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Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center Seeks Communications Coordinator Intern, Fall 2023/Winter 2024
Position Description: The internship is sponsored by the Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center (MAWC). MAWC was an instrumental organizational facilitator for the Border Wall Resistance Coalition composed of Sierra Club Borderlands, Center for Biological Diversity,...
Press Release – Neglect and Abuse at the Hands of the Border Patrol Endangers Migrants During Historic Heatwave
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: PRESS RELEASE – July 24, 2023 Media Contact: Kate Scott Email: borderwallresistance@gmail.com Who: Border Wall Resistance What: Neglect and Abuse at the Hands of the Border Patrol Endangers Migrants During Historic Heatwave In response to the...
Herald Review: Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center premiers films on border shipping containers
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...
Tucson Weekly: The Loft screens ‘Three Films for Our Borderlands’
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....
AZ Central: Along the wall at the biodiverse US-Mexico border, study saw decrease in some animal populations
In one of the most ecologically diverse corridors in North America, where both black bears and jaguars coexist, an environmental nonprofit is studying wildlife movement in southern Arizona’s borderlands and has found a decrease in certain mammal species, prompting...
AZ Daily Star: Container wall leaves runaway costs behind
Just a few years ago, Arizona's Department of Emergency and Military Affairs (DEMA) was counted among the state's smaller agencies, known for preparing Arizonans for summer monsoons. That changed in 2021 when then-Gov. Doug Ducey declared a state of emergency over...
Three Films for Our Borderlands – Sunday, June 4, 2023 at the Loft Cinema, Tucson
On Sunday, June 4, 2023, at 4:00 PM three borderlands films will be showing at the Loft Cinema in Tucson, AZ: A Wall Runs Through It Ducey's Boondoggle Prayer Run The Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center Fundraiser offers Three Films for our Borderlands: Ducey’s...
History of the U.S. – Mexico Borderlands
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...
Losing the Rule of Law in America
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...
El Sueno – audio poem
Jaguar’s Story
Jaguar By J. Brun He sat upon a gneiss rock throne. Appropriate, as his kind was deemed royalty by the Americas' ancestors. The Aztecs believed the distinct rosettes on his fur symbolized the celestial bodies of the night sky that he ushered through the evening hours....
Ducey’s Debacle: The Wall of Shipping Containers Is Gone, but Questions Remain
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...
Arizona Vampire Patrol
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...
We Have Made History – Let’s Celebrate!
Spring is here and new beginnings awaken in the Earth. We have accomplished what no one thought possible. Our convictions, passion and determination defended the Coronado National Forest from catastrophic damage.
How Southern Arizona environmentalists and advocates blocked a border wall of shipping containers
By John Washington It was past 11 p.m., below freezing, and the government-contracted excavators coughed into life. The protesters had been sitting down, standing in the way, blocking border wall construction in Coronado National Forest for weeks starting in November....
Political Haymaking at Expense of the Vulnerable Continues with Kevin McCarthy Visit
The Border Wall Resistance urges House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Representative Juan Ciscomani to focus on community development, environmental protection and immigration reform in our southern border communities. The status quo of militarization, baseless fear-mongering and border wall construction reflects the worst impulses of a minority.
There have been moments in my lifetime when the whole world seems insane
There have been moments in my lifetime when the whole world seems insane. When I saw what was happening at the border, I was stunned. Massive trucks hauling containers driving so fast we were covered in their dust when we got out of our vehicles. Blaring air horns at...
Trash Taken Out! Ducey’s Container Wall
The total cost of Ducey’s border wall boondoggle will exceed $200 million in taxpayer dollars. A huge swath of the Coronado National Forest was dug up and destroyed in one of the most beautiful places in Southeastern Arizona.
Forest Service Denies Access on January 13,2023 to Border Wall Resistance Volunteers
The only access at present for media and photojournalists is a small, police-taped, 5ftx5ft “pen” at the staging area only and with zero visibility of the container removal work. Now no one knows what is happening to our land, water and wildlife. AshBritt continues its container wall de-construction with zero oversight.
Access Granted to Border Wall Resistance to Monitor the Container Wall Removal
Members of the Border Wall Resistance have been granted access after conversations with The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Vista Ranger District, Coronado National Forest. The assignees will monitor and document the State of Arizona’s removal of unauthorized shipping containers, miscellaneous supportive equipment, and project-related materials from the Sierra Vista Ranger District, Coronado National Forest.
