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12/4/20
Day 10 of 16 Days of Action Against Gender-Based Violence Against Women The Official 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign
#16days #OrangeTheWorld #generationalequality #RatifyILO190
Dr. Yolanda Layva, an acclaimed associate professor at the University of Texas El Paso, is a Chicana historian and writer who was raised on the Texas border. She listens compassionately to and documents the history of people on both sides of the border. She also stood witness outside the gates of Tornillo and gave voice to the children imprisoned there through their art at the exhibit, Uncaged Art, at UTEP (https://tinyurl.com/y55sb2cpl). Today she shares some of her impressions, observations and experiences.
12/3/20
Day 9 of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Against Women The Official 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign
#16days #orangetheworld #generationequality #ratifyILO190
Jenny Sevilla with Austin Border Relief grew up on the border and regularly travels back to volunteer. She shares some of her experiences working with asylum seeking women.
12/2/20
Day 8 of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence The Official 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign
#16daysofactivism2020 #OrangeTheWorld #RatifyILO
Before MPP, in my volunteer work at an immigrant shelter in El Paso, I welcomed women after their release from the hieleras, described in the article below.
12/1/20
Day 7 of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence The Official 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign
What is the human cost associated with the produce in your grocery cart?
The #MeToo movement gained traction in 2006 and we saw many high profile examples of sexual abuse and sexual harassment in the workplace. One group of women largely missing and not represented in this movement is farm workers. Women make up 28% of the agricultural workforce.
11/30/20
The battle lines are going to shift. But the battle is far from over.
As long as borders are used to defend the unjust and unequal distribution of the world’s resources, we will find those borders and highlight the injustice we see. As we have learned, the border is everywhere. Sidelined as many of us have been by our vulnerability to the disease that is ravaging the land, we can still choose to see.
11/30/20
DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 23 November – please share for transparency
Ø ICE AIR TAKES THANKSGIVING OFF – ALMOST: 1 DEPORTATION TO GUADELAJARA ON THANKSGIVING.
Ø 19 DEPORTATION FLIGHTS. 4-5 FEWER BECAUSE THERE WERE NO FLIGHTS TO HONDURAS STILL REELING FROM HURRICANE “Eta” AND “Iota.”
Ø 6 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Ø 81 TOTAL FLIGHTS ABOUT AVERAGE ON A DAILY BASIS
11/28/20
Day 4 of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Against Women
#16days #orangetheworld #generationequality #ratifyILO190
Longtime witness, Maryellen Dunn, reminds us that "We Are All Interconnected" as she relates her experiences along the Texas-Mexico border with asylum seeking women forced to await their "day in court" in very dangerous border cities and a woman who has dedicated her time and talents to providing shelter and compassion. She recalls the woman that implored, "Please don't forget us."
11/26/20
Witness: Thanksgiving
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I like to think of it as a harvest feast. Because thinking about Europeans arriving on the shores of a continent settled millennia earlier by earlier migrants—well, that flavors the food with the spice of conquest, subjugation, and genocide. Not an appealing recipe for turkey, or anything else.
11/26/20
Day 2 of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence:
"Availability of data on violence against women and girls has increased significantly in recent years, and data on the prevalence of intimate partner violence is now available for at least 106 countries." Learn more below and take action with "10 ways you can help end violence against women, even during a pandemic."
11/22/20
DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 16 November – please share for transparency
FINALLY, AT LEAST 2 BACK TO BACK HURRICANES SLOW ICE AIR (photo is Deportation Destination Airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras)
Ø 17 DEPORTATION FLIGHTS. 4-5 FEWER BECAUSE THERE WERE NO FLIGHTS TO HONDURAS AND 1-2 FEWER BECAUSE ONLY 1 TO EL SALVADOR BECAUSE OF HURRICANE “Eta” AND “Iota.”
Ø 5 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Ø 76 TOTAL FLIGHTS – FEWEST WEEKLY SINCE WEEK OF 31 MAY
11/14/20
DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 9 November – please share for transparency
HURRICANE AND HATE COLLIDE
Ø 25 DEPORTATION FLIGHTS IN SPITE OF 4-5 FEWER BECAUSE THERE WERE NO FLIGHTS TO HONDURAS AS IT WAS DEVASTATED BY HURRICANE “Eta” AND “Iota” MAY BE ON THE WAY.
Ø 9 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. 3 IN AFRICA: CAMEROON, DR CONGO AND ANGOLA
Ø 99 TOTAL FLIGHTS
Image: North Texas Dream Team
11/11/20
Time ticks on, making me ache with awareness of time’s limit for me. And ache with the larceny against us, the theft of our time and our lives, as we, starved for oxygen, await the end we are being denied. The end of this frozen grimace of an era, an era that hammered home the lesson that we never knew, that we thought we knew, but that we never knew: that tragedy is as human as hope, and that each breath delivers both.
Photo: @Allan Mestel
11/9/20
DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 2 November – please share for transparency
Ø 21 DEPORTATION FLIGHTS IN SPITE OF 4-5 FEWER BECAUSE THERE WERE NO FLIGHTS TO HONDURAS AS IT WAS DEVASTATED BY “ETA” STORM AND FLOODING (see picture)
Ø 7 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Ø 89 TOTAL FLIGHTS – ALMOST ½ DOMESTIC SHUFFLE FLIGHTS MOVING PEOPLE AROUND AS 3RD COVID WAVE RAGES
