Solidarity/Education
SOLIDARITY
Project Puente will be hosting a series of Solidarity actions with the suffering people of Ciudad Juarez. Contact us for more information.
EDUCATION
Visit the links on this page to learn more about border issues.
- Check out this powerful new video, made by a Casa Puente community member about the border wall.
- Also check out Marie Triller’s website. She is an excellent photographer who spent some time with West, capturing the border. She has a wonderful photo gallery covering the US-Mexico border.
Current events:
- 7.1.10 Obama immigration reform speech
- 1.10.10 Pope urges Italy to respect migrants
- 6.18.09 Armed Radical “Minutemen” Kill Father and 9 year old Daughter in Anti Immigrant Hate
- 6.3.09 Volunteer Convicted of Littering for Putting Out Water in Desert for Migrants
- Interactive map: Understand the drug violence
- 3.23.09 NAFTA’s Promises Unfulfilled
- 04.8.09 Obama to Push Immigration Bill as One Priority
- 04.6.09 Obama Continues Bush’s Border Fence Policies
- 8.28.08 Fear Grips Immigrants After Hundreds are Detained in Mississippi
- 06.26.08 LA Judge Rejects Bid to Let Police Check Immigration Status
- 05.12.08 Hundreds of Workers Arrested in Iowa Raid
- 04.04.08 Environment Groups Protest Border Fence
- Land dispute in Lomas de Poleo
- Migrant deaths in desert rise (en espanol
Our Partners:
- Canary Institute
- New York State Labor and Religion Coalition
- Primate’s World Relief Development Fund, Canada
Border Issues:
- New Documentary Features El Paso/Juarez Mass at the Fence
- Patricia Vonne music video on the women of Juarez
- At The Drive In music video about the murders of women in Juarez
- Oxfam Fair Trade Campaign
- Justice For Immigrants
- Mesa de Mujeres- women’s coalition in Juarez
- Paso Del Sur- group organizing against destruction of Segundo Barrio in El Paso and Lomas del Poleo in Juarez
Some of the places we visit on Border Immersion Trips and other organizations doing great work in the El Paso/Juarez community:
- Annunciation House
- Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services
- Farmworkers’ Center
- Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy
- La Mujer Obrera
- Border Network for Human Rights
