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Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders
Paperback
Series: City Lights Open Media
General SociologyImmigration & RefugeesSocial Movements
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9780872868342
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
Is it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival? Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned call to envision-and work toward-a bold new reality.
Todd Miller cuts through the facile media myths and escapes the paralyzing constraints of a political 'debate' that functions mainly to obscure the unconscionable inequalities that borders everywhere secure. In its soulfulness, its profound moral imagination, and its vision of radical solidarity, Todd Miller's work is as indispensable as the love that so palpably guides it.--Ben Ehrenreich, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
The stories of the humble people of the earth Miller documents ask us to also tear down the walls in our hearts and in our heads. What proliferates in the absence of these walls and in spite of them, Miller writes, is the natural state of things centered on kindness and compassion.--Nick Estes, author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
By the time Todd Miller spots him, Juan Carlos has been wandering alone in a remote border region for days. Parched, hungry and disoriented, he approaches and asks for a ride. Miller's instinct is to oblige, but he hesitates: Furthering an unauthorized person's entrance into the U.S. is a federal crime.
Todd Miller has been reporting from international border zones for over twenty-five years. In Build Bridges, Not Walls, he invites readers to join him on a journey that begins with the most basic of questions: What happens to our collective humanity when the impulse to help one another is criminalized?
A series of encounters-with climate refugees, members of indigenous communities, border authorities, modern-day abolitionists, scholars, visionaries, and the shape-shifting imagination of his four-year-old son-provoke a series of reflections on the ways in which nation-states create the problems that drive immigration, and how the abolition of borders could make the world a more sustainable, habitable place for all.
Praise for Build Bridges, Not Walls:
Todd Miller's deeply reported, empathetic writing on the American border is some of the most essential journalism being done today. As this book reveals, the militarization of our border is a simmering crisis that harms vulnerable people every day. It's impossible to read his work without coming away changed.--Adam Conover, creator and host of Adam Ruins Everything and host of Factually!
All of Todd Miller's work is essential reading, but Build Bridges, Not Walls is his most compelling, insightful work yet.--Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crises (And the Next)
Miller calls us to see how borders subject millions of people to violence, dehumanization, and early death. More importantly, he highlights the urgent necessity to abolish not only borders, but the nation-state itself.--A. Naomi Paik, author of Bans, Walls Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II
Miller lays bare the senselessness and soullessness of the nation-state and its borders and border walls, and reimagines, in their place, a complete and total restoration, therefore redemption, of who we are, and of who we are in desperate need of becoming.--Brandon Shimoda, author of The Grave on the Wall
Miller's latest book is a personal, wide-ranging, and impassioned call for abolishing borders.--John Washington, author of The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond
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