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The Evolving Border

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On December 15, 2015
Paul Ashby has a good piece on what is happening with US-Mexican relations, particularly around the border: business and capital is integrated to cross the border smoothly while the border itself is increasingly militarized to keep what the U.S. doesn’t want coming in to stay out. And that requires American policing to extend well into […]

Sentinels of Silence

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On August 28, 2015
Why can’t Orson Welles be brought back from the dead to narrate documentaries? Had to link instead of embed because of the film’s privacy settings, but it’s a cool documentary of sorts on indigenous Mexican ruins.
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The global berry industry is probably not one you think about much but you should. The terrible conditions of food production around the world is something that I cover quite a bit both here at in Out of Sight. The food production system is as hidden from you as apparel or plastics or oil, but […]
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Who Grows Your Food?

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On December 8, 2014
The food industry, along with the apparel industry, has long led the way in labor exploitation. Throughout the 20th century, agricultural interests went to extreme lengths to keep labor costs down, which meant paying them as close to nothing as possible, crushing any organizing efforts through violence, winning exemptions from labor law, and creating arrangements […]

The 43 Students

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On November 7, 2014

As you have may have heard, in September, the municipal police of a town in Guerrero, Mexico where the mayor and his wife had close ties with the cartels kidnapped 43 protesting students from a poor t

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