Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear, and Everyday LIfe in Ciudad Juárez

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Wooden crosses precariously stand in memory of the eight young women whose bodies were found mutilated in November 2001 in this same cottonfield at the Ejército Nacional and Paseo de la Victoria intersection in Ciudad Juárez. In February 2007, workers started cleaning the field. (Leonel Monroy Jr.) American film stars join Mexican film actresses during a rally in Ciudad Juárez at Plaza Benito Juárez, where the V-Day 2004 cross-border march ended. (Leonel Monroy Jr.) “Disappeared. Help Us Find Her,” reads one of the signs held by relatives of missing women during the Stop the Femicide March for Justice on December 3, 2005, from Armijo Park in El Paso to the Ciudad Juárez side of Paso del Norte International Bridge. (Leonel Monroy Jr.) Rally in Ciudad Juárez at Plaza Benito Juárez, where the V-Day 2004 cross-border march ended. (Leonel Monroy Jr.) Activist Rosa Elena, dressed as the Grim Reaper, and dozens of fellow protesters march from the Plaza Benito Juárez to downtown Ciudad Juárez on November 25, 2000. (Leonel Monroy Jr.) Tattered poster depicting a young girl crying reads: “In a present [time] of horror, your silence and fear consent to a future of impunity.” (Kathleen Staudt) A Home without Violence booklet published in 2001 by the Instituto Nacional para la Educación de los Adultos. (National Adult Education Institute) Drawings and words of workshop participants in Ciudad Juárez illustrate problems that contribute to violence against women (left), what women can do—“Value ourselves!!!” (center), and alternatives to violence such as “inner strength” and “communication!” (right). V-Day 2004 at the Border. (Alexis Garibay) ...