Posts Tagged ‘Violence in Juárez’
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 [...]
February 7th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
This is Juarez
Photo by Misty Lindsey 2010 “I never even gave the United States much thought,” said José Luís Aguilar Rangel, 38, as he stood over his son’s coffin, which lay next to the coffin of his nephew Horacio. “But Mexico has abandoned us, betrayed us. “Shame on them,” he said, alluding to authorities he described as [...]
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.
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 [...]
November 4th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
in-between
Dead leaves, crushed without a thought
of the life that had once blazed within the veins of the
delicate skeletons, only move now with the
wind and the boots and the shoes; marionette puppets,
lifeless and broken.
September 9th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Irony in the Desert
Dear Child of God, if we are truly to understand that God loves all of us, we must recognize that He loves our enemies, too. God does not share our hatred, no matter what the offense we have endured. Desmund Tutu Still not sure how Chris sniped this photo; comes with his tactical training, I [...]
September 3rd, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Seven
I can’t stand your religious meetings.
I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects,
your pretentious slogans and goals.
August 25th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Greening the Ghetto: Street Art
I have made it my business to use the green economy as a social and economic solution to poverty. I want to Green the Ghetto. Majora Carter Back in February we began writing about Greening the Ghetto here in our own neighborhood in Juarez. Sure, it is a daunting prospect, but we are continuing to dream [...]
July 31st, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Service in the Desert
The greatest sin of political imagination is thinking there in no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today. Jesus for President This billboard says, “Serve your community”. Ambiguous and obnoxious billboards are infecting this already polluted city. Flooding the streets with more assault rifles strengthens the violence, injects more fear, closes more [...]
July 29th, 2009 by mmlindsey
New Desert War
It was hot. Tensions were boiling under the strain of the desert sun. Everyone was gripped, toes dug into the baking sand. The bombs whistled, cutting through the shimmering heat waves like melted butter. They could not out run them. Bombs colliding with flesh, fear on every face. When the dust settled, laughter was rippling [...]
March 22nd, 2010 by Matt Lindsey