{"product_id":"build-bridges-not-walls-9780872868342","title":"Build Bridges, Not Walls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival?\u003cem\u003e Build Bridges, Not Walls\u003c\/em\u003e is an inspiring, impassioned call to envision—and work toward—a bold new reality.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 Miller’s work is as indispensable as the love that so palpably guides it.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eBen Ehrenreich\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eDesert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eNick Estes\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eOur History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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. Miller's instinct is to oblige, but he hesitates: Furthering an unauthorized person’s entrance into the U.S. is a federal crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTodd Miller has been reporting from international border zones for over twenty-five years. In \u003cem\u003eBuild Bridges, Not Walls\u003c\/em\u003e, 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA series of encounters—with climate refugees, members of indigenous communities, border authorities, modern-day abolitionists, scholars, visionaries, and the shape-shifting imagination of his four-year-old son—provoke 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs 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? \u003cem\u003eBuild Bridges, Not Walls\u003c\/em\u003e is an inspiring, impassioned call to envision—and work toward—a bold new reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eBuild Bridges, Not Walls:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Todd Miller’s 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. It’s impossible to read his work without coming away changed.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Adam Conover\u003c\/strong\u003e, creator and host of \u003cem\u003eAdam Ruins Everything\u003c\/em\u003e and host of \u003cem\u003eFactually!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"All of Todd Miller's work is essential reading, but \u003cem\u003eBuild Bridges, Not Walls\u003c\/em\u003e is his most compelling, insightful work yet.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crises (And the Next)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eA. Naomi Paik\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBans, Walls Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eNick Estes\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eOur History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eBrandon Shimoda\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Grave on the Wall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Miller's latest book is a personal, wide-ranging, and impassioned call for abolishing borders.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Washington\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eOswaldo Zavala\u003c\/strong\u003e, journalist and professor of Latin American literature and culture at the City University of New York and author of \u003cem\u003eDrug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking and Culture in Mexico\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Todd Miller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42981608718454,"sku":"9780872868342","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_fe1cab10-bc8a-474f-8691-89e597ea0eb1.jpg?v=1768584612","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/build-bridges-not-walls-9780872868342","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}