For Friendship & Hope, a Vigil from Coast to Coast
On Sunday, June 1st. groups gather to protest the border wall all the way from Friendship Park in San Diego, CA, to Hope Park in Brownsville, TX.The vigil at Hope Park, started with a "canto" a solemn prayer by the group Calli Ollin, an Azteca/Chichimeca indigenous group of our region. It was followed by some poems about the border wall written by Gene Novo and Nephtalide Leon. Present were people from McAllen, Harlingen, San Benito, AZ, Kansas and Brownsville. At the end of the Vigil, participants, were invited by CASA members to sign a banner that will be traveling around collecting signatures of people opposing the border wall. Around 55 people participated in the vigil. The event was organized by CASA (Coalition of Amigos in Solidarity & Action) among others, groups endorsing the event are: ProyectoAzteca, San Felipe de Jesus Church, ARISE, Proyecto Juan Diego, ProyectoLibertad, Presbyterian Church of Brownsville.
CASEROs met with Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico to the US.
Casa Members with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and Congressmen H. Cuellar
Yajaira and Ryan Tauber, meeting with Congressmen Silvestre Reyes
CASEROs meeting with David Pagan, and Border Patrol Agen, at J. Napilitano's offices
Cindy Johnson and Yajaira Fuentes in a prodicutive meeting with Congressmen R. Grijalva
Meeting with Patricia Villarreal, Executive Director of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
FEEDJIT Live Traffic Map
The Border wall, the greates social sin of the 21st. Century
Praying at the border fence in El Calaboz, TX
Vigil at Hope Park
Youth Group from San Felipe de Jesus, Church Representatives, and concern Citizens, gather at Hope Park, to protes against the border wall and pray for CASA trip to DC
On Sunday, June 1st. groups gather to protest the border wall all the way from Friendship Park in San Diego, CA, to Hope Park in Brownsville, TX.The vigil at Hope Park, started with a "canto" a solemn prayer by the group Calli Ollin, an Azteca/Chichimeca indigenous group of our region. It was followed by some poems about the border wall written by Gene Novo and Nephtali de Leon. Present were people from McAllen, Harlingen, San Benito, AZ, Kansas and Brownsville. At the end of the Vigil, participants, were invited by CASA m
embers to sign a banner that will be traveling around collecting signatures of people opposing the border wall. Around 55 people participated in the vigil. The event was organized by CASA (Coalition of Amigos in Solidarity & Action) among others, groups endorsing the event are: Proyecto Azteca, San Felipe de Jesus Church, ARISE, Proyecto Juan Diego, Proyecto Libertad, Presbyterian Church of Brownsville.
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