lukas.jonathan
Fuck the border! (please read)
Two old pictures that i dug out again. I found this tag on an abandoned truck in a sad parking lot near the border in San Diego, USA. Certainly does not reflect my own opinion.
The US-Mexican border definitely is one of the strangest places i've been to so far - on one side of the dry river: San Diego, USA. On the other: Tijuana, Mexico. In between: nothing. It is in the borderlands, in this strange and empty no man's land, where the capitalist contradictions clash most visibly. Thousands of people from south of the border have lost their lives trying to get to the "american dream". Hopelessness. Stinky water. Naked concrete. A bleak urban desert. This is what the dream looks like when you come too close...
This is the line that separates the global winners from those condemned to lose, the first from the third world, the poor from the rich, those who hope from those who have...
Como dice Eduardo Galeano: "El desarrollo es un viaje con más náufragos que navegantes."
Fuck the border! (please read)
Two old pictures that i dug out again. I found this tag on an abandoned truck in a sad parking lot near the border in San Diego, USA. Certainly does not reflect my own opinion.
The US-Mexican border definitely is one of the strangest places i've been to so far - on one side of the dry river: San Diego, USA. On the other: Tijuana, Mexico. In between: nothing. It is in the borderlands, in this strange and empty no man's land, where the capitalist contradictions clash most visibly. Thousands of people from south of the border have lost their lives trying to get to the "american dream". Hopelessness. Stinky water. Naked concrete. A bleak urban desert. This is what the dream looks like when you come too close...
This is the line that separates the global winners from those condemned to lose, the first from the third world, the poor from the rich, those who hope from those who have...
Como dice Eduardo Galeano: "El desarrollo es un viaje con más náufragos que navegantes."