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Mexico- migrant's stories ...

http://www.youtube.com/migranates

by anonymous on 08/03/10 | Read More

Mexico - Transborder Immigrant Tool

FOLLOW THE GPS, ÉSE:THE TRANSBORDER IMMIGRANT TOOL HELPS MEXICANS CROSS OVER SAFELY
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n11/htdocs/follow-the-gps-225.php
Vice magazine wrote a long article this month about Ricardo Dominguez and the b.a.n.g. lab. The article covers numerous Border Disturbance Art projects but focuses on the Transborder Immigrant Tool. We’ve been getting a lot of good feedback from this article, so thanks! It is really fantastic to see your film and we at bang.lab will work to see if we can bring to our community.
Best,
bang.lab
http://bang.calit2.net

by bang.lab on 04/12/09 | Read More

Mexico - Which Way Home

Which Way Home shows the personal side of migration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers trying to cross the border ...
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/which-way-home/4od#3009422

by anonymous on 18/11/09 | Read More

Mexican activist fights for the rights of migrants as town is split

by mexicoreporter.com on 15/11/09 | Read More

Mexico - The Frontier-Wall Between the United States and Mexico.

The “Anti-Immigration” Wall of the Tercera Nacion: Between Wealth and Poverty
Extract from a book “Des murs entre les hommes” (published at La Documentation française, 2007) translated by David Chuter.

The frontier between the United States and Mexico, 3,200 kilometres long, crosses the whole continent, from the Pacific Ocean on the West of California to the Gulf of Mexico, off Texas in the East. We have chosen to start our tour from San Diego, fourth largest city in California, and Tijuana, the fourth largest city in Mexico.
San Diego is a peaceful town by the sea, clean and colourful. Its extension, the town of San Isidro, is the main entry point to Tijuana, a sprawling city under constant development. Every…

by Alexandra Novosseloff & Frank Neisse on 12/10/09 | Read More

Mexico - divisions between the powerful and the poor

En México es año de elecciones. “La fiesta ha comenzado y la cosa esta que arde”. En voz de Victor Jara comparto el siguiente video que describe los contrastes en el valor de la vida del mexicano.

by anonymous on 16/06/09 | Read More

Mexico - a story of captivity

Ocurría el verano del año 2000 en Arizona y con mis binoculares visualizaba el escueto pelaje gris pardo que contrastaba con un rosa fosforescente que yacía en el cuello de una hembra de año y medio de la subespecie en peligro de extinción de lobo mexicano.  Nuestra misión era encontrarla, atraparla y llevarla de regreso al área donde meses antes había sido liberada. Sin embargo ella tenía otros planes, emigrar.

Con especial cariño inicie la búsqueda de este ejemplar y al ver su errático andar en aquel verano que la encontramos solo exclamé en mis adentros conteniéndome sin dejar externar toda expresión emotiva que me delatara ante mis compañeros: “¡Buena suerte amiga! Adelante con tu lucha, sigue con tu búsqueda,…

by Nahum Sanchez on 16/06/09 | Read More

Obama's speech at the Berlin Wall - but what about the one the US is building at the Mexico border?

by on 24/03/09 | Read More

Stories of migrants travelling through Mexico to reach the USA

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/mexicos-southern-border/cynthia-gorney-text
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http://current.com/items/76273562/il_treno_della_morte.htm
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http://www.latimes.com/extras/enrique/splash.htm
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http://www.popphoto.com/americanphotofeatures/2699/an-immigrants-journey.html
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Three wonderful reports published by the Arizona Daily Star
http://www.azstarnet.com/special/jesus
http://www.azstarnet.com/secureborder/
http://www.azstarnet.com/special/legalimmigration
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An excellent article by Gustavo Mohar:
http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=209
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A country profile focused on migration:
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Resources/mexico.cfm
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A report on the economic impacts of inmigration in Arizona:
http://portal.sre.gob.mx/tucson/pdf/immigrants_in_arizona.judith_gans.july2007.pdf
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One excellent think tank:
http://pewhispanic.org/
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And two good blogs:
http://borderbeat.net/section/index
http://www.bibdaily.com/
AND a great film
http://www.mediarights.org/film/no_one_de_nadie.php

by anonymous on 11/02/09 | Read More

Mexico/USA - what does the wall represent?

I’d like to ask that when you explore the look at the wall it isn’t simply about people fleeing poor mexico into the wonderful US of A there are plenty of mexicans, (i assume i’ve never been) that wouldn’t want to go to America, even if they could earn more. Also how about the economic reasons, ie NAFTA forcing mexicans across. Isn’t the wall just another neo-liberal policy of backwards socialism, public money into the private hands of corps like blackwater

by james 'tea maker' Messenger on 22/11/08 | Read More

Mexico / US border - an important site of cultural exchange, migration flows and inequalities

I’m greatly encouraged by the possibility of part of the film focusing on the site of Tijuana, as Gael discussed with Annie Lennox. Not only is it clearly an important site of cultural exchange, migration flows and inequalities but, as with many border areas, the creation of difference is on some levels only imaginary because the strict lines of cultural division that national borders insist upon, do not accurately embrace the realities of movements between and against them.
Importantly the factory culture of female workers in Cuidad Juarez, would also be an interesting inclusion perhaps, where the many unsolved “femicide” cases speak volumes on some of the extremely negative aspects of machista culture. Of course, I do not intend to…

by anonymous on 15/11/08 | Read More

San Diego - a silent voice can never be heard

Ok, so this really isn’t a contribution, but maybe you can pass this along to Gael…
Recently, I read an article about a poem or commentary by Gael, expressing the pain he felt about an incident that happened in Michoacan, Mexico on Independence Day night.  A group of people, who were celebrating at a gathering were injured by a grenade that was thrown into the public, by an unknown individual.  He expressed how he felt that this attack made it feel as if though it was an attack on his personal identity and hurt him greatly to see that this had happened.  A reporter who read the poem said that Gael had no reason why he should be affected by…

by Anya Meave on 09/10/08 | Read More

Madrid - Freedom is the personal search for a common good.

Unsustainable Distance

I want to write being me. I don’t want to say a word being “that person”. I can’t, I shouldn’t; the pain is greater than my conscience which pretends to hold everything in. Including creating a space for the mystery with the hope that this is real- which is why I end up writing this. I feel as if i cannot write in between the lines. I prefer for the interpretive tone to find shape and meaning to all this which at first was written to be read by me, not to fall in an endless dialectal game.

I hurts not being close. Being so far, now more than ever. Instead of feeling relieved for being away, I…

by Gael Garcia Bernal on 08/10/08 | Read More

Mexico - the struggle is not regional or national, but global

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Pensaba en el robo sistemático de tierras en el sur y recordé pasajes de mi vida en la sierra.
“De todos ustedes no se hace uno como Ladislao”
Amargamente hacía su reclamo don Gustavo a sus compañeros de ejido al ver impotente la conducta característica, hoy en día, del ejidatario. La que contrasta con la que recuerda de su tío, Ladislao Medellín, quien fuera uno de los jóvenes que pelearon aquellos años en la revolución.
Ese lamento es el mismo lamento amargo que corre por mi sangre a manera de reclamo para mis adentros, que me obliga a desear encontrarme desahuciado y tomar esto como excusa para patentar mi vida como algo útil dentro…

by Nahum Sanchez on 19/07/08 | Read More

Mexico - A Wall and a War

My form of resistance is a silent one.  One that is common when living in a bordertown. It is one of sadness and hope.  It is that of the border wall and a drug war.  Both are things that seem like they have no solution.
I’ve lived in Los Angeles, San Diego & Tijuana, MX.  Out of all three, my favorite place of all was Tijuana, MX.  Many view it as a party town, but its not.  It’s more than that.  It’s an explosion of culture. A world within a city. It is a fusion of new and old. It is truly a concrete jungle.  But its a beautiful one full of life and movement.  There aren’t many places where…

by Anya Meave on 17/06/08 | Read More

Mexico - The Chiapas media project

My story is a story of collective resistance, so it’s not just mine, it belongs to the organization I work for.  In Southern Mexico, in the highlands of Chiapas, in a tzotzil community, when a compañero greets you they say “How is your heart?” The English translation sounds terrible, something you hear in a doctor’s office but in Zapatista communities it encompasses the rhythm of communication the indigenous communities are fighting for.

My role is in this beautiful movement of words, I work in the distribution of their stories of resistance. The Chiapas Media Project/Promedios de Comunicacion Comunitaria. We are a bi-national project, our office in Chicago focuses on distribution and the office in Chiapas, Mexico focuses on production and…

by Aasia Mohammad Casteñeda on 05/06/08 | Read More