A few shots from the USA / Mexico wall
For the last few weeks I’ve been researching the impact of the Wall that is being built at the border between the USA & Mexico, and how it is leading to the deaths of migrants in the Sonora desert in Arizona.
Having received hundreds of stories of resistance from all over the world, we’ve spent the last few months focusing on the Wall that is being built along the entire USA border with Mexico.
It is one of the greatest symbols of the divisions between rich and poor, and inspires a major investigation into the systemic causes of poverty and migration.
We’ve followed the death of one migrant and are currently seeking funding to expand the film to expose a global network of new Walls and the divisive impact they will have on all of our futures.
(Shot on the Canon EOS 7d with the Canon EF 50 mm F1.2L USM lens & Canon EF 14 mm F2.8 L II USM lens).
For the last few weeks I’ve been researching the impact of the Wall that is being built at the border between the USA & Mexico, and how it is leading to the deaths of migrants in the Sonora desert in Arizona.
The new player we built for the Resist Interviews is now up and running featuring conversations with Prof. Wendy Brown, Andrew Simms, Charles Leadbeater, Annie Lennox, Jay Griffiths, Mike Davis, Noam Chomsky, John Perkins, Naomi Klein, John Berger and Wikileaks. These interviews are edited parts of our research for the film with Gael Garcia Bernal. We are asking many writers and political thinkers about their views on power structures, resistance and the future, and rather than keep this private, we wanted to share what we’re learning.
On June 13th I will be joining a discussion at Saybrook
‘New media technologies and strategies are transforming the nature and potential of social activism—from their novel use in the Obama campaign and administration, and in nonprofit organizations, to their deployment by social movements such as the “Twitter Revolution” in Moldova. In this seminar, we will reflect upon these changes, learn some of the skills necessary to utilize these technologies and strategies effectively, critically assess the comparative strengths, weaknesses, and social implications of newer and traditional forms of social change, and consider the impact of the emergence of such technologies on our educational, research, and activist work at Saybrook’.
(photos by Dean Knuth)
You can read my research notes from a trip i made at the beginning of the year.
This is the tree i photographed in Chiapas, Mexico that later became the image we used for the Resist website
Learning of the resistance movement that fought from within the camp, I read this ...
‘Outwardly it might seem that Auschwitz was the last ideal place to start an underground organisation. All reasonable arguments and calculations spoke against any hope of successful underground work, yet, as it turned out, the situation was favourable. Clandestine action is usually taken and is usually successful when all other forms of action have failed, when desperate people must seek secret ties to help each other, to fight an enemy who is too strong for open struggle. Unlimited however, are the moral and physical powers which man has within him’.
Extract from the book ‘Fighting Auschwitz’ by Josef Garlinski (former inmate of Auschwitz, no. 121421)
