In this week's podcast, Melissa del Bosque and Geographer Dugan Meyer explain how the Border Chronicle's new project, Wall Watch, helps residents document and understand the massive construction project underway at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Countering negative narratives with an event that honors interconnectedness and subverts the border in Agua Prieta/Douglas, and a contested hotel--in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley--that is of great importance for Mexican American civil rights.
There is a reckoning with history happening at an old hotel with a horrific past and the RGV's first and only civil rights museum.
Border barriers on the river could be fatal during floods, say Laredo landowners, a reflection on desert narratives and the U.S.-Mexico border, and become a sustaining member of The Border Chronicle today, get some cool, new merch, and help us hold those in power accountable.
The Trump administration is rapidly deploying billions to private contractors to build border walls and floating buoy barriers on the Rio Grande. All of this is happening with little communication with border residents, and the waiving of numerous federal laws that protect us and the environment. In the case of this week's story by Michael Gonzalez, a reporter based in South Texas, the Trump administration is not even requiring studies to be done on the flooding impact that walls and buoys will have on communities on both sides of the Rio Grande, in direct violation of the international treaty with Mexico and endangering countless lives along the river. You can read more about this in Gonzalez's excellent piece published Thursday, which he reported from Laredo, Texas.
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This April and May, you can volunteer to document plants and wildlife on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Border BioBlitz a community science effort to record as many species as possible 15 kilometers north or south of the international border. Check out this press release from the San Diego Natural History Museum to learn more.
Countering negative narratives with an event that honors interconnectedness and subverts the border in Agua Prieta/Douglas, and a contested hotel--in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley--that is of great importance for Mexican American civil rights.
As DHS gaslights border communities, help document the reality on Wall Watch, our new community powered map for border wall construction, and a podcast from the resistance in Lochiel, Arizona, where protestors try to save the last ancient Cottonwood tree from bulldozers.
Bulldozing has started in the iconic Big Bend National Park, and protestors try to save the last of 200-year old cottonwood trees in Arizona as the border wall advances, plus we launch our community mapping project, Wall Watch, on Tuesday!
Border grassroots organizing is winning in July; Who pays the price for Brownsville's tech and industrial boom? And Tijuana Art Week and NAFTA's lasting influence on Baja's landscape. Plus more!
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.
