by Elvia Arriola | Jul 30, 2014 | Further Study, Migrants and Human Rights
The Department of Homeland Security, through its Border Security division daily apprehends and subsequently detains through the division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thousands of persons believed to be present in the U.S.A. without proper travel or...
by Elvia Arriola | Apr 23, 2014 | Advocacy and Activism, Delegations, Maquiladoras, NAFTA, Our History, Who We Are, Women and Globalization
Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera Welcome to the new and brighter world of solidarity Over the long-term, ATCF creates and nurtures spaces in which people cross boundaries of language, nationality, history, class and culture to meet each other. People who have not had...
by Elvia Arriola | Jan 1, 2014 | Further Study, NAFTA
FARMERS, NAFTA AND GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL CORPORATE POWER A visit to the Mexican border to view the conditions for workers in the maquiladoras often provides surprises about who those people we meet are and where they came from. So many of the workers are doing factory...
by Elvia Arriola | Apr 10, 2013 | Advocacy and Activism, NAFTA
This Poem is a Diaper This poem is the forearms on the table of a friend listening to MutaBaruka, Archibald, Judith and Diane. This poem is a gift bag stuck together by someone at the assembly line table. This poem could care less what gift is stuffed in this...
by Elvia Arriola | Apr 8, 2013 | Advocacy and Activism
For the everyday Consumer It’s not my story to tell but it must be told must be heard and if it was really heard, don’t you know, the entire empire would crumble, brought to its knees repenting your life would turn itself inside out. it’s not my...
