A group of activist engineers built seesaws through the U.S. southern border wall, allowing American and Mexican kids (and adults) to play together.
What we see in the video is so pure and simple. Kids are just playing with one another, even as the physical border between their countries separates them. Rael wrote in the caption that the project means so much symbolically.
“The wall became a literal fulcrum for U.S.-Mexico relations and children and adults were connected in meaningful ways on both sides with the recognition that the actions that take place on one side have a direct consequence on the other side,” he wrote. Rael and San Jose State design associate professor Virginia San Fratello first thought of the idea to install seesaws in the border wall 10 years ago, in 2009. A decade later, the project is finally complete. Three bright pink seesaws now intersect the wall between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico’s Chihuahua State — an area that’s been
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