#ElPasoFirme: Border Network Brings Compassion in midst of Violence, Militarization
By Kimberly St Fleur “Mommy! Mommy! I see my dad!” Those were some of the words I heard while in El Paso, Texas volunteering at the seventh edition of the […]
Empire of Borders: On Security, Democracy and the Money Behind the Expanding Global Border System
An interview with Todd Miller Todd Miller, winner of the 2018 Izzy Award for investigative journalism, has written three books about borders. On October 22, he gave a talk at […]
Standing in the Middle: ‘Hugs Not Walls’ and Mestiza Consciousness
By Gabriel Fernandes On October 26 I got to be part of history being written. For four hours on that day in El Paso, Texas, the border between the United […]
Celebrated Undocumented Activist, Protagonist of Infiltrators Film, Faces Deportation
By Daniela Rivero Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra’s 2019 documentary The Infiltrators tells the story of two young undocumented activists who successfully infiltrated an ICE detention center in Broward County, […]
‘We’ve never seen so many attacks on our community’: Border Network Leader García Shares Responses to Violence at U.S.-Mexico Border
CUSLAR-LASP Public Issues Forum Lecture by Fernando García Fernando García, founder and executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights, gave a lecture titled “Border Communities, Racial Inequalities, and […]
The Challenge of Constructing Peace in Colombia
By Rebekah Jones At the heart of any policy implementation lies a core proposition, a request of change in behavior or thought. As Pressman and Wildavsky highlight, to equate policy […]
Hugs Not Walls: The Border Issue of the CUSLAR Newsletter
By Tim W. Shenk Coordinator, Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) Excerpted from the opening article of the issue, Making Sanctuary: Claiming and Defending our Human Rights. Access the full […]
Making Sanctuary: Claiming and Defending Our Human Rights
By Tim W. Shenk Coordinator, Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) “I love my country By which I mean I am indebted joyfully To all the people throughout its history […]
Where is one to go? The Effects of Zero-Tolerance Policy on Displacement
by Rebekah Jones “In our countries, we were already dead,” Central American migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. border told Mexican anthropology student Margarita Nuñez last year. “Here some of […]
On the border and in New York: Everybody’s got a right to live
Reflections prepared for a presentation at the forum titled, “Everybody’s Got a Right to Live,” hosted by the New York State Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral […]
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