A comment from Stan
We note a powerful letter from our friend José Pérez in this morning’s Brownsville Herald on the irregularity of building permits in recent (recent meaning the last five years or so) construction and the consequent problems. We heartily recommend Mr. Pérez’s letter to your attention.
Mr. Pérez provides us with as concise [...]

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An announcement via Virginia Gause

SOUTH TEXAS PROTEST AGAINST THE BORDER WALL
What: A protest opposing the border wall at the University of Texas Pan American followed by a march on the Hidalgo County Commissioner’s Court
When: Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Where: Beginning at the University of Texas Pan American Student Union
Who: United Methodist [...]

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from Gene’s Notebook
sultry, hot morning, this one of the three longest weeks of the year ….
…and down by the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Sunday twilight at still-another anti-wall vigil, I felt like I was at a wake, funeral, burial …and the river, green bushes on the sides flowed on, chocolate-green …and the wall got closer and [...]

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From Gene’s Notebook
…in a local club, two women and eight men sit around a table, drinking a lot of beer, all college people, some with Greek fraternity letters on caps; they’re part of the academic world, or were very recently. Friends all.
Then, in come two scruffy men, and one woman; they draw stares from the [...]

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Your first right is the right to think and then to express your thoughts.

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Published in the Brownsville Herald April, 20, 2008
March 22, 2008
Dear Editor,
Am I really awake? Are we truly planning to erect a wall along the river of our lives, the Rio Grande, the Rio Bravo? Such an eyesore stolidly intersecting our wildlife refuges, campuses and yards would be a very testament to ignorance, unthinking [...]

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The New York Times is reporting more and more about the Valley. Here is analysis of the newly empowered Michael Chertoff’s actions towards building the infamous Wall. Do we have NYT agents secretly running amongst us? And where is Pink Floyd when you need them?

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Brownsville’s Sabal Palms Audubon Center and its potential disappearance behind the proposed security wall got some national attention today in the New York Times by way of Dan Barry’s travel column.

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Here we go into the transportation system. You commit yourself to a host of strangers from the security folks to the cab drivers and ticketing agents and pilots and flight attendants. And if you’re lucky and on your best behavior and none of the aforementioned folks are having what they call a bad day and [...]

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Texas Observer is running a very interesting story by Melissa del Bosque on how the border wall is skipping places such as River Bend Resort.
–stan

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