The impact of Trump’s rapid-fire signing of executive orders is overwhelming. The US-Mexico border emerges as a site of civilization-ending crisis one day, then disappears altogether on the next, as our attention boomerangs from Ukraine to the Post Office to the...
The Border Chronicle, an email newsletter on Substack, is an excellent source of up-to-date news and analysis about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It is produced by long-time border journalists Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller, who are currently working out of Tucson,...
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...
