Grassroots Aid Workers Bring Help and Healing Across the Border

By Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project

For her part, Zavala is determined to do all she can to ensure that in this camp where she operates, everything possible is being done to assure these traumatized families a measure of dignity and a fair shot at a new life. She says, “In a time where asylum-seekers are being denied the fundamental right to humane and dignified treatment and access to the services they urgently need, we have pledged a strong commitment to fighting for them.”

Some Theses on Property, Immigration, Society and Culture

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

There’ll be lots of people ‘defending their culture’, lots of sacrifices by the many for the ‘good of the nation’ whose benefits will curiously accrue mainly to the few, lots more death and misery in the borderlands, lots more political polarization and lots more gated communities at various geographic levels that may become as oppressive to the people within them as without.

The Response podcast episode 3: The impact of Northern California fires on the undocumented community

By Robert Raymond, Tom Llewellyn, Shareable

We'll investigate how, in the face of ICE raids, labor violations, a housing crisis, and climate-fueled wildfires, the broader community is coming together to stand in solidarity with those who are being forced into the shadows.

One Little Question: How the Horrific Grows in Small Steps

By Dianne Monroe, Resilience.org

As I write this article, the Trump regime wants to add one simple question to the census – Are you a US Citizen. What harm can there be in answering this simple question – if you are living here legally? If you are a citizen?

Caravan of Grandmothers Heads to Mexico Border

By Lornet Turnbull, YES! magazine

Grannies Respond/Abuelas Responden is a movement of grandmothers and their allies who have been similarly spurred to action by the humanitarian crisis unfolding on the southern border. Over six days, beginning July 31, their caravan will journey more than 2,000 miles, onboarding other “grannies” along the way.

The Migrant Quilt: Re-Stitching the Fabric of Community

By Valarie Lee James, Open Democracy

Women on the border often have a different take on immigration issues: more of a ‘tend and befriend’ approach, a kind of common sense, needle-to-fabric mend. The responses of women to the Migrant Quilt exhibit define the soft heart of what it means to be human.

Migrant caravan: Foreshadowing the future and reflecting the present

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

The migrant caravan making its way through Mexico is not explicitly related to climate change or resource depletion. Yet, it is a small, but visible precursor of great migrations to come related to both problems if we stay on our current trajectory as a global society.

Will Brexit and Trump’s Wall Change the Face of Farm Labour?

By Jessica Anson, Sustainable Food Trust

The UK and US are headed for a crisis as crack-downs on immigration threaten to make it harder for agriculture to find the labour it requires. The problem, of course, is that most Westerners don’t want to do the hard, physical labour required in agriculture...

Why we have a wage inequality problem

By Gail Tverberg, ourfiniteworld.com

Wage inequality is really a sign of a deeper problem; basically it reflects an economic system that is not growing rapidly enough to satisfy everyone.

Multiculturalism and its dilemmas

By Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University

In times of economic stress, xenophobic themes grow more important in popular discourse and often lead to acute strife. Neighbors turn against neighbors. Countries become more protectionist. Legal freedom of movement across frontiers becomes more difficult. There is a considerable increase in violence of all kinds.

Remember Tewdrig

By Damien Perrotin, The View from Brittany

Mass migrations, or more specifically mass culture replacement, is one of the more troubling aspects of peak energy.

Eating Our Way Home: An Immigrant Family’s Journey For Sustainability

By Aparajita Sengupta, Countercurrents.org

A little over two years ago, we sold our house in Lexington, Kentucky to come back and settle in India. Me and my husband had spent seven and eleven years respectively in the United States and after years of confusion, vacillation, and endless planning, we finally decided to make the big move. Our compulsion to leave the United States was very strong, but our feelings were mixed. We had missed family and the surroundings familiar to us terribly the whole time we were in the United States, but so many years can hardly be just an interim—it is real time, and bound to be significant in certain ways.