Posts Tagged ‘Juárez’
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 27th, 2010 by mmlindsey
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 8th, 2010 by Misty Lindsey
July 8th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Poetry on the Border
Benjamin Saenz is a Latino poet living in the Borderland. He lives in El Paso and has been doing a series of poems called Odes to Juarez. Saenz’s choice to stay on the border, creating on behalf of the oppressed and disenfranchised, is admirable. His poems are candid, like a mirror over the Borderland reflecting [...]
February 1st, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Morning Sky – Poem for Juarez
Clouds of fire descend on my city,
dismantle the tension of the darkness,
silence the night-howling.
July 30th, 2009 by mmlindsey
The Dividing Line between rich and poor
This video was posted on the El Paso’s NewsPaper Tree site. This is our life… a life in flux. We have only been here for one year, and in a year we have seen the border evolve into a military zone, separating the rich from the poor. Please watch, it is a blaring glimpse into [...]
July 22nd, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
No More Trouble
And we define news as acts of violence rather than the hidden acts of love that keep hope alive… so even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful than death. And even those who have committed great violence can [...]
May 25th, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Juarez. A day in the life…
The darkness of our world will try to smother the light, so we have to surround ourselves with people who make us shine brighter. -Irresistible Revolution Saturday morning. We woke up a little frazzled from the week of relentless office-work we had been doing, stuffed into our dark little office that could have as easily been in any [...]
November 6th, 2008 by mmlindsey
The Bull & The Wolf: Los Borrachos
I have been making friends with El Toro and El Lobo. They are the neighborhood inebriated revelers. Nearly every Saturday morning astoundingly early we find them in the street, already halfway through a plastic bottle of Mescal, tottering around with brooms, sweeping the streets and stopping to howl out greetings to everyone that passes by. “Hey, Bro!”, [...]
August 23rd, 2008 by mmlindsey
Setting up Camp
“Start walking towards the sun. Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you have grown, lifting.” [...]
January 9th, 2011 by Misty Lindsey