Creating space for innovation, rest, and resilience
Our VIVX leadership team are at a residency in Woodstock, NY, asylum seekers speaking out against the "remain in Mexico" policy, and we celebrate filmmakers in the Skylight network. ...
11 May
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22 Sep
What does building a human rights movement look like?
“It’s not about immigrant rights, it’s about human rights. We are all human.” So began a transformative weekend of leadership training by Gabriela Castañeda of the Movement for Immigrant Rights in Pennsylvania (MILPA), part of our upcoming documentary film Borderland. The core idea at the...
21 Sep
GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION IS CAUSING FORCED MIGRATION
The U.S. government must urgently prioritize the fight against corruption and assume the consequences Originally published in El Periodico on September 4, 2021 One of the objectives of Joe Biden's administration is to reduce migration and try to stop the unstoppable waves of migrants leaving Guatemala and other Central...
07 Apr
Immigration Lawyer Carlos Spector Declares Asylum Case of Maya-Ixil Human Rights Defenders “The Most Significant I’ve Ever Had”
We share the latest developments in the asylum case for Francisco Chávez and Gaspar Cobo, whom we are following as part of our feature film BORDERLAND....
22 Feb
Skylight Sues Customs and Border Protection to Release Records of Militarized Raids on Humanitarian Aid Station
We filed suit after Customs and Border Protection (CBP) failed to respond to a FOIA request for these records....
15 Oct
Skylight Files Freedom of Information Act Request About Border Protection’s Military-Style Raids on Humanitarian Aid Camps
We're requesting, with the American Immigration Council, more info about raids on the organization No More Deaths/No Más Muertes...
19 Jun
JUNETEENTH: HOW THE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENT INTERSECTS WITH THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT
To commemorate Juneteenth, we asked some of the protagonists in BORDERLAND to reflect on how the movement for immigrant rights intersects with the Black Lives Matter Movement....
17 Jun
A YEAR LATER, I AM STILL AWAITING ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES
Gaspar, a Maya-Ixil environmental defender in Guatemala whom we featured in 500 Years, wrote this update about what he’s experienced over the last 12 months and his ongoing case for asylum. ...
29 Jun
“Why do children leave my country?” by Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj
[caption id="attachment_18424" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Melle van Essen / skylight.is[/caption] Why do children leave my country? Originally written by Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj in Spanish and published in ElPeriodico of Guatemala. They leave because they want to break the curse that steals their dreams the moment they...
