[-empyre-] Chicana Gang of Coyotecks - Today’s viral report on the Transborder Immigrant Tool

Sat Nov 21 07:06:45 EST 2009

Today’s viral report on the Transborder Immigrant Tool.

What the viral echo’s have taught us about the hactivating the redesign
for the
next level of the project: from now on bang.lab/EDT will now call our
selves –
a Chicana Gang of Coyotecks!!

(a thought from our research poet).

The strain is spreading - a short guide:

Last Updated: Tue, 11/17/2009 - 3:59pm
An activist Chicano professor at a taxpayer-funded university has created
special technology to help Mexicans enter the United States illegally by
mapping the safest routes through the notoriously rigorous southern border
desert
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/nov/u-s-prof-maps-out-safe-routes-mexicans-heading-north

Phone apps for illegal immigrants
Foreign Policy - &#8206;Nov 17, 2009&#8206;
Tue, 11/17/2009 - 7:45am
 I can only guess what Bill O'Reilly has to say about this. Probably,
something along the lines of "Ban all phones!"

http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/11/17/phone_apps_for_illegal_immigrants

A GLOBAL POETIC POSITIONING SYSTEM
BY NEZUA. WRITTEN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH, 2009 10:44 AM
ART, ACTIVISM, AND TECHNOLOGY MAESTROS will wield the paintbrushes that
splash a poetic hue of dawn over the cracking and flaking façades of
injustice that today, stand, smoking, hulking, and hovering over la tierra
y nuestra primavera!

http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2009/11/18/a-global-poetic-positioning-system/

WEDNESDAY, 18 NOVEMBER 2009
Crossing Borders - Technology From Both Sides
http://nobordersbrighton.blogspot.com/2009/11/crossing-borders-technology-from-both.html

NEWSru.com
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Transborder Immigrant Tool
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Flüchtlings-Hilfe mit GPS
taz - &#8206;10 hours ago&#8206;
Das "Transborder Immigrant Tool" soll demnächst illegalen Einwanderern das
Passieren der Grenze zwischen den USA und Mexiko erleichtern - und sich
auf jedes ...
O Globo Aplicativo móvel aponta melhores rotas para imigrantes ilegais que
vão do ...
O Globo - &#8206;Nov 17, 2009&#8206;
Para ajudar essas pessoas a enfrentar as intempéries do deserto, um grupo
de ativistas criou a "Transborder Immigrant Tool", um aplicativo que
mapeia as ...

November 20, 2009 9:26 AM
New GPS tool will help immigrants cross border
BY CINDY CARCAMO
The Orange County Register
http://www.ocregister.com/news/border-220422-people-desert.html

Some Tweet stats:
http://topsy.com/tb/www.viceland.com/int/v16n11/htdocs/follow-the-gps-225.php

Abrazos,
Chicana Gang of Coyotecks!

-- 
Ricardo Dominguez
Associate Professor
Hellman Fellow

Visual Arts Department, UCSD
http://visarts.ucsd.edu/
Principal Investigator, CALIT2
http://calit2.net
Co-Chair gallery at calit2
http://gallery.calit2.net
CRCA Researcher
http://crca.ucsd.edu/
Ethnic Studies Affiliate
http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/
Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Affiliate
http://cilas.ucsd.edu

Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics,
Board Member
http://hemi.nyu.edu

University of California, San Diego,
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La Jolla, CA 92093-0436
Phone: (619) 322-7571
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