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Border Wall / Friendship Park
>Requiem for a Park
>By Jill Holslin SAN DIEGO | On Saturday, Feb 21, US Border Patrol forcibly denied US citizens access to Friendship Park, an historic plaza overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the US-Mexico Border. At noon, a group of 150 of us–local church choir members, university students, professors, human rights advocates, and […]
Border Wall / Friendship Park
Border Patrol confronts park patrons at Friendship Park
>San Diego Union-Tribune Sunday, February 22, 2009 Meeting place sealed off Border patrol agents prohibit access to Friendship Park by Penni Crabtree SOUTH COUNTY — In the end, immigration activists never made it to the site of yesterday’s planned demonstration, a plaza dubbed Friendship Park that sits on a bluff […]
Border Wall / Otay Mountain Wilderness Area / Tecate Peak
Bulldozing nature
From SignOn San Diego.com by the San Diego Union-Tribune LOCAL PERSPECTIVE Bulldozing nature By Char Miller 2:00 a.m. February 14, 2009 President George W. Bush is history. But the past has a funny way of maintaining a tight grip on the present. Just ask anyone who cares deeply about the […]
Border Wall / Friendship Park
>One Sunday at Friendship Park: A Film by Steev Hise
>A small group of community members meet every Sunday afternoon at this unique park on the U.S./Mexico border, but how much longer will they be allowed to do so? http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2933608&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1One Sunday At Friendship Park from steev hise on Vimeo.
Border Wall / Friendship Park
Siguen Celebraciones en Friendship Park
Comunicado de Prensa domingo, 18 de enero de 2009 17:00 P.M. Siguen Celebraciones en Friendship Park por Jill Holslin San Diego/Playas de Tijuana—A 13 días de que anunciaran El Departamento de Seguridad Interior (DHS) y la Patrulla Fronteriza de EE.UU. que Friendship Park estará cerrado permanentemente al público, se reúnieron […]
Border Wall / Friendship Park
>La Boca de Tijuana
>Cuando la boca del Rio runs into the ocean,when it rises onto the deltaand you hear its united tributaries undercut the sets of waves,when this Tijuana River meets this Pacific Ocean, its mouth says “I know both sides of the border.” Antes de la lectura en el faro,camino a la […]
Border Wall / Friendship Park
>Friendship Park Casualty of New Border Fence
>San Diego Channel 8, CBS News report on Friendship Park For Video, please click on title above. January 8, 2009 SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) — The Border Patrol will close a popular park on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean to make way for a triple fence along the Mexican […]
Border Wall / Friendship Park
>Senator Denise Ducheny Speaks Out Against Border Fence in Friendship Park
>San Diego Channel 9 KUSI Morning News, 9 Jan 2009 For VIDEO, click on title above SAN DIEGO | The federal government is in the process of erecting a triple fence that cuts through Friendship Park on the U.S./Mexico border. The park was often used as a gathering place for […]
Border Wall / Friendship Park
>Popular border spot won't be accessible
> San Diego Union-Tribuneby Leslie Berestein 2:00 a.m. January 9, 2009 SOUTH COUNTY — Frequent visitors to Border Field State Park, along with park officials, are expressing surprise and dismay over a sudden reversal of plans by U.S. Customs and Border Protection that will result in the permanent closing of […]