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Is it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival? Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned call to envisionand work towarda bold new reality.
Todd Miller cuts through the facile media myths and escapes the paralyzing constraints of a political debate that functions mainly to obscure the unconscionable inequalities that borders everywhere secure. In its soulfulness, its profound moral imagination, and its vision of radical solidarity, Todd Millers work is as indispensable as the love that so palpably guides it.Ben Ehrenreich, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
The stories of the humble people of the earth Miller documents ask us to also tear down the walls in our hearts and in our heads. What proliferates in the absence of these walls and in spite of them, Miller writes, is the natural state of things centered on kindness and compassion.Nick Estes, author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
By the time Todd Miller spots him, Juan Carlos has been wandering alone in a remote border region for days. Parched, hungry and disoriented, he approaches and asks for a ride. Millers instinct is to oblige, but he hesitates: Furthering an unauthorized persons entrance into the U.S. is a federal crime.
Todd Miller has been reporting from international border zones for over twenty-five years. In Build Bridges, Not Walls, he invites readers to join him on a journey that begins with the most basic of questions: What happens to our collective humanity when the impulse to help one another is criminalized?
A series of encounterswith climate refugees, members of indigenous communities, border authorities, modern-day abolitionists, scholars, visionaries, and the shape-shifting imagination of his four-year-old sonprovoke a series of reflections on the ways in which nation-states create the problems that drive immigration, and how the abolition of borders could make the world a more sustainable, habitable place for all.
Is it possible to imagine a borderless world? How could it emerge, and how might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies that threaten our collective survival? Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned call to envisionand work towarda bold new reality.
Praise for Build Bridges, Not Walls:
Todd Millers deeply reported, empathetic writing on the American border is some of the most essential journalism being done today. As this book reveals, the militarization of our border is a simmering crisis that harms vulnerable people every day. Its impossible to read his work without coming away changed.Adam Conover, creator and host of Adam Ruins Everything and host of Factually!
All of Todd Millers work is essential reading, but Build Bridges, Not Walls is his most compelling, insightful work yet.Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crises (And the Next)
Miller calls us to see how borders subject millions of people to violence, dehumanization, and early death. More importantly, he highlights the urgent necessity to abolish not only borders, but the nation-state itself.A. Naomi Paik, author of Bans, Walls Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II
Todd Miller not only makes the case for tearing down the walls of Fortress America, but also for the future of the planet and humanity. The stories of the humble people of the earth he documents ask us to also tear down the walls in our hearts and in our heads. What proliferates in the absence of these walls and in spite of them, Miller writes, is the natural state of things centered on kindness and compassion.Nick Estes, author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Miller lays bare the senselessness and soullessness of the nation-state and its borders and border walls, and reimagines, in their place, a complete and total restoration, therefore redemption, of who we are, and of who we are in desperate need of becoming.Brandon Shimoda, author of The Grave on the Wall
Millers latest book is a personal, wide-ranging, and impassioned call for abolishing borders.John Washington, author of The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond
Through careful reporting and vivid personal experience, Miller illuminates the immediate need to bring people closer in an era of dehumanizing violence that is at the heart of U.S. political discourse and institutions and which has become painfully condensed in the Trump years.Oswaldo Zavala, journalist and professor of Latin American literature and culture at the City University of New York and author of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking and Culture in Mexico
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Praise for Build Bridges, Not Walls
As more and more millions are forced to migrate to survive, and as militarized borders disfigure an ever-increasing portion of the Earths surface, Todd Millers analysis and reporting have become essential to understanding both the world in which we live and the one for which we have to fight. In Build Bridges, Not Walls, Miller writes with poetry, unfailing critical intelligence, and most of all with heart. He cuts through the facile media myths and escapes the paralyzing constraints of a political debate that functions mainly to obscure the unconscionable inequalities that borders everywhere secure. In its soulfulness, its profound moral imagination, and its vision of radical solidarity, Todd Millers work is as indispensable as the love that so palpably guides it.
Ben Ehrenreich, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
Todd Miller lays bare the senselessness and soullessness of the nation-state and its borders and border walls, and reimagines, in their place, a complete and total restoration, therefore redemption, of who we are, and of who we are in desperate need of becoming.
Brandon Shimoda, author of The Grave on the Wall
All of Todd Millers work is essential reading, but Build Bridges, Not Walls is his most compelling, insightful book yet. Millers storytelling is woven together with his rigorous research on the inner workings of border control systems and how they worsen the concentration of global wealth and the suffering caused by climate change. Build Bridges, Not Walls makes a convincing argument for border abolition that builds on the police and prison abolition movements insights, helping us see that the plans to make border enforcement more fair are shams, and that imagining and creating a world without borders is entirely possible.
Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Based on years of work as a journalist and his engagements with migrants, Miller calls us to see how borders subject millions of people to violence, dehumanization, and early death. More important, he highlights the urgent necessity to abolish not only borders, but the nation-state itself. Drawing on the work of abolitionist movement leaders, this book points toward the radical opening of the imagination urgently needed to transform walls into bridges.
A. Naomi Paik, author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
Todd Miller and his four-year-old son William invite us to imagine future bicycles and playgrounds where we now see the steel bollards of border walls. Drawing on years of reporting and the work of scholars, thinkers, and activists from around the worldsuch as Bayo Akomolafes concepts of fugitive spirit and modest criminalityMiller builds a case for imagining the seemingly impractical, the supposedly impossible idea of a living in a world without borders, and without the states that so desperately, and so violently, cling to them.
John Gibler, author of Torn from the World: A Guerrillas Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico
By documenting the human toll of border walls, expanded security, and racialized policing, Miller makes the urgent case to abolish borders now.
Reece Jones, author of White Borders
Todd Millers Build Bridges, Not Walls is an eloquent and urgent call to dismantle the narrative of border security, denouncing this sinister concept not as a policy seeking to protect the general population, but rather as an apparatus to enforce extreme inequalities and power imbalances. Through careful reporting and vivid personal experience, Miller illuminates the immediate need to bring people closer in an era of dehumanizing violence that is at the heart of U.S. political discourse and institutions.
Oswaldo Zavala, journalist and professor of Latin American literature and culture at the City University of New York and author of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking and
Culture in Mexico
Todd Millers deeply reported, empathetic writing on the American border is some of the most essential journalism being done in America today. Its impossible to read his work without coming away changed.
Adam Conover, creator and host of Adam Ruins Everything
Praise for Storming The Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
RECIPIENT OF THE 2018 IZZY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Every so often a book comes along that can dramatically change, or elevate, ones thinking about a global problem. Much like Naomi Kleins books, Todd Millers Storming the Wall is such a book and deserves far more attention and discussion.
Izzy Award Judges, Ithaca College
A galvanizing forecast of global warmings endgame and a powerful indictment of Americas current stance.
Kirkus Reviews
Nothing will test human institutions like climate change in this centuryas this book makes crystal clear, people on the move from rising waters, spreading deserts, and endless storms could profoundly destabilize our civilizations unless we seize the chance to reimagine our relationships to each other. This is no drill, but it is a test, and it will be graded pass-fail.
Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Copyright 2021 by Todd Miller
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Open Media Series Editor: Greg Ruggiero
Cover design by Victor Mingovits
ISBN: 978-0-87286-834-2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Miller, Todd, 1970 author.
Title: Build bridges, not walls / by Todd Miller.
Description: San Francisco : City Lights Books, 2021. |
Series: Open media series
Identifiers: LCCN 2020040807 (print) | LCCN 2020040808 (ebook) | ISBN 9780872868342 (paperback) | ISBN 9780872868366 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: United StatesEmigration and immigrationGovernment policy. | MexicoEmigration and immigration. | Central AmericaEmigration and immigration. | Illegal aliensUnited StatesSocial conditions. | ImmigrantsUnited StatesSocial conditions. | Mexican-American Border RegionSocial conditions.
Classification: LCC JV6483 .M559 2021 (print) | LCC JV6483 (ebook) | DDC 325.73dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020040807
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020040808
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A Journey to a World Without Borders
TODD MILLER
CITY LIGHTS BOOKS | Open Media Series
SAN FRANCISCO
For Sofia and William, and the future generations you represent.
ILLUSTRATIONS
CONTENTS
Sube a nacer conmigo, hermano.
Pablo Neruda, Canto XII
BUILD BRIDGES, NOT WALLS
ONE
FROM THE BROKEN PIECES
The hand between the candle and the wall
Grows large on the wall
It must be that the hand
Has a will to grow larger on the wall
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