“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. ”
“The US-Mexican border, like most borders, was established by violence — and its architecture is the architecture of violence.”
An eleven page article.
There is also a button to “View as a Single Page”
See on www.alternet.org
Today he funds or supports 22 American companies, but entrepreneur Manu Kumar was once almost deported. Here’s why he supports March for Innovation.
More people mean more job creators and more employee’s to contribute to the economy.
See on mashable.com
Walk the aisles of any neighborhood grocery store today and you’re as likely to find tomatoes picked in Sinaloa, Mexico, as Central California or oranges from Sao Paulo, Brazil, as Bradenton, Fla.
First the U.S. exported manufacturing jobs, now the U.S. is exporting harvesting jobs.
The U.S. is growing more dependant on foreign countries to feed itself.
See on www.sacbee.com
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
WNYC reporter Sarah Abdurrahman is detained at the border along with multiple family members, and is now filing an official complaint
See on colorlines.com
(FinalCall.com) – Speaking on the so-called immigration controversy during his Oct. 21, 2012 address, Minister Farrakhan said everyone should be given the pa…
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Germany’s Refugee Policy Tested By New Arrivals : Parallels : NPR. As many as 5,000 Syrian refugees are after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government agreed to a U.N. request to host them. But they a…
The Fence
Examines the impact of the controversial fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The whole movie is available through HBO or HBO Go.
Apple TV now has access to HBO Go.
In this short documentary they show
“The bill passed by the Senate in July attempts to solve the problem of illegal immigration with a $46 billion “border surge,” adding 20,000 new Border Patrol agents, and $3 billion in new monitoring technology. But sheriffs policing the border say that misses the mark.”
My tax dollars at ‘work’ again, propping up xenophobia.
On the positive side though, this might reduce the number of deaths in the desert.
See on www.usatoday.com
