No Borders Camp. Who are the terrorists, here?

Last week, my daughter was at the No Borders Camp at Calexico, at the Mexican border. As they have at walls around the world, our kids met to celebrate the fall of the Berlin wall and share their ideal world: one in which no person is illegal, in which love prevails, in which we need no walls to wall people in or out.


They threw food over the wall and kissed through the wall. They cried shame to the border police and their weapons and hate-contorted faces. They danced and banged on drums, made music and art. For most of the “action” everything was quiet, even though it was tense to be surrounded by armed police and their vehicles, and sleeping under their kleig lights. Then, at the last moment, 100 police brutally attacked a group of about 30 kids, ganging up on them, beating them with heavy sticks and shooting them at close range with their pellet weapons.

Three young men were severely beaten and arrested, and ironically, charged with attacking the heavily armed federal officers. Please go to the No Borders Camp website to see video of the attack as well as scenes from the peaceful week of action. Although the No Borders Camp has met at other locations around the world, here in the United States is the first place they were attacked by representatives of the national government.