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Featuring a critical essay on border surveillance by Cielo Saucedo, a brilliant artist, access worker, and comrade of mine. Saucedo recounts their experience hiking across migratory routes in the San Ysidro Mountains with the Borderlands Relief Collective:

"I met members of the Borderlands Relief Collective (BRC) at a queer punk house in Tijuana’s Zona Central, blocks from the US–Mexico border... The BRC is an autonomous group that distributes humanitarian aid in the San Ysidro Mountains that surround the Tijuana–San Diego metropolitan area. They operate within a network of coconspirators who support migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers pushed ever deeper into the steep terrain of Otay Mountain that swallows life and dignity; tactics central to Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) 1994 policy of Prevention Through Deterrence. The scope of BRC’s work has expanded to document the rise of technologies that surveil migratory routes across Kumeyaay land. After looking through zines, as you share in places like Enclave Caracol, members offered to take me along on one of their hikes a few months later."

The final PhD student for whom I will act as lead supervisor is scheduled to finish this month.  I have graduated forty PhD students since I was appointed a lecturer in 1985.  I am still in touch with many of them – they are divided between industry and universities with a bias towards industry (about 60%).  For the first twenty years, I was a sole academic supervisor often with an industrial…