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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Wall movies...part 1?
Starting to look for up-to-date footage of the US/Mexico wall. So far I'm finding stuff from a few years back, though maybe it's still fully relevant. Cheers to Al Jazeera; here's a sample of the stuff I'm digging around in:
This video makes the excellent point that our country has a "schizophrenic" policy. That is, we say "STAY OUT" and "CHEAP HELP WANTED" simultaneously. There are street signs on High Street and other parts of Oakland and Berkeley for "day workers" which belie the wall. Check this out:
This video makes the excellent point that our country has a "schizophrenic" policy. That is, we say "STAY OUT" and "CHEAP HELP WANTED" simultaneously. There are street signs on High Street and other parts of Oakland and Berkeley for "day workers" which belie the wall. Check this out:
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