observing san diego-tijuana urban life 
In Tijuana, urban art is everywhere, and artists find their most important contributions lie in the way their work can reactivate spaces that lie far beyond the official “front stage” of tidy commerce in the city. As the urban theorist Michel de Certeau argued in The Practice of Everyday Life, […]
Join Breakthrough and filmmakers Dana Variano and Ishita Srivastava and raise your voice against one of the most pressing human rights tragedies today: the everyday deaths of migrants crossing through the deserts and mountains of the southwest United States. “The remains of at least 6,000 migrants have been found in U.S. desert […]
Friendship Park is a half an acre plaza overlooking thePacific Ocean at the southwest corner of the continentalUnited States. The plaza sits atop Monument Mesa, a six acre state park property with restroom and picnic facilities, and part of a larger 800-acre Border Field State Park. At the center stands […]
I first saw Victor’s home last week when I was down in Tijuana’s Zona Norte. I was shooting photos of a mural my friends are working on at the corner of Niños Heroes and Avenida Internacional. And there it was, a mattress and a pile of personal belongings covered with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
