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Letter to my friend: I’m On My Way Martin

Mar­tin, man of dig­nity and courage, Lomas del Poleo, Sum­mer 2009 Dear Mar­tin, I said I would be back to Lomas and I haven’t been back in a year now. It’s crazy. I drive to work in Las Cruces three times a week and I look to the west and I can see you, I can […]

Woman of Lomas del Poleo

Woman of Lomas del Poleo, Juarez — 2009

Lomas del Poleo For Now

Tres niños before The Grid, June 2009 Lomas del Poleo/Juarez, Chihuahua/Mexico June 20, 2009 Lomas del Poleo. The bat­tle goes on. More peo­ple leave. Peo­ple fight to stay.  A mean strip of ten lane high­way has snaked its way through Lomas del Poleo (see pre­vi­ous posts or Google it). The Devel­op­ers got what they needed and left […]

Lomas del Poleo revisited

Protest for Lomas del Poleo, El Paso-Jan. 2008 It was only a year ago that the plight of the peo­ple of Lomas del Poleo was the high­est pri­or­ity of cross bor­der activist pol­i­tics. The peo­ple were sys­tem­at­i­cally being robbed of their land, their court actions were, basi­cally, being stonewalled, the injus­tice of the top to […]

Angel in the ‘hood

Segundo bar­rio, Armijo Park, El Paso /Sept. 2008