NOTES FROM THE TRAIL

Confronting 287(g)

It makes me think of my own mother and how she would drive my sisters and I to school, even though she didn’t have a license (because she couldn’t get one) and how she would drive us regardless of the pain she felt due to the metastatic cancer on her left leg. I think about how millions of people undergo the same fear everyday because of their undocumented status.

 

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Posted on marzo 15 2010 by carlos | Post a Comment

Free Spirited Koinonia

Koinonia is currently visited by people all across the world, fascinated and completely captivated by its simplicity based on peace, love and joy.  I was completely intrigued by this community, especially having seen a young white girl, wearing a long purple dress, walk nearby us.  With her radiant smile, she walked barefoot as she beautifully sang a social justice freedom song.  We all felt accepted with open doors from the first minute we walked into the social lunch location, where people were eating together as they usually do.

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Posted on febrero 19 2010 by carlos | Post a Comment