Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights Open Media)
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (672 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06VY1R3FL |
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| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Despite growing millions of climate refugees caught in the crosshairs of border enforcement regimes, Miller finds hope?hope that may not survive in Trumpworld."—Molly Molloy, Research librarian for Latin America and the border at New Mexico State University and creator of "Frontera List""Storming the Wall is essential reading in our climate disrupted world. Hyped-up fears morph climate justice activists into terrorists; the security state targets any and all of the poor and powerless. Journalist and activ
He also weaves in stories of people engaged in creative defiance of the armies, border patrols, and police being deployed to fight those in need. Miller explores how a sense of threat in the United States is giving rise to high-tech surveillance fortresses and fueling calls for an ever-expanding border wall. Todd Miller's important book chronicles how existing disparities in wealth and power, combined with the dramatic changes we are causing in this planet's ecosystems, mean either we come together around our common humanity or forfeit the right to call ourselves fully human."—Robert J