Alternative Migrant Trail Walk 2020
Dear Migrant Trail Walk Participant,
Welcome to the final day of the Migrant Trail Walk! Today would be our seventh day of walking and we would normally walk 6.7 miles today. If you are physically and safely able to walk, we invite you to walk any distance that you choose and to do that with intention. You can view links to previous speakers' recordings and daily podcasts listed at the bottom of this message.
En solidaridad,
The Alternative Migrant Trail Walk Organizing Committee 2020
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Daily Reflection:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmrNjmdzpN_spN6_yjIqHzw
Daily Podcast:
Surviving Trump’s Border Crossing is Just the Beginning. Here’s What Happens Next (35 min)
Closing Ceremony and Conversation
5:30 PM PST/AZ / 6:30PM Mountain / 7:30 PM Central / 8:30 PM Eastern Via Zoom
This final meeting will be a closing reflection about our virtual walk week together. Several participants will share, and we will end by reading out the names of those who have lost their lives in the desert, and reflect on how we can move forward as a collective community to take active steps toward dismantling systems of injustice on all borders.
Previous Speaker Recordings:
DAY 1: Welcome to the Virtual Migrant Trail 2020: Orientation and History
DAY 2: Lupe Castillo - Broadening our Borderlands History
DAY 3: Nellie Jo David - O'odham Roots Run Deeper than Walls
DAY 4: Todd Miller - In an Empire of Borders, Build Bridges, Not Walls
DAY 5: Dan Millis “The Environmental Implications of Border Militarization”
DAY 6: Jessica Rodriguez: “Living DACAmented”
DAY 7: Margo Cowan- Community Organizing & Legal Justice in the Borderlands
Previous Podcasts:
DAY 2: Border Trilogy Part 1: Hole in the Fence (50 min)
DAY 3: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Exist, Self Determination, Language and Due Process In Migration (this is also an attachment on today’s email)
Language Politics and Practice: the Systematic Erasure of Indigenous Central American Migrants (40 minutes)
DAY 4: Border Trilogy Part 2: Hold the Line (50 min)
DAY 5: Bearing Witness in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands with Conservationist Laiken Jordahl (40 min)
DAY 6: Border Trilogy Part 3: What Remains (50 min)
DAY 7: Immigrants In ICE Detention Face The Threat Of COVID-19 (30 min)
Welcome to the final day of the Migrant Trail Walk! Today would be our seventh day of walking and we would normally walk 6.7 miles today. If you are physically and safely able to walk, we invite you to walk any distance that you choose and to do that with intention. You can view links to previous speakers' recordings and daily podcasts listed at the bottom of this message.
En solidaridad,
The Alternative Migrant Trail Walk Organizing Committee 2020
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Daily Reflection:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmrNjmdzpN_spN6_yjIqHzw
Daily Podcast:
Surviving Trump’s Border Crossing is Just the Beginning. Here’s What Happens Next (35 min)
Closing Ceremony and Conversation
5:30 PM PST/AZ / 6:30PM Mountain / 7:30 PM Central / 8:30 PM Eastern Via Zoom
This final meeting will be a closing reflection about our virtual walk week together. Several participants will share, and we will end by reading out the names of those who have lost their lives in the desert, and reflect on how we can move forward as a collective community to take active steps toward dismantling systems of injustice on all borders.
Previous Speaker Recordings:
DAY 1: Welcome to the Virtual Migrant Trail 2020: Orientation and History
DAY 2: Lupe Castillo - Broadening our Borderlands History
DAY 3: Nellie Jo David - O'odham Roots Run Deeper than Walls
DAY 4: Todd Miller - In an Empire of Borders, Build Bridges, Not Walls
DAY 5: Dan Millis “The Environmental Implications of Border Militarization”
DAY 6: Jessica Rodriguez: “Living DACAmented”
DAY 7: Margo Cowan- Community Organizing & Legal Justice in the Borderlands
Previous Podcasts:
DAY 2: Border Trilogy Part 1: Hole in the Fence (50 min)
DAY 3: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Exist, Self Determination, Language and Due Process In Migration (this is also an attachment on today’s email)
Language Politics and Practice: the Systematic Erasure of Indigenous Central American Migrants (40 minutes)
DAY 4: Border Trilogy Part 2: Hold the Line (50 min)
DAY 5: Bearing Witness in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands with Conservationist Laiken Jordahl (40 min)
DAY 6: Border Trilogy Part 3: What Remains (50 min)
DAY 7: Immigrants In ICE Detention Face The Threat Of COVID-19 (30 min)