Kate Scott

Dynamite Blasts and Paradise Lost One of North America’s Last Pristine Prairies in the San Rafael Valley Will Be Scarred Forever as the Border Wall Advances in Southern Arizona.

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Local immigrant rights activist Dora Rodriguez, on surviving a border crossing — and her new memoir - AZ Luminaria In the summer of 1980, Dora Rodriguez almost died in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Along with a group of 30 people, most of them having fled violence and the beginnings of a gruesome civil war ...

I spoke with Dora Rodriguez, Tucson-based immigrant activist who nearly died crossing the desert in 1980, about her memoir.

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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

This is the moment we're in:
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BREAKING: The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Admin today for unconstitutionally waiving dozens of enviro laws to speed border wall construction across San Rafael Valley in AZ’s Sky Island region, a biodiversity hotspot w/the most significant jaguar corridor remaining along border.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Massive Mural of Ashamed Statue of Liberty Emerges in France Dutch street artist Judith de Leeuw said she created the piece in response to the United States’s cruel immigration policies.

A mural depicting the Statue of Liberty covering her face in shame appeared on a building in Northern France.
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Open Borders - 99% Invisible A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinem...

Imagine people migrating freely and negotiating a niche in their new communities.

This 34-min. podcast is an excellent summary of ideas from @jwashing.bsky.social’s humane book.

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Lipstick on a Land Grab: Sen. Mike Lee’s Revised Bill Still Privatizes the West If we give them an inch, they will take a mile. Say it loud: Not One Acre.

The redlines are in—& let’s be clear: the core purpose of this bill remains unchanged. It’s a mass privatization scheme dressed up as housing reform. A calculated dismantling of public ownership, repackaged as “disposal.” A land grab by any other name.

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U.S. Customs & Border Protection has waived environmental, public health & Native American cultural protection laws, & awarded a > quarter of a billion dollar contract to Fisher Sand & Gravel to construct 27 miles of new border wall across critical habitat in the jaguar’s northern range.

Take a Stand for Public Lands Public lands across the United States are at risk: President Donald Trump and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency want to sell them off to private interests. Urge your representative and...

ACT NOW: Tell your Senator that there will be hell to pay if they allow Trump and his billionaire oligarch cronies to seize and dispose of our nation's cherished public lands:
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Binational Border Happening, May 31, 2025 Happened! Murmurations from the San Rafael Valley Borderlands Bird Flock, poetry, songs, wonderful food shared by our friends from Santa Cruz, Mexico. Joy and happiness is a strategy for resistance! 🙏🏽 @bluerobedcrone.bsky.social 📸 #AllWallsMustFall

New: Responding to a public rulemaking petition, the AZ Game and Fish Dept. and Commission colluded with state legislators to sever the agency's own legal authority to limit dog pack hunting and, in turn, harassment of endangered jaguars and ocelots.

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Sharing this inspiring illustration and story from Denise Kester, Drawing on the Dream. #MakeMagic #ArtMattersMost