All posts tagged "Arizona-Mexican border"
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Hooray! Peg Bowden has started up her blog again. You want a front row seat to immigration? Here it is.sign up
Peg Bowden resumes her blog that documents immigration issues. Her post today, as she sit playing Bach is a must read.
- Posted February 20, 2017
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Peg Bowden’s back and trekking Arizona’s desert in search of a lost traveler
Join Peg Bowden as she treks through the Arizona Mexican desert in search of bodies of lost souls who perished looking for home - whether going North or South
- Posted March 23, 2016
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Peg Bowden’s Back and Telling It Like It Is on the Arizona Border. Bad News, Folks. Really Bad.
1 Year Ago, an Unexplained Shooting on the Arizona Border Brought Outrage From Concerned Citizens Everywhere. Nothing has Been Solved, But Peg Bowden Gives Her Report on the Progress of the Case
- Posted October 23, 2013
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Border Report Gives Us Some Band Aid Work: Clean Socks for Fire Walkers
A very thin man in a bright red shirt gave me a small smile last week, and as I approached he invited me to sit with him on the long bench. He had several missing front teeth,...
- Posted October 9, 2012
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If The Shoe Fits: A Border Report from Peg Bowden
If the shoe fits: migrants get a new pair of shoes at the comedor.Several years ago I did the rim to rim hike across the Grand Canyon, a 26 mile hike from the North to South Rim...
- Posted April 19, 2012
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Waste Not: A Border Report from the Courthouse in Tucson, Arizona
By Peg Bowden, for www.arroya.org View from the Tucson Courthouse A few weeks ago I had my day in court. I witnessed “Operation Streamline”, the court system that speeds up “due process” for the thousands of immigrants who have...
- Posted April 3, 2012
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Folklorico ’12 Coming to the Arizona Mexico Border April 28. Mark your Calendars
Trvel to Arizona Mexico border April 28 for a Folklorico Festival. Yes! A great opportunity.
- Posted March 18, 2012
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Why do people make pilgrimages across the desert? To find love, of course.
making the pilgrimage: why do people make dangerous crossings through the desert going north, going south? To reunite with famlies. A drive more ancient than modern day political distinctions. The Mexicans going in...
- Posted March 12, 2012
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Loaves and Fishes At The Comedor: Border Report from Peg Bowden
So many things I encounter at the comedor in Nogales, Sonora, remind me of Bible stories. Today is no exception. As the Samaritans approach the humble comedor shelter, there is a large crowd assembled in front. One...
- Posted February 19, 2012
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Border Wars between Mexico and the U.S. are documented by French Film Makers at the Comedor in Nogales. Wars? Really?
Is there a war at the border between Arizona and Mexico? Ask French film makers working on a documentary at the Comedor in Nogales as they explain to our own Peg Bowden about the war they...
- Posted February 4, 2012