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Tuesday Morning Beat host Maree McHugh conversation with Freida Adams RN, Medical Director of Border Servants Corp Asylum Shelter in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Frieda explains the experience of asylum seekers who come to the shelter, and tells us of her many years providing humanitarian aid and medical care. https://www.borderservantcorps.org
Artist Alvaro Enciso discusses "Where Dreams Die" - creating and placing crosses on the Sonoran desert to mark the places where migrants have perished, crossing the US border. Host: Maree McHugh contact: maree@gmcr.org Resources: Human Borders - https://humaneborders.org Frontera Aid collective - email: migrantterainsr@gmail.org Southern border Communities coalition - http://www.southernborder.org No More Deaths/ No Mas Muertes - http://nomoredeats.org
Tuesday Morning Beat host Maree McHugh interview with Grant County LGBTQ Board of Directors member Scott Plate. Scott Plate discusses current challenges that face the LGBTQIA community, and how to move forward with empowerment and support. For more information: Contact Grant County LGBTQ at LGBTQGC.org; email info@LGBTQGC.org; Call 575-777-0647 if no answer please leave a message Mark your calendars for Silver City Pride Festival September 9th from 11 am to […]
Host Maree McHugh interviews writer/author Meagan O'Toole Pitts and artist/illustrator Ashton Kayleigh about the newly published children's book about the 1917 El Paso Bath Riots. entitled "Carmelita". The story tells of the heroic young woman Carmelita Torres who protested forced disinfection of Mexican people crossing the Santé Fe bridge to work in El Paso. The book is written in English and Spanish languages. O'Toole Pitts discusses the political influences and […]
Mellissa delBosque of the Border Chronicle.com interviews psychotherapist Alejandra Spector. https://www.theborderchronicle.com June27, 2023 (with permission from Border Chronicle.com) OTHER: Interested in helping with water drops for migrants in the desert? email: migrantterrainsr@gmail.com Comments, suggestions re Tuesday Morning Beat are welcome. Email maree@gmcr.org
Interview with Juan Rascon, General manager of BORDER PARTNERS in Palomas, Mexico. Border Partners is a 501c3 organization now in its 15th year providing food, nutrition, education and support for the people of the Palomas area communities. For more information go to https://borderpartners.org/ Contact your DJ/host Maree McHugh at maree@gmcr.org THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!!! Recorded interviews :with Juan Rascon
Interview with FRONTERA AID COLLECTIVE volunteers. Bryce Peterson, Lauren Cruz and Scott Eichling discuss an open letter sent to Customs and Border Patrol Tucson Region concerning the epic volunteer February rescue of a Guatemalan man lost in the Sonoran Desert, and the lack of response from CBP. Peterson, Cruz and Eichling also discuss the process of obtaining death data for migrants found in the New Mexico desert; the ongoing need […]
