Fuerza Unida was founded in 1990, following an overnight shutdown of the Levi Strauss jeans factory in San Antonio leaving hundreds of workers without jobs and unable to meet the daily needs of food and housing. The mostly immigrant women working at the three Levi...
Renowned photojournalist David Bacon is known for using photography to humanize the realities of life on the U.S.-Mexican border. His work beautifully highlights the tragedies most people don’t see behind the persistent rhetoric that America needs bigger,...
On Labor Day weekend 2022, organizers for labor, immigrant and gender justice gathered at the Friends Meeting House of Austin for an event produced by Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera. The well attended workshop event was titled Border...
What is the status of gender justice at the border today? You are invited to come and learn about what working women are doing for gender justice in the maquiladoras along the Texas-Mexico border. Our friends at Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (ATCF) have organized a...
The detention center in Carrizo Springs, TX reopened in February of 2021 to hold unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexico border and surrendering themselves to immigration authorities. Officially designated a “temporary overflow facility,” it continues to hold...
Austin immigration attorney Virginia Raymond reflects on her work representing asylum seekers during the Trump years and shares her hopes and fears about what the next four years will bring. On the morning of November 9, 2016, I woke up saddened, ill, and angry, but...
