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Juárez: Just One Word
Juárez. Just one word – disdained by the world, restricted by the fear that shackles her. A terror. Abandoned, scorned, forgotten. Juárez. Just one word – my heart leaps. Excitement fills the air. Anticipation. My city, my home. LOVE. Beauty. Life. Friends. Hope and anticipation of what is to come. I recently had a conversation [...]
October 1st, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
The Most Important People
The comforting words of my faith that I repeat so easily must surely ring hollow to people struggling to find daily food and watching their children die. Phil Smith, The Poor will be Glad If some 30,000 people have been murdered in Mexico in the past 4 years, who do you think is really taking [...]
May 11th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
March 22nd, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
This is Juarez: Raising the Stakes
Photo by Dallas Palmer Living on the border can cripple a person’s emotional range. I grow more numb with each passing day. Charles Bowden, High Country News The choice that we made to move to the desert cost Misty and me dearly. This has been a grueling battle on almost every level, but the longevity [...]
January 22nd, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Borderland Moments
Photo by Bruce Berman of Border Blog “We don’t play at the cantinas anymore because it is too dangerous. We do two funerals a day instead,” said musician Jose del Villar at the San Rafael cemetery after serenading a grieving widow, a black accordion strapped to his chest. But residents have little hope. The only thing that [...]
January 10th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Width of a Fence
Photo by Bruce Berman of Border Blog My spirit craves relief. The desert cries out for liberation. This afternoon is dragging on and the pain in my neck has moved closer to my brain, tender lightning storms brilliant in my skull. I just read about some more people being shot up and down. Another drug rehab place. 18 [...]
October 22nd, 2009 by mmlindsey
War on Drugs: Failing humanity.
Our border community is now painfully divided. It is a microcosm of our hemisphere, our world embroiled in a war on drugs. The violence is a wake-up call, not only for Mexico, but also for the U.S. Billie Greenwood – Allvoices.com Back in April we posted a short video from The Newspaper Tree about the “War [...]
May 22nd, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Amor por Juarez
If Jesus preached in New York City what he preached in Galilee, we’d lay him in his grave again. Woody Guthrie Living in a border town as volatile and spotlighted as the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez border will certainly challenge one’s worldview. It has flipped mine upside down. For example, try explaining the $7 million a [...]
January 9th, 2011 by Misty Lindsey