#WorldWithoutWalls: A Global Demand From Palestine to Mexico and Beyond
A coalition of Palestinian and Mexican advocacy groups launched the #WorldWithoutWalls Global Day of Action on Thursday, the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Anne Winkler-Morey | U.S. and Latin America Beyond the Border Wall
The roots and strength of local grassroots organizations
Anne Winkler-Morey | U.S. and Latin America Beyond the Border Wall
The roots and strength of local grassroots organizations
U.N. Security Council Takes ‘Historic’ Stand on Killings of Journalists
When war breaks out, most non-combatants run the other way. But a handful of courageous reporters see it as their duty to tell the world what’s happening on the ground. And many pay a high price. By Kitty Stapp OSC  NationofChange.org  May 30, 2015 Since 1992, 1,129 journalists have been killed on the job, 38 percent of More
Disappeared Students in Mexico: Justice for Ayotzinapa, Caravana43
On March 30th Patty Guerrero went to Macalester College for a forum with the parents of the 43 missing students from Mexico, and then went to the Mexican Consulate on East  7th Street in St. Paul for the protest/demonstration.  She says:  "Very sad, and no one wants to fess up to what really happened, and the Mexican More
Beyond the Border: ‘This is our home’
With migrants streaming through south Texas, landowners are caught between protecting their property and saving lives. Part two of Beyond the Border, a four-part series from a partnership between The Texas Observer and the Guardian. Watch: The ranchers of Brooks County Click title to watch video. By Melissa del Bosque, The Texas Observer, and the Guardian More
Bethania Palma Markus: Borderland Deaths of Migrants Quietly Reach Crisis Numbers
While most attention on immigration has been directed recently at the human drama unfolding around a surge of children fleeing from Central American countries, the immigrant death toll on the US-Mexico border has quietly exploded, even as undocumented migration overall has plummeted. By Bethania Palma Markus, Truthout.org | Report  Sunday, 27 July 2014   Undocumented More
Todd Miller: They Are Watching You The National Security State and the U.S.-Mexican BorderÂ
 Americans may increasingly wonder whether NSA agents are scouring their meta-data, reading their personal emails, and the like. In the borderlands no imagination is necessary. The surveillance apparatus is in your face. The high-powered cameras are pointed at you; the drones are above you; you’re stopped regularly at checkpoints and interrogated. By Todd Miller  April 22, 2014 More
Chiapas: Peace Caravan
Chiapas: Caravan to the South Day 3  SIPAZ Drawings for peace (@SIPAZ) The third day of the journey of the Carvan for Peace in Chaipas began with a visit by a commission of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity to the Zapatista caracol of Oventic.  A member of the Good-Government Council (JBG) gave More