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
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I am in total support of Mayapan. It appears that the city is trying to reneg on the funding. I will be there to support.
ReplyDeleteMayapan and Mujer Obrera are essential projects in the struggle for immigrant women workers' rights on the border, in El Paso, and as a model and inspiration internationally. It is only short-sighted stupidity to imagine this organization or its commitment to justice, jobs, and a better life for/by women workers will somehow go away if critically needed investment by the public sector is withheld. We must come together as a community, acknowledge the lack of a viable labor movement for the time being, for this sector, in our area, and support the only alternative that the workers themselves have designed and implemented, with all the challenges and unconventionality that entails.
ReplyDeleteThis public-sector worker commits to contributing $1,000 a year to the Mayapan crisis fund until the public officials charged with the present well being and future economic security of some of the hardest-working members of this borderland community can once again be restored by the combination of public and private support and the organizations' own revenues.