How corporations are bringing the battlefield home…and making a killing!
See on www.borderinc.org
Border walls
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.”
See on www.racefiles.com
Families of Border Victims Travel to DC to Highlight Lives Lost Due to Increased Border Militarization
See on soboco.org
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. ”
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”
See on www.alternet.org
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. ”
See on soboco.org
Don’t shoot! I want to grow up.
News, photos, stories, and trouble from the borderland (by Claire Marie O’Brien)
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
See on imgur.com
Lawsuit: Border Patrol should not have hired agent who killed woman
A San Diego family filed a new lawsuit against the Border Patrol and one of its agent. They told Team 10 the federal agent had no business having a badge or a gun.
Woman’s little girl speaks publicly for first time
See on www.10news.com
Border Patrol Blasted At United Nations for Killing Mexicans
The U.S. Border Patrol is facing criticism at the United Nations for killing Mexicans.
See on www.huffingtonpost.com