In this episode, journalist **Candice Bernd** returns to the *Green and Red Podcast* to discuss **Trump’s proposed border wall in Big Bend, Texas, and the Indigenous groups and other communities fighting to stop it**.
We explore the environmental, cultural, and political consequences of the proposed border wall, as well as the resistance to expanding border infrastructure in the Big Bend region.
Guest Bio
**Candice Bernd** (@candicequestions.com) is a special investigative correspondent for the *Observer*, where she covers the climate and ecological crises. She is a freelance journalist based in Austin, Texas, whose work has also appeared in *The Nation, The American Prospect, In These Times, Salon, Truthout,* and *Earth Island Journal*.
Her journalism has received awards from the **San Francisco Press Club, the Fort Worth chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association,** and the **Dallas Peace and Justice Center**.
She is the author of the forthcoming book *Blood, Soil, and Oil: Far-Right Acceleration in the Age of Climate Crisis*.
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