Treescapes

We’ve each been looking to the trees for a long time. One of us painting, the other writing, with, by the trees. In the middle of the city and its noise, finding the branches. Standing, inquiring, returning. Why the trees, how we belong to each other, is a question worth asking again and again. These paintings and poems are part of an ongoing conversation, of many layers, of many trees, of what we lose and find under their canopies, in blooms, in dirt & seasons. What walking among the trees has taught us is that every art is an invitation to the mutuality of life. Through paintings it means creating an opening of treescapes and orchards for people to become a part of & inhabit. & every exchange of poetry is a welcoming to community, listening, growth

Sanctuary Says

In 2018, the New School Working Group on Expanded Sanctuary collaboratively organized a series of workshops in New York to reflect on the question of sanctuary as a conceptual and practical starting point for cross-coalitional politics, including its tensions and risks. This short piece is an attempt to bring together the sentiments expressed in those workshops by activists, organizers, students and academics focusing on anti-racist, pro-migrant, and pro-Indigenous struggles, in a form that engages sanctuary as an ongoing question

Del congreso a los suburbios: iniciativas locales para el control de la migración en Estados Unidos

Este artículo analiza las implicaciones de las iniciativas de ley y ordenanzas locales para controlar la migración que se han propuesto en numerosos estados y ciudades de Estados Unidos ante el fracaso de la reforma migratoria en el Congreso. La primera parte describe las facultades de las autoridades locales y estatales para garantizar el cumplimiento de las leyes migratorias, así como los cambios en la legislación e instrumentación de estas medidas a partir del once de septiembre. La segunda parte examina casos recientes de ordenanzas e iniciativas de ley propuestas por gobiernos estatales y asambleas locales para enfrentar el crecimiento de la población de inmigrantes indocumentados. Finalmente, propongo una reflexión sobre la relevancia de esta situación en el contexto del debate más amplio sobre la reforma migratoria en Estados Unidos, los retos que representa para el gobierno mexicano y la posibilidad de aprovechar la labor de varios actores que participan en el debate a nivel local promoviendo medidas a favor de los inmigrantes frente a esta ola anti-inmigrante

Memory Protest and Contested Time: The Antimonumentos Route in Mexico City

This article examines the corridor of Antimonumentos (antimonuments) in Mexico City. In a context of more than 110,000 enforced disappearances and hundreds of thousands of deaths since the start of the “war on drug cartels” in 2006, the Antimonumentos are one of the ways in which memory activists seek to mark significant events of violence and state neglect, and expressly confront both the government and society by voicing public demands for justice, accountability, and non-repetition. They occupy public spaces anonymously, without permission, and establish a link between past and present instances of state violence, thereby drawing attention to intersecting forms of violence. We examine how these countermonuments exemplify a protest against a specific regime of temporality, and how they also allow us to reflect on the temporality of protests