The Board of Directors for Women on the Border voted to support this humanitarian cause. The Mother’s Day in Gaza Quilt Project is a compassion and peace-based cultural arts education and fundraising initiative. The Mother’s Day in Gaza Quilt Project...
Women on the Border mourns the loss of documentary filmmaker and activist Lourdes Portillo, who passed away in late April, in San Francisco, California. In 2002, award winning filmmaker Lourdes Portillo released Señorita Extraviada, or Young Missing Woman,...
PRESS ADVISORY SPEAKING EVENT Thursday, May 9, 10:00 AM on Texas Capitol South Steps SEWING SEEDS: CALL FOR QUILTS & PERMANENT CEASEFIRE, MEASURING THE GREAT WALK WHO: TV, Radio & Print Reporters, Bloggers, & Features Editors Speakers: Gabriela Rose...
A large majority of the guns recovered after crimes are committed in Mexico are produced by gun manufacturers in the United States. In recent years, demand by the Mexican drug cartels has fueled high levels of north-to-south traffic in armaments, primarily...
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,...
