observing san diego-tijuana urban life 
There’s another side to border security. And it has nothing to do with so-called spillover violence we hear about so often in the mainstream media. This is the story of the power artists can wield when they work with the community. A community mural painted on the south face of […]
Cruces colgando en el muro en Playas de Tijuana
Mexican schoolchildren listen to a story about the thousands of migrants who have died trying to cross the border as workers from Casa de Migrante remove crosses from the border wall.
San Diego CityBeat’s Seth Combs considers the complicated decision of many bands to boycott Arizona in the wake of the vicious anti-immigrant law SB1070. Many bands feel that this one cuts both ways. From San Diego CityBeat Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Should they stay or should they go? A year […]
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 […]
Sponsored by SDSU Students for Justice in Palestine Join us on Facebook at SDSU Students for Justice in Palestine Schedule of Events March 1 & 2, Tues & Wednesday Life Behind the Wall SJP at SDSU will display a mock Apartheid Wall on Campanile Walkway at SDSU depicting the quality […]
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 […]
In July 2009, I met a group of French filmmakers from Marseilles at a border wall event at the Centro Cultural de la Raza. The filmmakers–Romain de l’Ecotais, Maxime Rostan and Guillaume Vidal–had been traveling for weeks through Latin America & Mexico, documenting border walls and migrations in the Americas. […]
Contributed by No Border Wall 4 February 2011 In 1994 President Clinton issued Executive Order 12898 to address the issue of Environmental Justice. It instructs federal agencies to identify and address actions that might have “disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects… on minority populations and low-income populations.” […]
December 16, 2010 Originally published in San Diego City Beat The second in our series on border art looks at the architect behind the proposed design of Friendship Park by Kinsee Morlan When James Brown was in his 20s, he walked, on a whim, from his house in San Diego […]
