5/17: Emergency March and Rally: Full Rights for All Immigrants

Most of these anti-immigrant types need to take a hard look in the mirror, and decide how just deep into hypocrisy they want to wade.

"Pilgrims" and "pioneers" indeed.



PS: Pro-African too!

Quit trying the tired stereotypes that this is just an issue of racism.

Some of you just want to break the law and get away with it while others of us became legal the right way.

La Frontera, or the border between Mexico and the US is an entity of the human imagination. No God, natural spirit entity or physical landmark really exists that justifies the so-called border wall region between the US and Mexico..

Centuries ago the indigenous ancestors of modern day Mexicans traveled for miles to the north and introduced maize (corn) to the indigenous peoples of the Mississippi Valley. Evidence for this transition exists at the Cahokia Mounds site in Illinois/Missouri..

"The Mississippian tradition was based, in part, on the introduction of new strains of maize (perhaps from Mexico, although some researchers have suggested maize may have diffused eastward from the agricultural Anasazi of New Mexico), perhaps as early as A.D. 800. Mexican beans were also added into the Mississippian diets by at least A.D. 1000, providing an important protein supplement as well as releasing populations from density constraints based on the availability of wild animal proteins."

more on Cahokia;
http://www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/mississ.html

This from "Ethnocide by Exclusion" by Jack Forbes;

"Mesoamerican influences in the present area of the United States are extremely ancient, going back at least to the appearance of maize, beans and squash horticulture, several thousands of years ago, but actually extending back to the period of 40,000-13,000 BP (before the present) when a prominent linguist, Dr. Johanna Nichol, argues that the ancestors of later Americans (except for Inuit-Aleut peoples) were living south of the great ice-sheets, mostly in Meso and South America. After the ice-melt began a great northward movement commenced, bring many of our American language families into the present area of the USA. But most of our great language groups still have speakers spread out from Montana to Meso-America, and from Wyoming and Idaho to Nicaragua."

cont's @;
http://nas.ucdavis.edu/Forbes/Ethnocide_by_Exclusion.html

The site "borderecoweb" mentioned in a comment above is primarily a government venture between the EPA (US) and SEMARNAP (Mexico), though some other non-governmental NGOs are also on board. They're not exactly Earth First!ers, though there are some weblinx with relevent info on ecological issues along the imaginary borderline..

http://www.borderecoweb.sdsu.edu/

Obviously the impact of Bush/Cheney regime's plan to militarize the border is going to have a worse impact than the already obstructive concrete wall on migratory animals like the Sonoran pronghorn antelope. These endangered species need to travel far and wide to obtain food and water in this desert ecosystem. Needless to say the presence of the frontera wall doesn't have them jumping for joy..

"A sharp population decline over the last year has left as few as 30 of the animals alive on their last piece of U.S. range in Arizona’s Sonoran desert. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service calls it a "red-alert situation" - yet the government agencies involved continue to allow harmful activities in Sonoran pronghorn habitat including:

Public Lands Grazing, Military Activities, Roads and Habitat Fragmentation, U.S.- Mexico Border Activities"

more info @;
http://www.defenders.org/wildlife/pronghorn/overview.html

Other problems with property ownership and imaginary border concepts of division primarily found in the heads of Euro-american immigrants can be witnessed in the struggle over the community garden in South Central LA. Here a green gem of a community garden that provides biodiverse food plants for people and pollinators is under serious threat of destruction by developer Ralph Horowitz. This so-called property owner insists on an exorbinant amount of money from the community farm to prevent him from destroying the farm and building a drab, grey, dead warehouse over this once productive green oasis ecosystem..

"Known as the largest urban farm in the country, South Central Farm provides food and sustenance to some of the most underserved residents in Los Angeles.

"The farm," says DiCaprio, "holds a remarkable array of biodiversity and, because of its size, functions as a carbon sink, a natural environment that stores more carbon than it releases into the atmosphere, and this helps reduce global warming. We have to start acknowledging that every action counts."
"

help save the sc community farm @;
http://www.southcentralfarmers.com/


The effects of globalization and Plan Puebla Panama on Mesoamerica made public by the beehive collective;

What can one little ant do?
http://www.beehivecollective.org/

getting ready to swarm..

Broke the law, go to the end of the line. As we catch you, out you go. Or head out on your own and get back in line. As least we won't know that you broke the law. No need to export 12 million people at once.