wall Falls, another Rises
> Friendship Park Vigil on the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, Nov 9 Noon at Friendship Park On this historic anniversary, Border Patrol construction crews have created a limited “public access area” inside Friendship Park that would prevent visitors on the U.S. side from drawing […]
Border Wall / Friendship Park
>POSTPONED: Encuentro at the Border @ the CENTRO Cultural de la Raza
> PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER Stay tuned for dates and times. Thank you. @ the CENTRO Cultural de la Raza2004 Park Blvd SD 92104 Friends of Friendship Park present:Encuentro at the Border A night of photos and discussion of the border wall in San Diego, […]
Border Wall / Friendship Park
>Distant Neighbors: Homeland Security should reopen Friendship Park at border
> EDITORIAL San Diego Union-Tribune June 2, 2009 If the United States had a rational immigration policy, there would be no need for costly fences and other invidious barriers along the Mexican border. Illegal immigration could be curtailed far more effectively, and cheaply, with a secure worker identification system and […]
Border Wall / Friendship Park
>Federal officials create opening over border fence public access
>San Diego Union-Tribune by Leslie Berestein, Union-Tribune Staff Writer 2:00 a.m. June 1, 2009 SOUTH COUNTY — Less than five months after federal officials pulled the plug on public access through a new border fence to a historic monument at Border Field State Park, the possibility is back on the […]
Border Wall / Texas Border Wall
US-Mexico Border Wall Slicing through Fragile Ecosystems
Amy Goodman interviews Isabel Garcia of Derechos Humanos, and Sean Sullivan of Sierra Club Borderlands Team, and Dan Millis of No More Deaths, on the Border Wall. “We take a look at the environmental impact of the 600 miles of barricades along the US-Mexico border. The wall slices across fragile […]