The Rio Grande Valley, or el Valle del Rio Bravo, is a collection of small town border communities in Texas. The region is well known to Texans as a citrus center for agriculture, home for the delicious red grapefruit. Lacking a major city center it is also known as...
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...
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...
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,...
