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Monday, October 24, 2005

Border Film Project

(from the huffington post...)
Every day, thousands of undocumented migrants cross the U.S.-Mexico border looking for a better life for themselves and their families. This summer, we went to migrant houses in Mexico and distributed 400 disposable cameras in prepaid, self-addressed envelopes to potential migrants, instructing them to take pictures of their journey across the dangerous Arizona desert.

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[W]e sent another 60 cameras to the controversial Minuteman Project volunteers and asked them to document their lives on the border. Both sets of photos will be developed, juried by a panel of politicians, community leaders, and artists, and shown at major art galleries in the coming months.

one of my best friends crossed the border illegally two and a half years ago to work construction with his brother who was already in the u.s... a year ago this month, he was killed in an automobile accident in kansas... he left behind a wife and a six year-old daughter in mexico... i am his daughter's godfather...

(visit the border film project here...)

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