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Bill Moyers: Life on the Border

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Posted on May 7, 2012

Bill Moyers begins his latest show by saying, “There is no stretch of territory in the world quite like the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. ... ” And he’s right.

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By EmileZ, May 8, 2012 at 12:54 am Link to this comment

Yup, this was a good one.

It is so heartbreaking, tragic, and outrageously fucked up that these (Latin American and African American studies) programs are being banned.

They are so, so very important.

We are so, so much lesser as a society in their absence.

Anything to keep Americans from even getting a clue I suppose.

We don’t wan’t to know. We musn’t know. “They” musn’t be allowed to discuss it.

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By THX 1133 is not in the movie..., May 8, 2012 at 12:04 am Link to this comment

Moyer’s at his best: This was a riveting interview with
Luis Alberto Urrea.
Normally I play solitaire while listening; not this
time.
I stayed glued to the screen. There’s just something in
the way Urrea speaks that struck me through and
through.

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