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...
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...
