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EVERY SINGLE place mentioned in the Mountain Goats’ album All Hail West Texas, in chronological order.
West Texas
Denton
Japan
Ireland
Dallas
Fort Worth
Taipei
Zimbabwe
Georgia (the country)
Saint Louis
Paris
Las Vegas
Russia
Belgium
England
Italy
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Provo
Utah
New Orleans
Manhattan (and New York City)
Toyahvale
Pecos
Red Bluff
New Mexico
Midland
Los Angeles
Albuquerque
Dealey Plaza
Austin
Bangkok
Texas (in general)
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cerutcem · 6 months
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guys guys. water tower’s “head east, head north by northeast” versus jeff davis county blues’ “after three nights in jail, i head north from toyahvale.” thoughts?
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teddykaczynski · 7 months
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ooooh…. after three nughts in jail… i head north from toyahvale. switch to 285 in pecos, head up to red bluff. myyyy walks real steady and my eyes are real cold but i feeeel like im all of 16 years old. Lost in the travelodge with the television on with the sound down. i dont feeel so tough.
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old issues of sunset magazine. to read. sleeep for 12 hourrs, dream about home.
yeah…
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moteldogs · 5 months
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after three nights in jail I head north from toyahvale switch to 285 in pecos head up to red bluff. my walk's real steady and my eyes are real cold but I feel like I'm all of sixteen years old lost in a travelodge with the television on with the sound down I don't feel so tough. old issues of sunset magazine to read sleep for twelve hours dream about home. btw
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eazy-group · 10 months
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Go ‘Wild Swimming’ in One of These 7 Spots in Texas
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Go ‘Wild Swimming’ in One of These 7 Spots in Texas
There’s nothing better than a swim in nature to help revitalize the senses. Whether you’re traveling through Texas or planning an epic camping trip to the Lone Star State, a quick dip in a natural swimming hole is always a great way to stay cool.
From the deserts of western Texas to the gorgeous landscapes of Texas Hill Country, there are crystal-clear waters to discover across the state, but is open-water swimming in Texas safe? The answer is yes if you know where to go. 
We’ve compiled a list of options for “wild swimming” in places that are privately owned or located within a Texas State Park, so you can swim peacefully knowing the areas are well monitored and maintained.
Here are seven of the best natural swimming holes in Texas:
1. Blue Hole Regional Park, Wimberley, Texas
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Discover one of Texas’s most-loved natural swimming spots: The Blue Hole. From May to September, the Blue Hole Regional Park invites visitors to swim in the see-through blue-green waters, swing from rope swings, and experience true relaxation. With cypress trees looming all around, the water is spring-fed and stays at a refreshing temperature all summer long, making it an awesome place to cool off. There are biking and hiking trails to enjoy around the park too.
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The small ranch town of Wimberley boasts an excellent restaurant and bar scene, as well as a weekly Saturday market.  
2. Inks Lake State Park, Burnet, Texas
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The Devil’s Waterhole is a favorite among visitors and locals alike. You’ll find it towards the northern end of the Inks Lake State Park in the Texas Hill Country. The surrounding landscape is famous for its fiery sunsets and picturesque beauty. Thanks to the steady flow of the Colorado River, the water in the deep pool at the Devil’s Waterhole is cool and clear and makes for an invigorating dip. It is surrounded by stunning rock formations and smooth, pink granite slabs, making it very popular for rock jumping.
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Explore the town of Burnet, which is famous for its swathes of bluebonnets in the spring.
3. Garner State Park, Uvalde, Texas
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With its deep canyons and imposing cliffs, a road trip to the gorgeous Garner State Park is something Texans have been raving about for years. Within Garner, the sparkling Frio River is lovely, especially on a hot day. There are lots of options for watersports, from kayaking to river tubing. Freshen up and spend evenings dancing the night away at the summer dances—you might even learn to do a Texas line dance!
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There are two cabins to book, or you can pitch a tent at several spots in the area.
4. Balmorhea State Park, Toyahvale, Texas
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Described by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department as a “cool oasis in the high desert,” the Balmorhea State Park in west Texas is home to San Solomon Springs, the largest outdoor pool in the world, measuring almost two acres. Bring your swimming goggles and enjoy gliding through the cool waters, which stay around 72-76 degrees Fahrenheit all year-round. The water is so clear, there are even opportunities to scuba dive and meet resident turtles and catfish. If you ever find yourself road-tripping across the Texas desert, this is a great place to stop.
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Treat yourself to a night in San Solomon Springs Court, a retro-inspired motel.  
5. Lost Maples State Natural Area, Vanderpool, Texas
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Famed for its fall foliage, a visit to Lost Maples between late October to mid-November is well worth it to see the leaves of the mighty bigtooth maple trees change color. There are 10 miles of hiking trails to explore, including a trail to the fascinatingly shaped Monkey Rock.
You’ll come across a pleasant spot to swim beside the Sabinal River campgrounds, where you can wade in for a quick plunge.
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Lost Maples is a designated Dark Sky Park. Book into the Sabinal River Lodge or camp beneath the stars.
6. Guadalupe River, Ingram and Canyon Lake, Texas
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Just a short drive from both Austin and San Antonio, the Guadalupe River flows from Kerr County into the Texas Gulf Coast. Near the Kerr County town of Ingram, Schumacher Crossing is a little dam with several waterfalls flowing into a larger pond, which has become something of a secret swimming spot. Further along at Canyon Lake, the Horseshoe Loop is a fabulous place to enjoy an energizing day of river tubing.
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Discover New Braunfels, a small Texas town with German heritage and a fascinating downtown area to explore.
7. Krause Springs, Spicewood, Texas
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Krause Springs is a beautiful day out, just 30 miles west of Austin. With 115 acres of natural beauty to explore, there is a lagoon for swimming, with waterfalls and rope swings, as well as a man-made swimming pool. All 32 of the springs flow into both swimming areas and out into Lake Travis.
Don’t forget to explore the peaceful Butterfly Garden while you’re visiting the springs, with wind chimes and relaxing sounds leading you through a plethora of exotic plants.
Stay: 
The site is privately owned by the Krause Family and offers camping with 24 RV sites with water and electricity.
Tips for ‘Wild Swimming’ in Texas 
Always research where to swim before taking a dip. Throughout Texas, there can be issues with water quality, bacteria, and wildlife.
To be safe, swim in state parks or designeated state natural areas where the safety of the water is monitored.
Purchase a Texas State Park Pass to enjoy free entry to more than 80 parks for you and the family for a year. The parks also offer great places to camp with several campsites, cabins, and places to park an RV.
Some swimming holes require reservations to control numbers, so check in advance to avoid disappointment.
Bring a backpack with bug spray, water, water shoes, and SPF.   
Have you gone swimming in a natural swimming hole (in Texas or elsewhere)? Tell us your favorite spot(s) in the comments below.
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malaisequotes · 1 year
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“After three nights in jail, I head north from Toyahvale, switch to 285 in Pecos, head up to Red Bluff.”
Jeff Davis County Blues by The Mountain Goats
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andrewsol · 7 years
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Pictured above is elder and leader Xoxi, leader of FWP, member of the El Paso Renewable Energy Board Crystal Arrieta, and elder Grandma B. The Frontera Water Protectors visited Camp Toyahvale at Pemanxoje or Toyahvale, Tex, a camp to learn to live with the land and Protect the water. The first Native College in Texas. Just outside of the gorgeous Balmorhea Lake, and above a natural water supply of artesian water that will be ruined by fracking (hydraulic fracturing.) We are joining Sacred Stone Camp in the fight against big oil. Stand with us. // For more info, how to volunteer, and where the location exactly is, please visit their Facebook page. Links: ** http://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/12/27/activists-to-open-oil-drilling-protest-camp-near-balmorhea/ https://www.facebook.com/pg/camptoyahvale/about/?ref=page_internal For more info on fracking, please visit: http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking // GASLAND For more info on local El Paso, Texas involvement, please visit: Frontera Water Protection Alliance and Earth Guardians El Paso, TX. ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🌍🌎🌏💦💧 #ElPaso #Texas #Texans #Houston #Toyahvale #LakeBalmorhea #Balmorhea #Texan #ItsAllGoodEP #Fracking #Gasland #noDAPL #noETP #noApacheCorporation #noPipelines #noFracking #SacredStoneCamp #WaterIsLife #AguaEsVida #MniWicnoi #WaterProtectors #ProtectTheSacred #StandWithStandingRock #StandWithCampToyahvale #JoshFox #HydraulicFracturing #EnergyTransferPartners ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🌍🌎🌏💦💧 (en Toyahvale, Texas)
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Jeff Davis County Blues 
After three nights in jail, I head north from Toyahvale Switch to 285 in Pecos, head up to Red Bluff My walk's real steady and my eyes are real cold But I feel like I'm all of sixteen years old Lost in the Travelodge, with the television on with the sound down I don't feel so tough Old issues of Sunset magazine to read Sleep for twelve hours, and dream about home
I have no place to go, so I drive up to New Mexico Fix my eyes in the rearview when I cross the state line And I panic, I guess. and although it's quite late I take the first exit to 128 I am coming back to Midland, I hope you won't mind Polaroids of the two of us scattered on the passenger's seat I drive slowly And evenly And I dream about home
from All Hail West Texas (2002)
"It's a song you may find yourself singing if all hope is gone. And you're like, 'Oh, man, this sucks that all hope is gone. I liked it better when there was hope. Guess it's too late to really be worrying about that now, though, and that's what the whole meaning of the word gone is, isn't it.' And maybe you look it up in a dictionary, but there's just a picture of your motel under that. And you think, 'That's really fucked up.' It's like a movie, and you start looking around for cameras — there's no cameras." 
— 2011-03-28 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
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Monday, September 28
12:15pm
Odometer: 1272 miles
On Hwy. 118 & Hwy. 166, the 75-mile Fort Davis Scenic Loop is easily in the top 5 motorcycle roads in Texas. It has tons of rest stops, vistas, and historic markers through the area nicknamed, "The Texas Alps." The road elevation ranges from 4500 to 6700 feet. This is one of the most iconic drives in Texas because the terrain varies from forested mountain peaks to highland desert. The last photo is Mcdonald Observatory, which is currently closed to visitors due to the pandemic. Not pictured is the world's largest spring fed public swimming pool and rental cabins built by the CCC in 1930 at Balmorhea State Park on Hwy 17 in Toyahvale. Don't miss this world famous art deco oasis in the high desert. And don't forget your snorkel. But if you do, there's a dive shop across the street.
https://mcdonald.utexas.edu/
https://texashighways.com/adventures/postcards-davis-mountains-scenic-loop/
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https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/balmorhea
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Balmorhea State Park to be greatly expanded
Balmorhea State Park to be greatly expanded
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TPWD acquisition will add 643 acres to West Texas park
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Published 8:41 am CDT, Tuesday, June 16, 2020
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Doug Witkowski, from Dripping Springs, prepares to dive into the crystal clear waters of the worlds largest spring-fed swimming pool at Balmorhea State Park Friday, Sept. 16, 2016 four miles west of Balmorhea in Toyahvale,…
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shirlleycoyle · 4 years
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The Most Critical Fight Against Trump’s Border Wall You’ve Never Heard Of
“We’ve been here thousands of years,” said Isidro Leal, a member of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, or Esto’k Gna, as he surveyed the Rio Grande River atop a high bank fortified over the years by piles of concrete and rebar. From this rise, it is more than 70 miles downstream to the Gulf of Mexico, but double or triple that distance if you follow the wild meanderings of the river itself.
It is in these accordion-like bends and folds of the water’s course that the Esto’k Gna, whose ancestral homelands straddle both sides of the river, identify innumerable sacred sites. “A lot of our artifacts are there,” said Leal, “and old village sites.”
Only a few hundred yards to the north is Yalui Village, a resistance camp set up by the Esto’k Gna at the historic Eli Jackson Cemetery. Esto’k Gna tribal members are buried here, as are the descendents of freed slaves, white abolitionists, and veterans of multiple wars. And long before that, “this spot in particular was always a burial ground for us, always sacred land,” Leal said.
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An old irrigation pump sits idle beside the winding Rio Grande less than a mile from Yalui Village.
Yet by siting 25 miles of border wall on top of the river levee abutting the cemetery, the government threatened to “completely destroy” Eli Jackson, said Ramiro Ramirez, a descendant of the cemetery’s original founders. It would also destroy another cemetery and chapel a short walk up the road.
After a few years of dormancy, wall construction is reviving with a privately funded wall near Mission, Texas and a new federal contract for 3 miles of new wall at Rio Grande City.
While the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2020 recently exempted certain natural areas and “historic cemeteries” from wall construction for another fiscal year, Indigenous sites remain threatened in Texas. To “ensure the expeditious construction” of the wall in the Rio Grande Valley, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last fall waived dozens of federal laws, including the American Indian Religious Freedom Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
In opposition, the Esto’k Gna tribe has joined forces with the Ramirezes and other local landowners, reviving ancestral villages along the length of the Rio Grande. Part resistance camps and part decolonial education sites, these villages stand squarely in the pathway of President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall expansion.
'People came and raided us, invaded us. Occupied us. And now we're learning to take all of that back'
Unlike Standing Rock or Wet’suwet’en, the names of Yalui Village, Lehai Village, Mariposa Village, and Camp Toyahvale are largely unknown. And yet these villages are some of the most critical resistance work undertaken in response to the manifold crises converging on South Texas—the border wall, to be sure, but also the fracking, flaring, mining, and pipelining accelerating climate change, and the criminalization of largely Indigenous Central American asylum-seekers and the theft and internment of their children.
“This is the head of the snake,” Carrizo/Comecrudo tribal chairman Juan Mancias said of the region. “Everything is coming this way. If we don't cut the head of the snake off and just continue to break its back every once in a while, it'll heal itself.”
In the shadow of the wall
The Esto’k Gna started setting up villages along the Texas/Mexico border in 2016, amid the thick of the resistance at Standing Rock and during the season of Trump’s election. Starting with a base camp just south of San Antonio called Somi Se’k, the tribe established Camp Toyahvale in far West Texas, where intensive fracking had caused sacred springs to run dry. Cotoname Village followed in 2017 on the Gulf Coast to resist the siting of liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure on Esto’k Gna fishing grounds.
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Camp rules at Yalui Village, where roughly 50 tribal members and allies gathered last summer.
In 2019, three more camps were established along the proposed route for the wall: Mariposa Village on the grounds of the National Butterfly Center, Yalui Village at Eli Jackson Cemetery, and Lehai Village on land adjacent to the privately funded border wall. Others are planned to protect sacred peyote gardens and fight planned LNG pipelines and export terminals in Brownsville.
While the Esto’k Gna maintains the land at all camps year-round, the number of villagers varies. At Yalui, presently in watch-and-wait mode, at least one person is always there tending sacred fire, though the camp can fill on weekends and for specific actions to include dozens of villagers.
Yalui (meaning “butterfly” in Hokom) Village has attracted the most attention for its location at Eli Jackson Cemetery, where the tribe has maintained a constant presence since January 2019. This cemetery is of ancestral significance not only to the Esto’k Gna but to multiple traditions of liberation and resistance. Established by a white former slaveholder from Alabama who married an emancipated slave, the chapel and two family cemeteries were founded after Nathaniel Jackson, Matilda Hicks, and 11 other freed slaves fled Alabama’s Fugitive Slave Act in the 1850s. “Most people were going North,” says Ramiro Ramirez, great-great-grandson of Nathaniel, who founded Eli Jackson Cemetery. “They decided to come South,” where slavery was illegal in Mexico.
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Jackson Ranch Chapel, the oldest Protestant church in the Rio Grande Valley, is threatened by border wall construction.
After arriving in the Rio Grande Valley, however, the group decided not to cross into Mexico, deterred by the prospect of language barriers and that country’s Catholic majority. Instead, they purchased land and in 1874 established the Jackson Ranch Chapel, the first (and now oldest) Protestant church in the Rio Grande Valley. Eventually the area became, according to Ramirez’s wife Melinda, “a really mixed-race community” and ultimately a stop on the Underground Railroad. “There was a cotton trade that would come down,” Melinda explained. “Who was driving the wagons? The slaves. And so they knew exactly how to get through the monte (brush country) and the rattlesnakes and no water, and that was the trail.”
For the Esto’k Gna, the villages resist not only the wall, but the official narrative about Native people in Texas—which too often is that there aren’t any. “People don’t think there’s Natives in Texas,” said Mancias. “That it’s only the federally recognized tribes that need to be dealt with.”
These erasures of Native presence in Texas are rooted in centuries of massacres and missionization at the hands of the Spanish. Starting in the early 16th century, missionaries enslaved Native people for purposes of building Texas’s numerous colonial missions, including those celebrated today in San Antonio as UN World Heritage sites. But the missions also initiated a more insidious form of genocide. As Native people entered the missions, conversion to Catholicism and Spanish names and language fractured tribal identities, hiding original peoples in plain sight.
“It created a rift among our people, because of the missions,” Mancias said.
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Juan Mancias, chair of the Carrizo/Comecrudo tribe in Texas.
Today the Esto’k Gna tribe has 1,600 enrolled members and another 2,000 registered, with many more throughout South Texas as descendants. But “if you talk to present day people,” Mancias said, “a lot of them don't even recognize the fact that they're Native anymore.”
If the threat posed by the border wall to Texas Natives has received far less attention than elsewhere, it’s because “a lot of the tribes (here) have been disenfranchised,” said Leal. “A lot of us didn’t sign treaties, for obvious reasons. Just went into hiding or eventually just sort of disbanded out of the need to survive. Carrizo/Comecrudo is one of them.”
But although the Esto’k Gna lacks either federal or state recognition, this can be an advantage. As Mancias observed, the lure of contracts has led some federally recognized tribes in Texas, such as the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo in El Paso, to bid on contracts to build the border wall. “We’re more sovereign right now,” said Mancias. “We got nothing to lose and everything to gain.”
Eventually, Mancias hopes the villages can be developed into centers for decolonial education, even building a university with an Indigenous curriculum. “We’ll teach math, reading, writing and stuff, but at the same time, we want to talk about colonization… that we’re on the verge of destroying the only planet that can hold our life forms. And talk about that kind of science, rather than the science they want to proclaim about controlling the petroleum and pushing their racism on us.”
These are villages
Both the Esto’k Gna and the Ramirez family at Eli Jackson Cemetery are watching to see what develops next. Last March, the legal firm Earthjustice filed suit against the federal government on behalf of six plaintiffs affected by the government’s plans, including the Ramirezes and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas. Currently in federal court, the suit alleges that Trump’s attempt to divert funds to the border wall without Congressional authorization, on the pretext of a national emergency, is unconstitutional.
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Melinda and Ramiro Roberto Ramirez, owners of historic cemeteries and a chapel in the path of the border wall.
In the meantime, the Ramirezes won a small concession after two lobbying trips to D.C. that resulted in all “historic cemeteries” being exempted from wall construction. So, Melinda, said, “we’re safe for a year.”
After that, Simmons said, “We gotta go through it all over again in September, when they’re ready to submit the new budget.”
Meanwhile, an anti-migrant group operating as We Build the Wall has started construction on a crowdfunded border wall nearby, right next to the National Butterfly Center. “So we’re still occupying out there,” Simmons said. “We’re still watching and monitoring everything out there. And we’re making sure that things don’t happen because they think we all went home and we’re not paying attention.”
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Isidro Leal overlooking the Rio Grande.
For many at Yalui Village, the issue is deeper than the wall’s route and the wall; it’s the border itself. “The idea of borders is a colonizer idea,” said Leal. “That's something that came from Spain. For us that wasn't really a thing. We mostly traveled wherever we wanted.”
For that reason, the Esto’k Gna is forming alliances with the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona, another binational, borderlands tribe 1,200 miles upriver who recently decried the wall’s blasting of burial sites at a Washington, D.C. hearing. The Tohono O’odham is “fighting (the wall) really strong,” said Mancias. “We’re working on setting up a coalition of tribes along the Rio Grande.”
Above all, Mancias wants people to recognize “that there’s camps here. There are villages. This is where the creator put us at this time, to protect that. And we were overcome, we were raided, completely. People came and raided us, invaded us. Occupied us. And now we’re learning to take all of that back. And say, ‘Hey, you gotta grow up. There’s an injustice and you have been a part of it.’ Especially in Texas.”
Marisol Cortez is a writer, scholar, and organizer around a variety of environmental justice issues in her home community of San Antonio, Texas.
Greg Harman is a San Antonio-based environmental organizer. Follow him on Twitter.
Both are co-editors of the online journal Deceleration.news.
Have a story for Tipping Point? Email [email protected]
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The Mountain Goats - Jeff Davis County Blues
After three nights in jail, I head north from Toyahvale, switch to 285 in Pecos, head up to Red Bluff.
My walk’s real steady and my eyes are real cold, but I feel like I’m all of sixteen years old.
Lost in the Travelodge with the television on with the sound down, I don’t feel so tough.
Old issues of Sunset magazine to read.
Sleep for twelve hours and dream about home.
I have no place to go, so I drive to New Mexico.
Fix my eyes in the rear-view when I cross the state lines.
And I panic, I guess, and, although it’s quite late, I take the first exit to 128.
I am coming back to Midland, and I hope you won’t mind.
Polaroids of the two of us, scattered on the passenger’s seat.
I drove slowly and evenly. and I dream about home.
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"A drilling rig sits north of the Davis Mountains in Balmorhea. Houston-based Apache Corporation recently announced the discovery of an estimated 15 billion barrels of oil and gas in the area and plans to drill and use hydraulic fracturing on the 350,000 acres surrounding the town. Apache has leased the mineral rights under the town and nearby state park, but has promised not to drill on or under either. While some residents worry that the drilling could affect the spring at the state park and impact tourism, others are excited for the potential economic boom the oil discovery and drilling could bring. ( @michaelciaglo / #HoustonChronicle )" ** Fracking uses 5,000,000 gallons of water a year. It is mixed with over 300+ carcinogenic chemicals and either injected back into the ground and/or left outside to evaporate and/or sprayed into the air. This process has already caused Earthquakes and poisoned thousands upon thousands of environments, people, and animals. For more info, how to volunteer, and where the location exactly is, please visit their Facebook page. Links: ** http://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/12/27/activists-to-open-oil-drilling-protest-camp-near-balmorhea/ https://www.facebook.com/pg/camptoyahvale/about/?ref=page_internal For more info on fracking, please visit: http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking // GASLAND For more info on local El Paso, Texas involvement, please visit: Frontera Water Protection Alliance and Earth Guardians El Paso, TX. ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🌍🌎🌏💦💧 #ElPaso #Texas #Texans #Houston #Toyahvale #LakeBalmorhea #Balmorhea #Texan #ItsAllGoodEP #Fracking #Gasland #noDAPL #noETP #noApacheCorporation #noPipelines #noFracking #SacredStoneCamp #WaterIsLife #AguaEsVida #MniWicnoi #WaterProtectors #ProtectTheSacred #StandWithStandingRock #StandWithCampToyahvale #JoshFox #HydraulicFracturing #EnergyTransferPartners #FronteraWaterProtectors #FronteraWaterProtectionAlliance ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🌍🌎🌏💦💧 (en Toyahvale, Texas)
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