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The Guardian
December 3, 2019
Trump deploys 'surge' of park rangers to patrol Mexican border
Diverting rangers is a way to direct federal resources to the border without the need for congressional approvalHelp us cover the critical issues of 2020.
The Guardian
November 15, 2019
‘This touched everyone’: Walmart store reopens months after mass shooting
Three months after one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history, the Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, where 22 were killed in an August rampage reopened on Thursday amid tears and smiles from customers and staff as...
Palestine Chronicle
October 7, 2019
Maximum Land with Minimum Palestinians: The Annexation of Area C
Early this month Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a report on Israel’s policy in Area C and its implications for the population of the West Bank.
The Guardian
September 13, 2019
National tragedy': Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve
In the face of protests by environmental groups, the wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the monument. It is part of the 175 miles of barrier expansion along the US-Mexico border being funded by the controversial...
Vice
September 9, 2019
Why Violence Persists in New Mexico's Indigenous Border Towns
This article appears in VICE Magazine's Borders Issue. The edition is a global exploration of both physical and invisible borders and examines who is affected by these lines and why we've imbued them with so much power.
Vice
August 12, 2019
Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster, Is Still Poisoning Navajo Lands 40 Years Later
Early in the summer of 1979, Larry King, an underground surveyor at the United Nuclear Corporation's Church Rock Uranium mine in New Mexico, began noticing something unusual when looking at the south side of the tailings dam.
New Mexico Magazine
June 13, 2019
Madrid Keeps It Weird
On a warm day in 1988, Riana Peaker-Newman, then 16, and her father, Waylan Peaker, drove the 20 miles south from Santa Fe to Madrid, a once booming coal town nestled in the foothills of the Ortiz Mountains.
New Mexico Magazine
June 13, 2019
Madrid, New Mexico, Now Has a Booming Art Scene
Above: Cowgirl Red in Madrid. On a warm day in 1988, Riana Peaker-Newman, then 16, and her father, Waylan Peaker, drove the 20 miles south from Santa Fe to Madrid, a once booming coal town nestled in the foothills of...