Follow workers.org on
RED HOT: TRAYVON MARTIN
CHINA,
AFGHANISTAN, FIGHTING RACISM, OCCUPY WALL STREET,
PEOPLE'S POWER, SAVE OUR POST OFFICES, WOMEN, AFRICA,
LIBYA, WISCONSIN WORKERS FIGHT BACK, SUPPORT STATE & LOCAL WORKERS,
EGYPT, NORTH AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST,
STOP FBI REPRESSION, RESIST ARIZONA RACISM, NO TO FRACKING, DEFEND PUBLIC EDUCATION, ANTI-WAR,
HEALTH CARE,
CUBA, CLIMATE CHANGE,
JOBS JOBS JOBS,
STOP FORECLOSURES, IRAN,
IRAQ, CAPITALIST CRISIS,
IMMIGRANTS, LGBT, POLITICAL PRISONERS,
KOREA,
HONDURAS, HAITI,
SOCIALISM,
GAZA
|
|
Pastors for Peace brings aid to Chiapas
Published Jan 30, 2007 7:55 PM
More than 10 tons of humanitarian aid gathered by Pastors for Peace for the
people of Chiapas, Mexico, came through Houston on Jan. 13. The caravan was
greeted with a community dinner hosted at the SHAPE (Self-Help for African
People through Education) Community Center by Sisters of SHAPE, the Cuba
Solidarity Committee and the International Zapatista Action Movement (MAIZ),
and attended by members of Nuestra Palabra, a program on Houston’s
Pacifica Radio, and other local activists. Three caravan members spoke of the
solidarity needed in Chiapas from the world community.
When the bus got to Houston, a human assembly line was formed to load all the
locally gathered aid onto the little yellow school bus headed for Chiapas. MAIZ
activists had held several garage sales and collected dozens of boxes of
humanitarian aid as well as over $500 in cash for the trip.
The evening before it arrived in Houston, the caravan went to New Orleans and
dropped off aid to people there still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
—Gloria Rubac
Articles copyright 1995-2012 Workers World.
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice is preserved.
Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011
Email: ww@workers.org
Subscribe wwnews-subscribe@workersworld.net
Support independent news DONATE
|
|
Email this article
Print