Common Borders Zine

07/11/2021

This poem is dedicated for our next issue of Fronteras but Matthew Brinton, author, said it was ok to post early on Facebook. We really love this one!

“Healing Mercy”

By Matthew Brinton

I saw a woman in obvious pain - physical, emotional, spiritual

Maybe it was the result of her sin that got her into big trouble

Trapped inside her own personal hell - the bars impenetrable

My eyes were buried in a book - the topic: mercy

I looked up and saw the object of God’s mercy

Is God calling me to be a mercy missionary

To a desperate soul such as she?

Is it enough to have mercy in my heart,

With no mercy in my steps?

Mercy in my eyes,

With lazy drooping hands?

Yet, it’s those who have received

That are most indebted to give

But not under the compulsion of the guilt-trip

But freely

Like a river flowing

The water not meriting its forward momentum

But bending, eroding stale-hearted shores

Of souls that are destined to freshen, blossom

( he shared w me this am: would love to publish in Fronteras again!:)

07/09/2021

Fronteras Comunes, a project of Manos Unidas, is a Berkshire, MA bi-lingual social justice art magazine - a platform for movement building & people powered ini

03/03/2021

Mientras nos preparamos para lanzar la edición de Despertares / Awakening invierno / primavera de 2021, estábamos revisando nuestras revistas más antiguas. ¿Qué tal esta edición solidaria de 2015?

As we prepare to release the Despertares/Awakening winter/spring 2021 issue we were reviewing our older zine's. How about this Solidarity Issue from 2015?

https://e96f4013-ce3f-427b-a45c-e087276b201e.filesusr.com/ugd/5f6772_de9d265a772749ebbd988b4c40dbdcc3.pdf

02/11/2021

Fronteras Comunes imprimirá su próxima edición, Awakenings, a finales de febrero. ¡Seguimos aceptando artículos, poesía y arte!

¡También queremos extender una invitación a los anunciantes con nuestro kit de bienvenida de AD adjunto aquí! ¡Haga clic en el enlace de la edición anterior en el boletín para conocer el trabajo periodístico del colectivo del equipo Fronteras Comunes!

Los anunciantes representan la mitad de los ingresos que apoyan a este colectivo en la producción de contenido bilingüe de justicia social. El colectivo también utiliza la educación popular para compartir habilidades en las áreas de traducción de idiomas, edición, diseño, marketing y redacción, lo que ha sido un poderoso impulso de Fronteras, que comenzó como el primer Berkshire Zine bilingüe en 2011.

Fronteras también se beneficia del apoyo continuo del Fondo Markham-Nathan para la Justicia Social que apoya a las organizaciones comunitarias de base en las fronteras de la lucha contra las causas fundamentales de la injusticia y la pobreza. Visite su sitio para conocer más sobre ellos y su increíble trabajo apoyando organizaciones de base. aquí en Western MA.

https://www.markhamnathanfund.org/news/

Manos Unidas Multicultural Educational Cooperative Fronteras Comunes A Bi-lingual Berkshire Social Justice/Art Zine Dear Advertiser/Partner, Thank you for supporting our work! Fronteras Comunes/Common Borders is a quarterly bilingual zine with approximately 3,000 person distribution for e...

12/25/2020

Feliz Navidad! Designed for us by Argentinian digital artist, Matchi!

11/29/2020

As we prepare for the publication of a winter publication of Fronteras Comunes Bi-lingual Zine entitled Despertares/Awakenings, we invite our community to submit art, poetry, and articles that tell us a story about your awakenings in 2020. The community art challenge for the front art for Despertares is still open with a prize of $200!
The Deperatares cover shown above is a mock cover!

For those submitting art but who do not make the cover, no worries! We will have a two page color spread inside! Stipends awarded to writers and artists alike. Submissions being accepted until January 15th.

Fronteras Comunes/Common Borders is:
>the first bilingual and multicultural newspaper in the Berkshires
> the only cooperatively run paper in the Berkshires
>the first newspaper in the Berkshires to train and teach low income community members how to create their own media
> a place to learn about issues often forgotten in common media
> a source for cultural connection and understanding
> a place to learn about community sustainability
> a place to gather needed multicultural information
> a place to promote businesses who support and wish a diverse customer base

Almost ten years ago, Manos Unidas Multicultural Educational Cooperative set out to create the first ever bilingual Multicultural People's newspaper, a hopeful small business cooperative now run as a not for profit collective in the Berkshire region. In fact, Fronteras Comunes has become a vibrant place to access bilingual information and inform ourselves of our growing community, and a vehicle for community transformation on many levels.

Fronteras Comunes/Common Borders is a quarterly bilingual zine with approximately 3,000 person distribution for each issue printed bi-annually. It is also printed on-line on an international platform - issue.com. The coverage area for printed copies is throughout the Berkshire region, ranging from Canaan, CT to the Vermont border.

Please join us in creating a more understanding and diverse Berkshire community while supporting our most under- heard peoples. Create art, write an article, or advertise with us hoy mismo/today!

Anaelisa Vanegas and the Fronteras Comunes Bilingual Zine Cooperative
Contact: [email protected] for Spanish communication, [email protected] and [email protected] for english communication, (413)-243-9121
http://manos-unidas.wix.com/manos-unidas-

11/26/2020

¡Algunos recuerdos pasados de nuestro equipo y portadas de Fronteras Comunes!

Some past memories of our Fronteras Comunes team and covers!

11/18/2020

Karlisima, una increíble artista salvadoreña, contribuyó con su arte a uno de nuestros números anteriores de Fronteras Comunes. ¡Esta misma pieza fue dedicada y entregada como regalo al presidente Obama! Puede visitar a Karlisima y apoyar su trabajo en www.karlisima.com. Mientras nos preparamos para nuestro número de febrero, Despertares / Awakenings, damos la bienvenida a los artistas, poetas y escritores que contribuyen a que reflexionen sobre las formas en que han despertado en 2020.

Karlisima, an amazing Salvadorian artist, contributed her art to one of our previous Fronteras Comunes issues. This same piece was dedicated and given as a gift to President Obama! You can visit Karlisima and support her work at www.karlisima.com. As we prepare for our February Issue, Despertares/Awakenings, we welcome contributing artists, poets, and writers as they reflect on the ways they’ve awakened in 2020!

Email Carlos at [email protected] to submit in Spanish or Nicole at [email protected] to submit content in English!!

11/18/2020

Qué hermoso poema nos regalaron para nuestra edición Fronteras 2015. ¡Surgió en mis recuerdos y me encantó volver a leerlo! Ahora nos preparamos para nuestra edición de invierno de 2021, Despertares / Awakenings. ¡Bienvenidos poetas y artistas contribuyentes!

What a beautiful poem gifted to us for our Fronteras 2015 Issue. It came up in my memories and I loved re-reading it! Now we prepare for our Winter 2021 Issue, Despertares/Awakenings. Contributing Poets and Artists welcome!

Email Carlos at [email protected] to submit content in Spanish & Nicole at [email protected] to submit content in English.

This poem was contributed by Rosemary Starace for our 2015 next issue of Fronterascomunes Commonborders. Loved re-reading it!

A Cloister View

In Baghdad and in Baltimore,
see old mothers crying, and stone fathers
carrying limp sons to the grave.

And good people everywhere—weeping,
or being urbane. Along the rivers daily
they dally with their washing.

In Washington, Jerusalem, Beirut, and Rome,
hear big mothers lying; they’re grinding
even words to stones.

All the people here, and there, who know,
who know. Bless them. I’ve
been tumbled like a river stone

out of the big world, for a long time.
What a small response I am,
a shudder of shoulders, a cradle of hands.

(First appeared in "100 Thousand Poets for Change”)

Rosemary Starace
Writing, Painting
Northern Light
The Threshold View

11/16/2019

We are working to support legislation currently before the Massachusetts State Legislature that will benefit Indigenous Peoples.

10/04/2016

Harvest of Hope Festival was featured on the front cover of Sunday's Berkshire Eagle! Such a great article!

PITTSFIELD >> An Eagle reporter scanned the Pittsfield Common on Saturday afternoon, looking for a story at the first Harvest of Hope Festival.