Ten Years of Opening Borders: The Journey of the 'Caravana Abriendo Fronteras'

• 'Caravana Abriendo Fronteras' (Opening Borders Caravan) celebrates its tenth anniversary of denouncing border deaths, militarization, institutional racism, and violence against migrant women.
• The collective works to maintain the memory of those lost at borders and challenges the restrictive migration policies of wealthy nations.

Memorializing and Advocacy

• The group utilizes a "Memory Blanket," featuring the names of those who died or disappeared while crossing borders embroidered in red thread, as a tool for political resistance.
• By placing flowers on border fences, participants aim to break the impunity surrounding border deaths and force the public to confront the violent reality of these boundaries.

Critique of Migration Policies

• Border policies are characterized as organized violence designed to make the lives of people in transit as difficult as possible to deter migration.
• Migrants are often forced to move due to factors like climate change and resource extraction, while natural resources move across borders freely, unlike human beings.

Building Community and Resistance

• The Caravan creates alternative spaces where participants share food, knowledge, and daily chores, fostering a sense of commonality that defies typical nationalistic and exclusionary narratives.
• Constructing a "safe place" for migrants is described as an act of disobedience against unjust laws and a commitment to maintaining the memory of those who did not survive the journey.
• Activists emphasize that while change seems difficult, historical social movements have often been driven by small, committed groups who refuse to accept the word 'impossible.'