Solidarity Brigade
& Celebration
Saturday April 8
Road trip to Mexico
just 20 minutes from border11th anniversary of founding of
Poblado Maclovio Rojas
endorsed byThe Friends of Maclovio Rojas /
Orange County Green Party / CISPES
travel details & confirmation of your ride.
$20 transport costs to Mexico by van.
Leave Costa Mesa ( Orange Cty ) at noon.
Return that evening or next day
depending on group consensus.
Accommodations for sleeping bag stay in either
Maclovio Rojas' Aguascalientes cultural center
or downtown San Diego's
soon-to-be-redeveloped bohemian quarter.
Hear how NAFTA has intensified the assault on their struggle for self determination.
Dialogue with Poblado representatives; learn about recent efforts to save the community from
being razed by the government to make way for another maquiladora.
See the murals and cultural center created by the community
in cooperation with the Border Arts
Workshop activists of San Diego & built in fulfillment of the Zapatista Aguascalientes
mandate to make such cultural centers the genuine and practical heart of their communities.
provided by The Friends of Maclovio Rojas;
see how a thriving village has been
constructed with U.S. refuse it has hauled.
Network with activists from all over the
western U.S. joining this 4th historic brigade.
