Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I'll be taking off for Guatemala City. It will be the beginning of a 5 week journey from Guatemala city, north across the Guatemala/Mexico Border into Chiapas and Oaxaca. I will end with spring break in Oaxaca, and finally Mexico City. We will be meeting with a variety of groups having to do with migration and solidarity efforts in the region. Here are some of the groups we will meet while in Guatemala (Feb 22-27th).
- NISGUA, Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala
- Reunión HIJOS, Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice and Against Forgetfulness Silence. This are youth whose parents were “disappeared” during the Guatemalan Civil war.
- Reunión DESGUA and dinner with Alvino Vásquez Ex-Representante de Asuntos Indígenas de MIGUA
- Reunión Café Conciencia, small non-profit that focus on fair trade coffee and microcredit, eco-tourism, and community development
- Taller Universidad Autónoma María Elisa, will be talking about effects of remittances on sending communities
- Viaje a Cajola: Major migrant dynamic, economic issues related to migration, and they have made the decision to not depend on migration and they are looking to develop autonomy, have visit to Oventic; member of the community who was a migrant in the US, got shot in the face and changed his life, now back to Guatemala; organic egg farming, textile cooperative; transnational connections with people in the US
Also, we will have a group bog during our travels. The eight of us (all the students) will rotate who writes the entry. I will try to continue updating my blog, but the group blog will be more reliable, and it will have a variety of perspectives, besides mine. If you are interested, here is the link: http://spring2010borderstudies.blogspot.com/
We also have a group photo site: http://picasaweb.google.com/BorderStudiesSpring2010
I have posted some more photos of Santas Muertes, and trips to the desert.
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