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...
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,...
Attendees of this Spanish-English bilingual webinar heard from activists in the Comité Fronterizo de Obreras, including long time CFO coordinator Julia Quiñonez, as well as from Ben Davis of the United Steelworkers Union. Speakers focused on how COVID-19 has...
What does organizing at the border look like during the pandemic? On International Workers’ Day, May 1, 2021 at 12 noon CST, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera is hosting a Spanish-English bilingual webinar where speakers will address the impact of COVID-19 and the...
GEMA – GENERO Y EMPODERAMIENTO DE LA MUJER PARA LA ACCION. Women on the Border has long supported the empowerment of women who work in the maquiladoras. In 2013 gender empowerment workshops were produced in Piedras Negras involving two of Women on the Border’s...
In 2018 the U.S. Government introduced the Zero Tolerance Policy and told border patrol officials to separate children and even babies from legal asylum seeker parents. RAICES has produced a documentary, The Fight, in which they follow the civil rights lawyers who...
