"Residents across party lines say Trump’s proposed wall threatens their homes, livelihoods and wilderness along the Rio Grande"
"Last February, 41-year-old Molly Walker posted an Instagram story: a photo of herself standing in the desert, sunglasses hooked over the front of her shirt, jeans slung low beneath her exposed midriff. She held a protest sign fashioned from a pizza box, a hand-drawn heart framing the words “Border Cultura”, with “NO WALL” scrawled beneath.
The text over the photo included a call to action: “… if you want to organize, DM me.”
Born and raised in the Big Bend region of far-west Texas, Walker had no idea that a single social media post would help ignite one of the most surprising bipartisan grassroots campaigns in recent US history.
“The five people who responded to that photo,” Walker says, “with their various skill sets, I thought, ‘Wait … we can actually do something. Let’s try to do something!’”
Walker and a handful of other committed residents have since paused their careers, dedicating themselves full-time to a campaign they call No Big Bend Wall (NBBW). The proposed border wall, they argue, threatens their home, their livelihoods and the wilderness along the Rio Grande corridor."
