Comments of WOB Board member, Donna J. Blevins, J.D., MPP I really don’t get the extreme, overwhelmingly negative reaction by so many in the white community to the simple phrase “Black Lives Matter.” When I see it, I think “yes, they do!” And I am...
Join us to hear home communities have been responding to immigrant issues duringn COVID-19 Posted by WOMEN ON THE BORDER on Thursday, April 30, 2020 Speakers for Public Chat on issues of the lawsuits against ICE for failing to abide by Covid-19 CDC Guidelines and from...
ONLINE PUBLIC CHAT — THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020 7:00 PM CST Board members in Texas and Illinois, plus immigrant activists in West Chicago invite listeners for a conversation about the impact of Covid-19 on migrants, detainees and the immigrant community, Thursday,...
REIMAGINING THE BORDER — VOICES AT THE BORDER Common Ground Voices/La Frontera creates community music projects in collaboration with refugee shelters at the Mexico-US border. Their recent project DOS CUERPOS is available on YouTube. WHAT IS COMMON GROUND...
JESS CHAPIN has a long history of academic research and activism around the struggles of women, immigrants and gender minorities on the U.S.-Mexico border and within in the U.S. Her doctoral work for a PhD in cultural anthropology addressed issues of gender and...
