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Art Against the Wall
No Border Wall | September 28th 2008 by noborderwall
By Scott Nicol International borders are abstract concepts, little more than lines on maps that we imagine upon the earth. Existing outside of the real world of rivers, mountains, or deserts, political boundaries have no bearing on ecosystems. Epheme read more
Family Values Sunday… 28-September-2008
The Mex Files | September 28th 2008
Family visits In San Diego, families separated by the border still get together for Sunday picnics, but not for long. HTMLLeslie Berestein in the 24-September-2008 San Diego Union: This binational social scene, as it exists now, is unique along the read more
More wasteful spending - $400 million reallocated to construct bo…
Mexico Trucker Online | September 23rd 2008 by Mexico Trucker
Congress approved a shift of $400 million from technology accounts to construction of the U.S. border fence despite a Customs and Border Protection admission that it cannot be completed by year’s end, officials said Monday. The House Appropriat read more
Corporate responsibility
The Mex Files | September 21st 2008
Estimated cost of the border fence: 4 to 8 BILLION Dollars Estimated cost over-runs: 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS per MILE. Having the largest cement company in the country tell Homeland Sercurity to screw itself: Priceless! Cemex, the largest concrete co read more
Chertoff Pays the Price of the Border Wall in Human Lives
No Border Wall | September 16th 2008 by noborderwall
In 2007 a U.S. district court ordered a halt to construction of the border wall through the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff responded to the ruling, “I have to say to myself, ‘Yes, I don read more
Texas Politicians Ignoring the Danger that the Border Wall Poses…
No Border Wall | September 12th 2008 by noborderwall
An Open Letter to Texas Politicians:During the past year, many of us have submitted letters to our elected representatives expressing our concerns regarding the manner in which the Border Wall or Fence is being constructed in the Lower Rio Grande Val read more
Fly on the Wall
No Border Wall | September 9th 2008 by noborderwall
By Adrienne EvansTERLINGUA, September 4 - I arrived late for the August 24-28, 2008 Peace and Unity March against the border wall. I got there on Sunday, the last day.The march that had started on Wednesday and gone 57 miles along the future route of read more
Kiva Update Aftermath: The $10 Million Dollar Wave
Paul E. Zimmerman.com | September 6th 2008 by Paul E. Zimmerman
Kiva.org sends out a regular newsletter to members, which I found in my inbox this morning. In it they discussed the recent changes to the loan repayment process that I described in my previous post. The instant effect of the changes: $10 million do read more
Rapoport Center Alleges that the Border Wall Violates Human Right…
No Border Wall | September 1st 2008 by noborderwall
A multi-disciplinary working group of faculty and students affiliated with the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at The University of Texas at Austin alleges that human rights are being violated by the United States through construction of read more
DAM…and double DAMN! That dam, damn border fence
The Mex Files | August 28th 2008
Guess where photo was taken… The middle of the Arizona desert! Yup, that’s right… the brilliant minds who poo-pooed environmental restrictions along the border seem to have forgotten that fences stop not people … but water. read more
No Border Wall Endorses the People’s March to Stop the Wall
No Border Wall | August 28th 2008 by noborderwall
The No Border Wall Coalition strongly endorses the Border People’s March to Stop the Wall, currently underway on the Texas – Mexico border. Marchers will follow the route of the 57-mile segment of border wall that is being built from Ft. Hancock read more
Rememberances of things past
The Mex Files | August 26th 2008
Joseph Nevins, in New American Media on the loss of simple decency in our dialogue about the border. [I]n Imperial Beach, Calif. on Aug. 18, 1971 to inaugurate a state park…the First Lady promised to cross the boundary to shake hands with some read more
S&R endorses idea of a border fence
Scholars and Rogues | August 25th 2008 by Scholars and Rogues
So, the Minutemen are in town agitating about securing our borders. We’ve been thinking about the idea of a border fence for quite awhile and up until recently we were adamantly opposed. For one thing, it seemed unlikely to work, and for anoth read more
“Between us and the gringos… the desert!” (Porfirio Diaz)
The Mex Files | August 22nd 2008
These guys are probably a little more ambitious and energetic than most “Viagra Vigilantes” I’ve met, but to quote Hillary Clinton, “There are two ways to secure our borders: a smart way and a dumb way.” The geezers ar read more
DHS Tracking Border Crossing Of US Citizens
EckerNet.Com | August 21st 2008
Apparently the DHS, in one of their efforts to track potential terrorists, have started to track the border crossing habits of US citizens. The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travele read more
And now, the REST OF THE STORY
The Mex Files | August 21st 2008
Greg Gross (San Diego Union) missed one small detail in this story: SAN DIEGO – Three days ago, it was a drug-smuggling attempt in the backcountry using a sedan disguised as a utility company car. This time, it was a pickup in San Ysidro, made to read more
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Damaged by Border Wall Flood…
No Border Wall | August 18th 2008 by noborderwall
New Park Service Report Details Environmental, Infrastructure Damage Caused by Predictable Border Wall Flood Problems.The following press release comes from the Center for Biological Diversity, regarding the impact of the border wall on flooding in O read more
Dude, where’s my border?
The Mex Files | August 14th 2008
Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, via South Texas Chisme . GRANJENO — Perhaps it was the shade-giving mesquite and the storied ebony tree that caused border-fence surveyors to apparently miss the Anzaldua family and their two neighbors read more
No reason to be in your own country?
The Mex Files | August 13th 2008
A U.S. Border Patrol agent in San Ysidrio, California apparently shot a Mexican national today, during a rock-throwing incident. The shooting victim probably was throwing rocks, but whether he deserved to be shot is for others to work out. This h read more
Kiva.org: News from the Field Coming Soon
Paul E. Zimmerman.com | August 13th 2008 by Paul E. Zimmerman
I got this email through Kiva.org yesterday. This is something I have been hoping to see for a long time - feed back from the people I am making microloans to. Here's the letter:Dear Lender,Thank you for supporting an entrepreneur in Mexico.I'm exci read more
Don’t drink the water, and don’t eat the food?
The Mex Files | August 12th 2008
Maybe the Aztecs shouldn’t have given up cannibalism. Today’s border absurdity from the Houston Chronicle: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans today to announce an unusual marketing pitch to the U.S. government: Rent us sp read more
Counting Sheep
Across the border | August 11th 2008
This statue of a bighorn sheep stands at the fork of a road in the east side of Tijuana where you either veer south to Rosarito Beach or continue on to Tecate. He looks a little lonely, and maybe that’s because he’s thinking of his love n read more
Border Wall Causes Flood in Nogales, Sonora
No Border Wall | August 4th 2008 by noborderwall
By Sean SullivanOn July 12, monsoons washed through the Nogales, Sonora area and caused major flooding on the Mexican side of the border. In some places five feet of water was pooled up along the border wall and there were reports of cars floating aw read more
Kiva.org: Pedro Morales Díaz
Paul E. Zimmerman.com | August 4th 2008 by Paul E. Zimmerman
It's a new month, so as per my self-imposed schedule, I've gone looking for another Mexican entrepreneur to loan money to through Kiva.org. A loan I made eleven months ago to a trio of women led by Maria Del Rosario Zavala Cruz was paid back this las read more
Chuck Baldwin on The Fence - video
U.S. CONSTITUTIONALIST | August 3rd 2008 by Ronald Goldwater
Q: Who is Chuck Baldwin?A: I bet you a year's salary that the media will remain silent as a clam asleep on Chuck Baldwin. Why? They're getting paid to keep quiet.See the Chuck Baldwin video and reader comments on Border Security and more issues.from read more
Hurricanes and Border Walls Don’t Mix
No Border Wall | July 29th 2008 by noborderwall
The Texas Border Coalition, which describes itself as a collective voice of border mayors, county judges, and economic development commissions along Texas' border with Mexico, released the following statement regarding the border wall in South Texas: read more
ATAW Exclusive - An Open Letter to the Republican National Commit…
American Truckers at War | July 23rd 2008 by R E Taylor
The following is a letter writting to the RNC by Betsy Reed of Texas. Betsy is a conservative Christian and wife of Paul - who served in Iraq with Mark delivering mail to the troops as part of The Iron Pony Express. Betsy has spoken for many of us an read more
Kiva.org: Santos Morales Ramos
Paul E. Zimmerman.com | July 15th 2008 by Paul E. Zimmerman
So far this month it has been slow on Kiva.org for new loan applications from Mexican entrepreneurs (that, or I'm not around often enough to catch them before they're funded). I finally found a new one to lend to, however, and this gentleman's applic read more
CALL TO ACTION BY THE TOHONO O'ODHAM INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AGAINST TH…
No Border Wall | July 10th 2008 by noborderwall
The Traditional Tohono O'odham Indigenous People Demand a Halt to the Construction of the US-Mexico Border Wall and the Destruction of Indigenous Nations.The following press release was issued by the O'odham Solidarity Project:The Tohono O'odham Nati read more
WAIVED ON THE BORDER: THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT OF 1946
No Border Wall | July 8th 2008 by noborderwall
By Nat StoneWary of New Deal-era government expansion, and after costly brushes with fascism under Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, in 1946 Congress passed the Administrative Procedure Act to protect United States citizens from abuses by federal agen read more
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