Host: El Paso Comadres
Location: Mercado Mayapan
2101 Myrtle, El Paso, TX 79901 US
When: Sunday, December 6, 4:00PM
Phone: 532-6200
Join us for our December Comadrazo/Ornament Exchange on 12/6 @4pm. We'll be meeting at the Mercado Mayapan. They have a wonderful mercado central/food court. Purchase your favorite platillo from the many vendors. We'll provide the drinks.
Participation in the ornament exchange is completely voluntary. The only request is that if you do plan on partaking, you please bring a nice ornament (something you would enjoy receiving) suggested price range of $5.
Open to the community and as a special holiday treat, Comadre Margie Brickey will be sharing her creative crafting skills with a WREATH MAKING SESSION from 3 to 4pm. Supply list will be sent under separate cover for those interested in coming early and joining in.
Directions to Mercado Mayapan, 2101 Myrtle, 532-6200
- I-10, exit Piedras St., turn south at Piedras
- Take Piedras overpass to Alameda,
- Turn right on Alameda, down 1/2 blk, bearing left
- Left on Myrtle 2 blks to 2101 Myrtle (its a one way street).
Thanks for joining us in November for brunch at G&R restaurant.
Remember Las Comadres has no dues, no officers, requires no commitments of you...just show up to meet the wonderful women in your community. From there we build support networks that will blow your socks off!!! We buy from each other's businesses; we post jobs, scholarships, and mucho mas!
If you haven't had a chance to attend a comadrazo in a long time (or you've never attended); now is a great time to come. We know your time is very valuable, we invite you to come partake in taking our comadrazos to the next level.
Come join us!
Con Carino,
Margie Brickey, Alicia Rascon & Rosa Celis-Rodriguez
El Paso Las Comadres Facilitators/Coordinators
Nora de Hoyos Comstock, Ph.D. Founder
Las Comadres para las Americas connecting Latinas all over the world!
http://www.lascomadres.org/; nora@comconn.com mailto:nora%40comconn.com
512-928-8780 voice/fax; Cell: 512-751-7837
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
eWoman Network Holiday Extravaganza 12/8/09, 5:30 to 9PM at Mercado Mayapan
Come be part of an Exciting Evening!
Expand your connections during Accelerated Networking!
Start your Holiday Shopping with us at our Vendor Showcase!
Enjoy traditional Posada Cuisine!
Fashion Show Extravaganza featuring Prominent Fabulous Women in our community!
…and, did we mention Shopping?
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Event: 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (Doors open and informal networking begins at 5:30pm)
La Mujer Obrera / Mercado Mayapan
2101 Myrtle, El Paso, TX 79901, (on Myrtle between Walnut and Willow)
$35.00 - Members and Friend of Mayapan/Mayachen, $45.00 - Prospective Members
$55.00 - Late registration, beginning December 5th.
A limited number of Business Showcase display tables are available to showcase or sell your products and services. The fee is $65.00 for nonmembers and $50.00 for eWN Members and Amigos de Mayapan/Mayachen, nonrefundable.
Sponsorships opportunities available on multiple levels.
Please join us and see why eWomenNetwork is recognized as the #1 resource for connecting and promoting women and their businesses.
For more information contact:
Melissa Rodriguez, Managing Director
(915) 494-5485Melissa@eWomenNetwork.com
Monday, November 23, 2009
Vote for La Mujer Obrera: Chase Bank community giving Contest
Vote for La Mujer Obrera: Chase Bank community giving Contest
Please share this message with everyone you can!!!
Chase Bank is conducting a national contest to give 20 non-profits $25,000 each. But you have to vote through Facebook. It’s called Chase Community Giving.
La Mujer Obrera is an organization of that operates a social-purpose Mercado dedicated to creating jobs, businesses, and income for low-income women workers and their families in El Paso, TX. It is registered as a contestant under our corporate name Centro Obrero Del Fronterizo. The voting ends December 11th.
Please get this out to all your email contacts and Facebook friends. And please join Facebook (www.facebook.com) and vote for La Mujer Obrera.
For those who need more info on our organization, you can visit http://www.mujerobrera.org/
or http://www.mercadomayapan.org/
or http://www.lummetik.com/
Many thanks,
La Mujer Obrera
Please share this message with everyone you can!!!
Chase Bank is conducting a national contest to give 20 non-profits $25,000 each. But you have to vote through Facebook. It’s called Chase Community Giving.
La Mujer Obrera is an organization of that operates a social-purpose Mercado dedicated to creating jobs, businesses, and income for low-income women workers and their families in El Paso, TX. It is registered as a contestant under our corporate name Centro Obrero Del Fronterizo. The voting ends December 11th.
Please get this out to all your email contacts and Facebook friends. And please join Facebook (www.facebook.com) and vote for La Mujer Obrera.
For those who need more info on our organization, you can visit http://www.mujerobrera.org/
or http://www.mercadomayapan.org/
or http://www.lummetik.com/
Many thanks,
La Mujer Obrera
Monday, November 9, 2009
10,000 people visited Mercado Mayapan, thanks and update from Cindy, Irma and all the staff.
On October 1 the women received an “Invest in the American Dream”Award from Texas Senator Eliot Shapleigh in El Paso, Texas for Wealth Creation. http://investintheamericandream.org/
The following week with funding from the Ford Foundation, LINC’s Artography project announced the inclusion of the organization and Mercado Mayapan in an elite national group of innovative organizations doing groundbreaking work on arts in a changing society. http://artsinachangingamerica.net/section/view/2009_grantees
A week later, the local leadership of Bank of America presented a check for a $25,000 grant in support of Mercado Mayapan. This is one of the largest corporate donations ever provided to our efforts.Also in October, we were asked by the Smithsonian Latino Center to provide photographs for inclusion in their virtual celebration of the Day of the Dead. http://latino.si.edu/education/LVMDayoftheDeadFestival.htm
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_13680137?IADID=Search-www.elpasotimes.com-www.elpasotimes.com
We want to thank everyone in the community and across the country and in Mexico who have helped us reach this critical juncture for the organization. Mercado Mayapan is the community’s Mercado, created by low-income women workers, as a school, a festival marketplace, and a community building space. Please come join us any day of the week for shopping and wonderful food. And every weekend, in November we will be celebrating Morelos, the home of Emiliano Zapata. And coming in December we will be celebrating the food and culture of the posadas!!
We were featured in the day of the dead webpage as the largest celebration.
http://www.diasdemuertos.com/
For more information, contact us at info@mujerobrera.org. Thank you, La Mujer Obrera
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Mujer Obrera awarded Best Practice for Access To Capital Award
The month of October is off the a great start with the women workers accepting being honored tonight as the recipient of the Best Practice for Access to Capital Award for the annual Invest In the American Dream Banquet!! Felicidades to Irma Montoya, Lorena Andrade, Cindy Arnold and all of the women workers of the Mercado Mayapan!!
Additionally, La Mujer Obrera and the Mercado Mayapan have been selected to be included in an exclusive cohert as part of Arts in a Changing America Arts in a Changing America is a grant and documentation program aimed at supporting exemplary art-making set within the landscape of changing demographics in America. ARTOGRAPHY nurtures arts communities that encourage diversity and artistry while engaging the wider public in a critical dialogue.
For ARTOGRAPHY, exceptional artistic practice is the standard by which investigations into diversity and human achievement can and must be manifested and understood. Artists and arts organizations should be empowered to describe (as well as inscribe) their own practices and develop their own language of identity.
Schedule of Events for Mercado Mayapan October 2009
Mercado Hours: M-F 8am to 7 pm Sat and Sun 8-5
October 1st Access to Capital Award given to Mercado Mayapan at American Dream Banquet, 5-9,
El Paso Museum of Art
October 3-4 Cultural Programming in the Plaza Cultural
October 5-9 Delegation of Women Workers Visit D.C. to gain support for NaDBank and Department of
Labor Grant Applications and to Network with National Organization and Potential Partners
October 6 Amigos de Mayachen/Friends of Mayapan Meeting, 5:30-7:00 p.m. - Mercado Mayapan
October 10-11 Cultural Programming in the Plaza Cultural
October 17-18 Festival de Maiz - Corn Festival
October 23-24 Cultural Programming in the Plaza Cultural
October 31 Day of the Dead Celebration (continued Novermber 1st)
Thank you for your continued support of the Mercado Mayapan. Remember to bring your family and friends to Discover the Mercado Mayapan and shop and eat!!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
MERCADO MAYAPAN REMAINS OPEN!!!
The city vote was a profound injustice and violation of the women's rights. But the women are continuing in their struggle. Now, more than ever, we ask the community to support the women's struggle. Come and spend time and money at Mercado Mayapan, and bring all of your friends and families. Let's show City Council how wrong their vote was!!
Members of El Paso City Council denied funding for the creation of a business incubator in Mercado Mayapan. The incubator would have trained women to create their own business and would have provided support and space for the business.
City Representative Holguin led the anti woman rally insisting for proof of sustainability which was provided. The interrogation included ridiculous questions which were not asked of other applicants. “If you took away all government money would you be able to sustain yourself?” was one question. That question was never asked of the other applicants who are not self sustaining and survive from government funding.
Members of El Paso City Council denied funding for the creation of a business incubator in Mercado Mayapan. The incubator would have trained women to create their own business and would have provided support and space for the business.
City Representative Holguin led the anti woman rally insisting for proof of sustainability which was provided. The interrogation included ridiculous questions which were not asked of other applicants. “If you took away all government money would you be able to sustain yourself?” was one question. That question was never asked of the other applicants who are not self sustaining and survive from government funding.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Urgent: City Council to vote on womans human rights!
URGENT:
3PM
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22
2ND FLOOR CITY HALL
On Tuesday, City Council will vote on the human right of women workers and their families in El Paso to have an economic future with dignity and justice.
For many years La Mujer Obrera has been dedicated to defending and promoting these rights.
For the past 10 years we have worked to create jobs, businesses and income for/with women and their families, to demonstrate the potential of the women who had been judged to be “unfortunate but necessary casualties” of the economic policies of this country and city.
For the past four months we have operated a Mercado that not only employs more than 100 women but also serves as a future for their families, and a means to transform the Chamizal barrio, all rooted in the dignity of their own heritage, history, lives and contributions.
For the past two weeks, the women, with the support of the community, have been operating the Mercado full-time, as volunteers, as a demonstration of their commitment and determination to create a pathway for themselves out of poverty, and as a protest against government inaction and injustice.
BUT TODAY, Friday, city staff released their recommendations, disparaging the women’s efforts and calling for the organization to OPERATE FULLY FOR 3 MONTHS, before receiving any reimbursement for expenses generated through the city funded project.
The decision is now in the hands of City Council. Will they vote in support of the women and their determination to create a future for themselves and their families? Or will they side with City staff, and perpetuate the discrimination and marginalization that the women have been subjected to for decades?
Acknowledging the commitment of the women, on September 9, the Empowerment Zone committee voted unanimously to fund Mercado Mayapan, without any other conditions. Since then, the City staff has imposed the onerous conditions on the approved funding without informing the committee, the women or the general public.
Tuesday’s City Council meeting and vote are a referendum on the status of women workers in El Paso, who are already in crisis. Earlier this summer, we saw Planned Parenthood, a vital service for low-income women, close without a word of protest. Now, one of the few organizations in El Paso creating jobs and businesses with low-income women is threatened with elimination.
It is imperative that everyone who supports women workers’ human rights to a future with dignity and justice attend City Council Tuesday. Those who can’t attend should contact their City representative and the Mayor and express their concern. Urgent action is needed. The future of women workers’ rights in El Paso is at stake
3PM
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22
2ND FLOOR CITY HALL
On Tuesday, City Council will vote on the human right of women workers and their families in El Paso to have an economic future with dignity and justice.
For many years La Mujer Obrera has been dedicated to defending and promoting these rights.
For the past 10 years we have worked to create jobs, businesses and income for/with women and their families, to demonstrate the potential of the women who had been judged to be “unfortunate but necessary casualties” of the economic policies of this country and city.
For the past four months we have operated a Mercado that not only employs more than 100 women but also serves as a future for their families, and a means to transform the Chamizal barrio, all rooted in the dignity of their own heritage, history, lives and contributions.
For the past two weeks, the women, with the support of the community, have been operating the Mercado full-time, as volunteers, as a demonstration of their commitment and determination to create a pathway for themselves out of poverty, and as a protest against government inaction and injustice.
BUT TODAY, Friday, city staff released their recommendations, disparaging the women’s efforts and calling for the organization to OPERATE FULLY FOR 3 MONTHS, before receiving any reimbursement for expenses generated through the city funded project.
The decision is now in the hands of City Council. Will they vote in support of the women and their determination to create a future for themselves and their families? Or will they side with City staff, and perpetuate the discrimination and marginalization that the women have been subjected to for decades?
Acknowledging the commitment of the women, on September 9, the Empowerment Zone committee voted unanimously to fund Mercado Mayapan, without any other conditions. Since then, the City staff has imposed the onerous conditions on the approved funding without informing the committee, the women or the general public.
Tuesday’s City Council meeting and vote are a referendum on the status of women workers in El Paso, who are already in crisis. Earlier this summer, we saw Planned Parenthood, a vital service for low-income women, close without a word of protest. Now, one of the few organizations in El Paso creating jobs and businesses with low-income women is threatened with elimination.
It is imperative that everyone who supports women workers’ human rights to a future with dignity and justice attend City Council Tuesday. Those who can’t attend should contact their City representative and the Mayor and express their concern. Urgent action is needed. The future of women workers’ rights in El Paso is at stake
Support Needed at El Paso City Council
Your support is needed at El Paso City Council! (Please become a follower of this blog)
El Paso City Council will be voting on Empowerment Zone funds for Mercado Mayapan on Tuesday, September 22. THESE ARE FEDERAL FUNDS, NOT CITY GENERAL OPERATING FUNDS. These are funds that came to the City more than 10 years ago in the name of these women workers and their conditions.
The EZ funding is item 12 and will be heard at 3pm in City council chambers 2nd floor City Hall. Please plan to attend at 3pm and help spread the word. Also if someone can not attend City Council, please have them contact their City Representative and the Mayor by email or phone prior to Tuesday at 3pm. Email, phone and fax info for city reps and the mayor are at
http://www.elpasotexas.gov/government.asp
It is URGENT that all community supporters of the women’s struggle for justice and a future with dignity attend this council meeting and show their support
If you are not in El Paso you can help too: please seee WOMEN WORKERS ON THE BORDER: HIDDEN CASUALTIES OF ECONOMIC CRISIS at La Mujer Obrera webpage
http://www.mujerobrera.org/
Check our links at the bottom of the page for important information nationally
Thanks for your continued support
El Paso City Council will be voting on Empowerment Zone funds for Mercado Mayapan on Tuesday, September 22. THESE ARE FEDERAL FUNDS, NOT CITY GENERAL OPERATING FUNDS. These are funds that came to the City more than 10 years ago in the name of these women workers and their conditions.
The EZ funding is item 12 and will be heard at 3pm in City council chambers 2nd floor City Hall. Please plan to attend at 3pm and help spread the word. Also if someone can not attend City Council, please have them contact their City Representative and the Mayor by email or phone prior to Tuesday at 3pm. Email, phone and fax info for city reps and the mayor are at
http://www.elpasotexas.gov/government.asp
It is URGENT that all community supporters of the women’s struggle for justice and a future with dignity attend this council meeting and show their support
If you are not in El Paso you can help too: please seee WOMEN WORKERS ON THE BORDER: HIDDEN CASUALTIES OF ECONOMIC CRISIS at La Mujer Obrera webpage
http://www.mujerobrera.org/
Check our links at the bottom of the page for important information nationally
Thanks for your continued support
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