Douglas, AZ
31.348389, -109.581444
Mobile Surveillance Capability (MSC)
May, 2023
31.348389, -109.581444
Mobile Surveillance Capability (MSC)
May, 2023
This is a Mobile Surveillance Capability (MSC)—sometimes also referred to as Mobile Vehicle Surveillance System (MVSS)—vehicle, positioned atop a massive pile of smelting slag on the outskirts of Douglas in Cochise County, Arizona. Together, the surveillance vehicle and piles of slag—a by-product of the mining industry—form part of an infrastructure of conquest and control that has been under construction in Cochise County for more than 150 years and has shaped this landscape into one of extraction, displacement, and expropriation.