Jun 26, 2023 | Border Wall, Borderlands
On Sunday, the Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center hosted a benefit film screening at the Loft Cinema in Tucson. The screening included three films: “A Wall Runs Through It,” “Ducey’s Boondoggle” and “Prayer Run: Save Oak Flat.” The first two films were sharply...
Jun 26, 2023 | Border Wall, Borderlands, Shipping Containers
Tony Heath and Kate Scott, founders of The Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center, are artists as much as they are activists. Their goal is to educate people about the Birdland Ranch Wildlife Conservation Area and surrounding areas, and support similarly minded creators....
May 4, 2023 | Border Wall, Borderlands, Commentary
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands were once a place of thriving Indigenous lands with diverse populations of migrating plants and animals. Through shifting colonial claims to territory, Mexico switched from Spanish acquisition in the 16th century, and by the mid-19th...
May 4, 2023 | Border Wall, Borderlands, Commentary
By Dinah Bear In 2005, Congress passed the REAL ID Act that authorized the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to “waive all legal requirements…necessary to ensure expeditious construction” of barriers and roads at the U.S.-Mexico border.[1] No...
Apr 10, 2023 | Border Wall, News Article, Shipping Containers
By Melissa del Bosque Published in The Border Chronicle April 4, 2023 On Sunday afternoon, more than 20 people gathered at the Coronado National Forest to celebrate the removal of former Governor Doug Ducey’s shipping container wall, and re-opening of the stretch of...
Mar 9, 2023 | Border Wall
A classic novel and a border wall that is no more by John Washington The common English usage of the word pogrom (from Russian for devastation, or storm) began in the 1880s. Hundreds of anti-Jewish riots in the Russian empire, especially in modern day Ukraine and...
