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Trump’s threats to go to war with Iran made me feel powerless and lonely because I’m afraid there’s nothing to stop it. I tried to produce an anti-war story, but then realized this one by Joe is much better.
Link to Joe’s website
Link to the original broadcast on Unfictional
photo by Michal Story
Biloxi, Mississippi
Here are some links to the music used in this story:
Ray Charles, Sweet Sixteen Bars from the album The Best of Ray Charles, Atlantic SD 1543
Greg Allen Jones, Monticello Rose and Boll Weevil from the album Crossing the Willamette
The Mountain Goats, Love, Love, Love from the album The Sunset Tree
A very good place for crawfish jambalaya, New Orleans.
One of the buildings in New Orleans that was flooded after Katrina broke the levee.
Gulf Shore
Gulf Shore
One of the places in Florida where there are no taxis or ride share drivers.
I just got back from speaking at two radio conferences in Europe. I saw the leaves come out on the trees along the canals in Amsterdam. I woke up in Ireland next to a pasture with four wooly alpacas, one just a baby. I spent days talking about how podcasting works from the bottom up, forming a lattice of connections that reach around the skin of the earth. This is better than the top-down fear-mongering of the corporate media. I said these things with confidence, because of you. I get letters from every continent including Antartica and they all sound like they were written by the same person...because we’re all in the same lattice.
For more music by the Mermen click here.
Ron Strickland, father of the Pacific Northwest Trail.
The PNT crosses the Kootenai River Valley, north of Sandpoint, Idaho.
The ceiba tree in the park where the rap battle took place. Chamelecon, Honduras.
The playing field under the tree.
Rapper 23 is “Yosie,” who reads history for inspiration.
Some of the new caravan before departing from the bus station in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. January 14, 2019.
A single mom with kids waiting to leave from the bus station in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. January 14, 2019.
He said he was too old to walk all the way to the United States, but would accompany the caravan to the border with Guatemala. January 14, 2019.
Ruth Pena and her daughter, from El Salvador, at the beach in Tijuana. That’s the border wall in the background.
The outfield at the ball park in Tijuana.
Near second base at the ball park in Tijuana.
Scar from eight bullets on the thigh of one of the Honduran men.
Leaving the ball park.
Standing in line for breakfast outside the ball park.
Inside one of the Evangelical refuges in the hills surrounding Tijuana.
Outside one of the Evangelical refuges in the hills surrounding Tijuana.
A sticker on one of the steel columns of the border wall south of Las Cruces, NM.
Another sticker on the wall,south of Las Cruces.
Katie Davis and Molly Molloy at the wall south of Las Cruces.
At Casa del Migrante in Juarez, the wrists of Estela Magdalena Simon Esteban, 23 years old, and her three-year-old daughter, Zaida. These numbers are their place in line to apply for political asylum at the El Paso port of entry. Photo by Julian Cardona.
Estela Magdalena Simon Esteban and her three-year old daughter, Zaida, at Casa del Migrante in Juarez, Chihuahua. After her husband crossed to the US without documents, a man made constant attempts of sexual assault against Estela and she decided to leave her town, Playa Grande, Guatemala. Now she seeks to apply for political asylum to reunite with her husband in Salisbury, Maryland. Photo by Julian Cardona.
Juana Machenaquenich, 34, at Casa del Migrante. She was forced to leave Guatemala because several men were constantly trying to rape her 16-year-old daughter, Andrea Patricia. With Andrea and her two-year-old daughter Zuly Raquel (pictured) she will try to cross the border to reunite with her husband who lives undocumented near Washington D.C. Photo by Julian Cardona.
A girl plays in a courtyard of Casa del Migrante behind Juana Machenaquenich and her two-year-old daughter Zuly Raquel. Many of the migrants or refugees from Central America are now coming to the United States with their children. Photo by Julian Cardona.
Immigrants crossing the border near Agua Prieta, Sonora, 2005. Photo by Julian Cardona.
Migrants from Mexico crossing into the United States at the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge near Sasabe, Arizona, 2005. Photo by Julian Cardona.
Music: Slow Bicycle by Mum.
Collage by Charles Hope
Collage by Charles Hope
Firewood in Monument Valley, collected on Cedar Mesa to heat Navajo homes.
