Mexico / US 2008-2009

Here's the full article about the protest:

http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_12574451

It has been exactly three weeks since the start of my internship at the Women’s Intercultural Center located in the rural border community of Anthony, NM.  Since my first day it has been quite an amazing journey that has yet to show me its full potential.

This blog was originally posted on June 11, 2009.

We protested today outside the Department of Homeland Security building. In a nutshell, this guy came to the border and asked for asylum

Ok, before you judge me for putting a star trek quote as the title of this entry, just give it some thought. Cause I have. It was ridiculously relevant to my life when I heard it, and I've been pondering the ethics of laws ever since.

It is a piece of crap.

Within a week:

-I realized that half of the gears didn't work.

-The back break didn't work

-The front break started to work less well

-The dog chewed off half of the pedal

This blog was originally posted on June 8, 2009.

This blog was originally posted on June 1, 2009.

Hey all,

sorry for taking forever to update.  I really don't have any excuse other than laziness. SO! let's rewind...Wednesday:Andrea (one of the other Community Organizing interns that apparently isn't doing it anymore. poo.) and I went to talk to the day workers that gather on one particular street. We passed out flyers and asked people to join us for a meeting on Friday where we'd start putting together a list of dishonest employers.  Everyone was really receptive and was happy to talk to us.  Only one guy asked for my number, and I got one "ayy guapa" so I guess that's good?  Then I spent the rest of the day faxing Public Service Announcements to radio stations about a Workers Rights Clinic and a focus group about wage theft in El Paso. 

This blog was originally posted on May 26, 2009. 

FINALLY.

not sayin' I was getting bored or anything, but I was getting bored. So, woke up at 7 today, (actually, I woke up at 6:30.  I have consistently been waking up half an hour before my alarm, getting annoyed, and forcing myself to sleep more) and caught the 8:00 bus that stops down the street.  The bus driver was super nice.  He knew where Poughkeepsie was, so he is A-OK in my book.  He's got some crazy accent, but lived in Brooklyn for 6 years.  He used to drive buses all around upstate New York (like the REAL upstate.

This blog was originally posted on May 24, 2009.

Dear My Beautiful Public,

So in yesterday's post I mentioned the 'cute' shrubbery on the mountain. I'd like to ammend this and replace it with DEADLY AND POISONOUS.  This is what I learned on my hike yesterday: when in the desert, follow these rules.  1) Don't fall on anything. 2) Don't eat anything. 3) Don't poke bugs with sticks (they might shoot noxious liquids at you). As Joe, Aurolyn's boyfriend, says, everything in the desert is either sharp, venemous, or hard.  I'm not sure how dust fits into that equation, but theres a fair amount of that too. I'm waiting to take a shower because I'm afraid the lovely tan I've already aquired might actually just be a thin layer of dust. 

Originally posted May 23, 2009.

Hello avid readers!  Before we begin, let me get some stuff out of the way.