Happy Birthday Clara!!

Well it has been far too long since I have posted anything on my blog. My apologies!!

Unfortunately, there also hasn't been much to blog about.

Today is my little sister's 22nd birthday. CONGRATS! There's some news :)

Also, I'm coming home on November 20th for a week...there's some more news.

My computer full on crashed: dead. Kaput. No more. That's really upsetting news.


Recently, an organization that I'm involved with, called No More Deaths, published a report detailing Border Patrol abuses against migrants in the last 3 years. The report is incredibly detailed, and takes samples of reports of abuse from Nogales, Naco, and Agua Prieta, where I'm living. My roommate Phil and I both did work on the report as well, translating pages into Spanish so that it may be published bi-ligually.

See it on CNN!

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/22/us/border-patrol-allegations/index.html?iref=allsearch

You can also download the whole report for free, or buy it for $15 from our website: (please be advised, this website has very graphic images of the types of violence that we see on the border)

www.cultureofcruelty.org

Here are some pictures from our Report launch outside the Naco Border Patrol Station yesterday.