by Brian Erickson & Jennifer Johnson
on April 05, 2010
If you ascribe to the old saying that "actions speak louder than
words," then March 21st, 2010 may become a historic moment. On that
day, an estimated 200,000 plus families, students and concerned
individuals from Delaware to Oregon participated in the "March
for America" in Washington D.C. to remind Congress and
President Obama that we're tired of empty promises and want to see
action towards immigration reform - and we want to see it now!
by Brian Erickson
on December 18, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
has sought to assure us all that human rights are a priority for the
administration. Unfortunately, the policies in place to secure the
U.S.-Mexico border have hardly been humane. That’s why Thursday,
December 10th, Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) sponsored a showing
of The 800 Mile Wall in honor of the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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by Jennifer Johnson and Vanessa Kritzer
on April 01, 2010
Working to protect human rights in the heavily militarized mountain region of Guerrero, Mexico is never easy; and threats and harassment are not new for the Mexican human rights defenders who work for the Organization of the Me’phaa Indigenous People (OPIM) and the Tlachinollan Mountain Center for Human Rights. But we have been alarmed to see a rise in threats against them because of their outspoken advocacy, including their accompaniment of two indigenous women, Inés Fernández Ortega y Valentina Rosendo Cantú, who were raped and tortured by soldiers in 2002.
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by Brian Erickson
on December 09, 2009
Director of The 800 Mile Wall, John Carlos Frey, is asking all the right questions of our U.S.-Mexico border.
"Do we need to spend billions of dollars on fencing and technology?
Does it work? Should the thousands of migrant lives lost on U.S. soil
be recognized and taken into account? Should we do anything about the
deaths? Is there a solution?"
If you're wondering when the opportunity will arise to demand that our
legislators begin asking these questions, the time is now!
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by Jennifer Johnson and Brian Erickson
on March 08, 2010
As we mark International Women’s Day, we remember Esther Chávez Cano, a powerful champion for women’s rights who struggled to eradicate gender-based violence and whose efforts raised worldwide attention to the ever-growing toll of unresolved murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez.
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by Brian Erickson
on December 02, 2009
Between the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
and the Borderlands
RAVE photo exhibit in the Senate, the border wall has loomed large in
the minds of many this November.
As a final reflection for the month, Leslie Berestein of the San Diego
Union-Tribune has called attention to another function of the fence: a
place for artistic expression.
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