Dying to Live

Extensive radio interview campaign, focusing on the immigration debate. Nationwide galley-mailing, with special emphasis on the Southwest--the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, Phoenix New Times, Tucson Weekly, and other major papers in the region. We'll also send to art/photo publications. Aggressive web, list-serve campaign, to Chicano lists and sites, political sites and more. Ideally, we'd like to plan an exhibition tour of the photographs, or at least have a slideshow event with commentary by authors. Authors live in NY, so events could be done there, with effort towards getting to the Southwest (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas). Partner with appropriate organizations around the country that work on immigrant rights issues. Connect with MECHA--Chicano student organizations at various campuses. Planning to have photos on the City Lights web site as an enticement.

The real story--and human price--of US/Mexico border enforcement.Praise for A Not-So-Distant Horror: "[A] remarkable book."-Noam Chomsky Told through the life story of a young man who perished in the California desert, Dying to Live is a compelling account of US immigration/border enforcement and the rapidly growing death toll among migrants. Stunning photos by Mizue Aizeki complement the text. Joseph Nevins authored Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the Illegal Alien and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge, 2002), and A Not-So-Distant Horror (Cornell, 2005). His writings have appeared in the Boston Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and the International Herald Tribune.