humanitarian aid + solidarity in the Sonoran borderlands | against militarization and for the free movement of people.
Tucson, AZ
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As we move into the hottest and deadliest months on the US-Mexico border, No More Deaths is releasing a comprehensive database and map of recovered migrant remains for the entire southern land border.
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Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias was found unresponsive in his cell at the GEO Group-run Rio Grande Processing Center in Laredo on Saturday. He’s the seventh person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year and the second in Laredo alone. Andrade-Covarrubias was legally in the United States on a green card.
His daughter says the family learned of his death from the county medical examiner rather than federal officials. She said her father, who had heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure, was denied his medications and ignored by medical staff when he complained of chest tightness and trouble breathing. The family has opened a GoFundMe for burial and funeral costs.
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For a quarter-century, a border tribe has staved off plans for a wall on their land by allowing DHS to use it as a testing ground for border security.
But the Trump administration has cast off any pretense of cooperation with the Nation.
propublica.org/article/tohon…
New: For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their community. propub.li/4yLoocW
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In July, I took a ride through the Arizona desert with Verlon Jose, chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a sprawling reservation on the U.S.-Mexico border that may soon be changed forever.
It was the beginning of an investigation that ProPublica is publishing today.
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New: For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their community. propub.li/4yLoocW
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settler colonial violence under the shadows of Elbit integrated fixed surveillance towers. One part of the Palestine-Mexico border
🚨 Border wall contractors plan to remove thousands of sacred saguaros (ha:ṣañ) on sovereign O'odham land starting Monday — Indigenous People's Day.
Tadai Me:i Camp calls supporters to join in prayer and protest on the Tohono O’odham Nation.
The Tohono O'odham Nation has filed an emergency injunction to stop federal contractors from removing thousands of saguaros from their land, with removal set to begin on Indigenous Peoples' Day. kvoa.com/news/arizona/tohono…
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Check out the full episode with Juan of Casa Carmelita talking about resisting the border wall at thefinalstrawradio.mayfirst.…
and donate to support those arrested during Oct 5th Camp O:Shad raids in #Lochiel defending #grandmothertrees at:
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Support the land defenders who were violently arrested today by Border Patrol by donating at the link below
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BREAKING: For Trump's wall, Border Patrol cut down the sacred Grandmother Tree, a more than 200-year-old Cottonwood on private property + Indigenous territory.
The tree sitter and many others have been arrested, according to activists @ Tierra Libre anti-border wall camp in AZ
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I wrote about the raid here [link in bio]. Please donate to the legal fund if you can.
The Forest Service closed roads near the border wall in an attempt to stop public oversight on Border wall construction and add another layer of policing against aid workers and environmentalists. They have closed these roads in the name of "public safety".azcentral.com/story/news/env…
“Colonial borders, barricades and police violence will not shake our obligation to these sacred places. We’ll continue to take care of this land. And the land will take care of us.” - Hon'mana Seukteoma, Tohono O’odham Land Defender
The NPS should have been protecting the land and people, not the border wall construction that nearly emptied the spring. Today, USFS should consider who they are protecting, in the name of "public safety". Shame on @forestservice