Here we are, on the Brownsville/Matamoros Border, the place we’ve been talking about going to for months. Here we are, with our passion, our commitment, and our privilege, ready to do what we can to connect, to support, to witness, and to protest.We got up early this morning to meet Melba Lucio, director of the …
Category Archives: Witness and humanitarian action on the border
First Day: Escuelita
We crammed quite a bit into our first morning. Meeting at the Brownsville bus station, we joined a good-sized group of volunteers in a centering ritual before walking en masse across the bridge into Mexico. Crossing was smooth. They were telling people to open their backpacks for inspection, but when I got to the front …
First Day: Arrival in Brownsville
Not much to report from yesterday, but honoring the commitment to make sure there’s a new post covering every day of our witness and relief mission. Of the 10 members in our delegation, nine were on the same Hartford-Houston-Harlingen itinerary. The tenth, flying out of Boston, arrived a couple of hours later. Most of the …