Journalist and author Tyche Hendricks will talk about The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, published in May 2010 by the California University Press. Photographs by photojournalists David Maung and Sandy Huffaker (whose work appears on Ms. Hendricks new book) will be shown.
Ms. Hendricks will speak about experiences in the border region that inspired her new book. From emergency rooms to factory floors, farm kitchens and jail cells, Ms. Hendricks spoke with American and Mexican ranchers, environmentalists, police and doctors whose lives intersect at the border. She reasons that, with a stalled immigration policy and a raging drug war, the people who live in the borderlands bear the brunt of the violence, the friction and the pressures of the economic recession. Until policy makers in both countries look at the larger picture of how our two countries are connected, she argues, there cannot be a clear understanding of the border or longer-lasting solutions that benefit both countries.
Ms. Hendricks covered immigration and demographics for many years at the San Francisco Chronicle and is currently an editor at KQED Public Radio. She lectures at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.
Wine reception and live music with guitars and vocals by UCSD students Ai Van Dupuis and John Januario
Admission: FREE
Future members & general public, please register
Thursday, June 3 - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.iamericas.org or call: (858) 453-5560
Ms. Hendricks will speak about experiences in the border region that inspired her new book. From emergency rooms to factory floors, farm kitchens and jail cells, Ms. Hendricks spoke with American and Mexican ranchers, environmentalists, police and doctors whose lives intersect at the border. She reasons that, with a stalled immigration policy and a raging drug war, the people who live in the borderlands bear the brunt of the violence, the friction and the pressures of the economic recession. Until policy makers in both countries look at the larger picture of how our two countries are connected, she argues, there cannot be a clear understanding of the border or longer-lasting solutions that benefit both countries.
Ms. Hendricks covered immigration and demographics for many years at the San Francisco Chronicle and is currently an editor at KQED Public Radio. She lectures at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.
Wine reception and live music with guitars and vocals by UCSD students Ai Van Dupuis and John Januario
Admission: FREE
Future members & general public, please register
Thursday, June 3 - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.iamericas.org or call: (858) 453-5560
