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.
Welcome to our new site! It's official.
Welcome to the new Border Chronicle! And to our first weekly roundup on our new site. We won’t be doing a live video today, as we’re still working out some changes on the site. But they will be back soon! I also want to give a big thanks to the Outpost publisher’s collective for guiding us through the migration to the Ghost platform and to the folks there for being so helpful.
We’re very proud of our growth to a full-fledged media outlet. It’s been a long haul since we launched in September 2021, and it was just Todd and me for many years. Last year, with the help of grant funding, we were able to bring Pablo de la Rosa and Caroline Tracey on board, which has been amazing. We’ve also hired Brenda Machado for audience engagement and José Olivares as podcast editor. Pablo Morales has been our copy editor since day one.
Since we launched as the only independent outlet covering the entire U.S.-Mexico border region, our mission has been to provide you with quality on-the-ground reporting with context from across the U.S.-Mexico border region. We also provide arts and culture coverage that reflects the richness, resilience, and nuance of border life. Through our podcasts, online discussions and written work, we’ve strived to make The Border Chronicle a platform for shared ideas and solutions that break out of the “crisis” narrative and counter the disinformation that harms our communities and the people migrating through the borderlands.
We hope to continue to expand our coverage, so if you’ve been a free subscriber for a while and haven’t signed up for a paid or founding subscription, we would really appreciate your support now at this crucial moment of growth. We thank you very much for subscribing and supporting our work. We are almost entirely subscriber-funded, so we can’t do this without you!
And now on to the Semana that was…
Caroline Tracey
Melissa del Bosque
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.
