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 envision-and work toward-a 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 Miller's 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. Miller's instinct is to oblige,
but he hesitates: Furthering an unauthorized person's 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 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. 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 envision-and work toward-a bold
new reality. Praise for Build Bridges, Not Walls: "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."-Adam Conover, creator and host
of Adam Ruins Everything and host of Factually! "All of Todd
Miller's 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
"Miller's 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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