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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

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When they collected the tear gas canisters, they found they were made in and sent from the US company CTS, Combined Tactical Systems Inc. Though not directly provided by the US government, my interlocuters suspected that the weapons may have been bought with military aid money from the United States. What is solidarity?

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Frontiers and Failures: Kyrsten Sinema’s Political Aesthetics

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Her cowboy outfit at the border fence—a site of cruelty, dispossession, and social and ecological genocide—directly referenced the frontier and its forced ownership by the US government. Sarah Muir and Michael Wroblewski are the section contributing editors for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

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Re-examining Border Security: Asking about the Weather in an Anti-Immigrant Climate

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Credit: Tannya Islas A beach in La Jolla San Diego: The Bordertown On November 4 th , 2024, I made the 111-mile journey down to the beachfront community of La Jolla, California from my home in Chino Hills to attend a talk by Sherri W. Realistically, this falls in line with and is expected of the US government and its military.