Protesters shut down Border Patrol checkpoint for hours | KVOA.com | Tucson, Arizona

AMADO – Protesters rallied for Customs and Border Protection to remove a checkpoint on Arivaca Road near Interstate 19 on Sunday.

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Exporting the American Dream: Thoughts on “Free” Trade Agreements

 

“NAFTA, like most free trade agreements, is nothing remotely close to free. This policy singlehandedly destroyed the rural economy in Mexico and the lives of millions of regular working people.”

 
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Undoing Border Imperialism

 

Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. ”

 
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Noam Chomsky: How the U.S.-Mexico Border Is Cruel by Design

“The US-Mexican border, like most borders, was established by violence — and its architecture is the architecture of violence.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

An eleven page article.
There is also a button to “View as a Single Page

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Gathering at border marks 1 year since teen’s death

“Rodriguez died after being shot 10 times just before 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 10, 2012, on a street that runs just below the border fence. His family and protesters say he was an innocent bystander on his way to visit his brother Diego at the convenience store where he worked, when he was caught in a hail of bullets from the U.S. Border Patrol. ”
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Americans and Mexicans playing volleyball over the border in Arizona – Imgur

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Community Village‘s insight:

 

Best use of U.S. Mexico border. heh

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