Hi everyone!!! Welcome to "Borderlands", a multi-episode podcast about the US-Mexico migration border policies and their impact on communities, in one of the most militarized, controlled and deadly counties of the border: Pima county, in the State of Arizona. This fourth episode will focus on several civil responses in terms of water, supplies and search and rescue needs. Witnesses of the border brutalities, people living in the borderlands have been mobilized since the end of the 70’s. For the past 40 years, many actors come to the direct aid of people who attempt to cross this border. From demonstration or water and deposits in the desert to rescue operations and links with families searching for a missing loved one, different communities and groups are fighting against the border regime. In the beginning of the 2000’s, deaths and disappearances were rising in the borderlands. Based on the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner statistics of where the bodies of people who tried to cross were found, a group of people decided to put water station in the desert, trying to prevent death. This organization, Humane Borders, placed 48 water stations in the borderlands. Humane border water stations have been placed in the desert, on dirty roads accessible by car. In 2002, a new organization was created, the Tucson Samaritans, in order to drop water deeper in the desert. As the situation for people who tried to cross in the borderlands got worse and worse, in 2004, a coalition of activists set up No More Deaths, to operate on a daily basis in the desert of Sonora. No More Deaths volunteers have been sued for their action on the field. Besides organizations based in Tucson and more broadly in Arizona, you also have several groups of people coming from California every weekends, trying to find people lost in the desert of Sonora. Contacted by families and relatives of people who cross the US Mexico border, those groups with information shared by the relatives look for the missing people. There are several Search and Rescue groups like this: The Aguilas del desierto, Armadillos …. This fourth episode shows us the multiple ways of action in the Sonora desert regarding people who try to cross without authorization, including missing persons. At the origin and at the heart of these actions, you have relatives who fight daily to find their loved ones. Often with no response from the authorities, they organize themselves... Thank you for following “Borderlands” … a multi-episode podcast about the US-Mexico migration border policies and their impact on communities…See you soon… and don’t forget: this episode was mixed by Nicolas Puissant. Speakers of Episode #4: Isabel Garcia, La Coalicion de derechos humanos Rebecca Fowler, administrator of Humane Borders Gail Kocourek, in charge of media and education for the Tucson Samaritans Parker Deighan, volunteer and coordinator of the No more deaths abuse documentation group Gerardo campos, Paralelo 31/Parallel 31, a search and rescue group Glossary episode #4: GAO: General attorney office Read more episode #4 La Coalicion de derechos humanos : https://derechoshumanosaz.net/ Humane Borders : https://humaneborders.org/ The Tucson Samaritans: http://www.tucsonsamaritans.org/ No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes: https://nomoredeaths.org/en/ Paralelo 31/Parallel 31: https://www.facebook.com/parallel31sar/ Aguilas del desierto: https://aguilasdeldesierto.org/ Armadillos: https://www.niunmigrantemenos.org/ The Batallion Search and Rescue: https://battalionsar.com/ The teaser of “Borderlands” podcast available (2’30): https://soundcloud.com/eva-ottavy/borderlands-podcast-teaser Credits: Borderlands is a podcast by Eva Ottavy, mixed by Nicolas Puissant. Music: Dusty Sun by Serj Anto. Graphic Identity by Eva Ottavy (Borderlands brewery’s front in Tucson-Arizona and “Chinche al agua”, a mural painting of Victor “Mask” Casas in El Paso-Texas)