... This chapter gives insight into how cross-border solidarity movements can be constructed and sustained by examining MADRE, a community-based international human rights organization advocating for Indigenous women and girls. Using case studies of social justice campaigns across the US-Mexico...

... and arid conditions around the dam site deep in the Sierra Madre of Durango. It describes how the National Irrigation Commission tried to make the site into an exemplary “company town” that reached a population peak of thirteen thousand and featured socially stratified housing, schools, hospitals...

... Congress; amid the rise of Juan Perón; in the protests of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo during the civic-military dictatorship; and during specific episodes of violence, like the Ezeiza massacre. Documents also illustrate more recent types of demonstrations, including encampments, piquetes , escraches...

...Indigenous Peoples Exercising Self-Determination Across Borders This chapter gives insight into how cross-border solidarity movements can be constructed and sustained by examining MADRE, a community-based international human rights organization advocating for Indigenous women and girls. Using...

... of them ejidatarios (members of ejidos)—on the Nazas River Dam construction site from 1936 to 1946. It begins with the trials and tribulations of técnicos doing the preliminary reconnaissance work in hot and arid conditions around the dam site deep in the Sierra Madre of Durango. It describes how...