Posts Tagged ‘Charles Bowden’
Juárez: On the ground perspective 3
Silence, like protest, is the drug of our time, the way we do something by doing nothing. We march, we wave placards, and we go mum, and all avoid touching the levers of power and all avoid stepping on the third rail of truth. Charles Bowden, Murder City Photo by Bruce Berman of Border – [...]
October 7th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Ciudad Juárez: On the Ground
Photo by Bruce Berman Look on victims of abuse as if what happened to them had happened to you. Hebrews 13 – The Message El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico appear to be one great city if you fly over at night. Here on the ground El Paso and Juarez are called “Sister Cities”. [...]
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 [...]
September 30th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Theories Die
I have found the place where theories die, where explanations are stabbed with sharp knives and flutter down the calles like litter created by the world that will not come here and will not listen to ignorant cries of people busy dying and calling it fate or God’s will or the way things are and [...]
June 2nd, 2010 by mmlindsey
Desert Crossing
I crossed the river about twenty years ago-I can’t be exact about the date, because I am still not sure what crossing really means, except that you can never come back. I just know that I crossed and now I scratch like a caged animal trying to claw my way out and reach the distant [...]
April 6th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Murder City
We can still believe that destroying another human life is an extreme act. Unless of course, the slaughter is done by governments. Or the killing is done to some vague group variously dubbed as terrorists or gangsters or drug dealers or people – and this varies with location – of other color or religious notions. [...]
April 2nd, 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 [...]
October 27th, 2010 by mmlindsey