VAMOS A LA MILPA:
Sowing Seeds of Love & Hope
INVITATION to Join the Vamos a la MILPA
Delegation to Honduras - July 2nd to 12th, 2021
"We invite you to come to Honduras to be in solidarity with the Milpa” an invitation from padre Melo, SJ of Radio Progresso/ERIC and hermana Rosa Maria SSND.
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Let's get together and continue with hope defending and caring for the blood of mother earth and the spirits” This delegation welcomes all people that support food sovereignty and to eliminate the root causes of immigration.
Objectives: to be in solidarity with the Milpa, to accompany human and environmental rights defenders, and to return to the U.S. and plant La Milpa with seeds of solidarity. Proposed Itinerary: Participate in the Blessing of the Seeds ceremony with Lenca communities, help plant the Milpa of Guapinol River political prisoners, accompany the planting of the Milpa in San Pedro Sula urban communities, participate in the Milpa National Congress, and meeting with relatives of refugees in the US. We will travel to San Pedro Sula airport on July 2nd and return on the 12th. For those that cannot travel to Honduras you can join the Virtual Milpa Delegation. You will travel with the delegation via zoom, FaceBook, and Instagram. Please register at [email protected] The cost is approximately $950, plus airfare. Scholarships are available. ¡VAMOS A LA MILPA! |
Milpa Committee: Mary Anne, Perrone, Jean Stokan, Amy Argenal, Kathleen Ericson, RSM, Rev. Dev Avery, Rev. Deborah Lee, Ann Pratt, OP, Valeria Lewandoski, OSM, Mark Coplan, CARECEN LA, Christopher Lopez,
and Jose Artiga
P.S. We invite you to support the Milpa by donating to SHARE/Vamos a la Milpa 2425 College Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704 or online at SHARE-ElSalvador.org
Contact [email protected], telephone +1 510 848 8487 with any ideas, leads or questions, ant to volunteer to organize the Vamos a la Milpa delegation.
and Jose Artiga
P.S. We invite you to support the Milpa by donating to SHARE/Vamos a la Milpa 2425 College Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704 or online at SHARE-ElSalvador.org
Contact [email protected], telephone +1 510 848 8487 with any ideas, leads or questions, ant to volunteer to organize the Vamos a la Milpa delegation.
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Dear friends of the people of Honduras,
Warmest greetings, and hopes you are healthy and well. Two months after a pair of hurricanes decimated Honduras left 80% of people without basic resources and destroyed or affected up to 80% of the country’s agricultural production, utter despair, and near starvation is griping the population. v The UN estimates that 1.4 million Hondurans remain particularly vulnerable due to the compounding threats of food insecurity and disease, growing numbers of Covid-19 and dengue fever cases, on top of the destroyed homes, collapsed latrines, contaminated wells, and people living in unfit shelters. v The corrupt, repressive Honduran government has abandoned the poor majority and is accused of absconding with international aid meant to address the pandemic as well as the hurricanes. v The Honduran public healthcare system in the north of the country, already weakened from the 2014 corruption scandal, in which the president’s political party siphoned off $300 million, collapsed this week. .. Read More.. Join the movement! Vamos a la Milpa!Vertical Divider
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Sign letter to Vice President Kamala Harris
Dear Sisters and brothers,
Warmest greetings and hopes you are well.
We are writing to ask you to help us get members of your community to sign the attached letter to Vice President Kamala Harris.
The letter is a statement of support for a SHARE-sponsored delegation of religious and community leaders traveling to Honduras July 2-12, 2021 at the invitation of Sister Rosa Maria Troches, SSND and Father Ishmael “Melo” Coto, SJ. The purpose of the delegation is twofold:
1. To support a promising local initiative – Vamos a la Milpa – to build food security and community bonds.
2. To visit the families of 8 environmentalists from Guapinol unjustly incarcerated for over a year and seek their release.
Vamos a la Milpa draws from the age-old indigenous tradition of planting vegetable gardens of corn, beans, squash, fruit trees, medicinal plants, flowers and more. Not unlike the “victory gardens” planted during WWII in the United States, the campaign is an effort to promote local sources of food and solidarity as communities confront the devastation, dislocation and hunger caused by the recent natural disasters, the endemic violence and corruption plaguing their countries, and the recent hurricanes that further devastated the region. It also brings communities together to demand basic human rights, the rule of law, and due process.
Our hope is to gather as many signatures as possible of men and women religious by June 30th, 2021.
Read the letter and sign, PLEASE SIGN HERE.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or Jean Stokan, Justice Coordinator at Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, [email protected], 202-841-0533 (cell) or
Jose Artiga, Executive Director, SHARE Foundation, [email protected], 510-848-8487.
Thank you so very much for your consideration of this request.
On behalf of the “Vamos a la Milpa” Steering Committee,
Partial List of “Vamos a la Milpa” Steering Committee:
Amy Argenal, University of San Francisco Sister Valeria Lewandoski, OSM
Jose Artiga, SHARE Foundation Mary Ann Perrone
Rev. Dev. Avery, Presbyterian Church Eileen Purcell, SHARE Advisory Board
Rev. Marilyn Chilcote, Presbyterian Church Sister Ann Pratt, OP.
Sister Diane Clyne, RSM Sister Ann Scholz, SSND
Sister Kathleen Erickson, RSM Jean Stokan, Sisters of Mercy Justice Coordinator
Rev. Deborah Lee, IM4H
Warmest greetings and hopes you are well.
We are writing to ask you to help us get members of your community to sign the attached letter to Vice President Kamala Harris.
The letter is a statement of support for a SHARE-sponsored delegation of religious and community leaders traveling to Honduras July 2-12, 2021 at the invitation of Sister Rosa Maria Troches, SSND and Father Ishmael “Melo” Coto, SJ. The purpose of the delegation is twofold:
1. To support a promising local initiative – Vamos a la Milpa – to build food security and community bonds.
2. To visit the families of 8 environmentalists from Guapinol unjustly incarcerated for over a year and seek their release.
Vamos a la Milpa draws from the age-old indigenous tradition of planting vegetable gardens of corn, beans, squash, fruit trees, medicinal plants, flowers and more. Not unlike the “victory gardens” planted during WWII in the United States, the campaign is an effort to promote local sources of food and solidarity as communities confront the devastation, dislocation and hunger caused by the recent natural disasters, the endemic violence and corruption plaguing their countries, and the recent hurricanes that further devastated the region. It also brings communities together to demand basic human rights, the rule of law, and due process.
Our hope is to gather as many signatures as possible of men and women religious by June 30th, 2021.
Read the letter and sign, PLEASE SIGN HERE.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or Jean Stokan, Justice Coordinator at Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, [email protected], 202-841-0533 (cell) or
Jose Artiga, Executive Director, SHARE Foundation, [email protected], 510-848-8487.
Thank you so very much for your consideration of this request.
On behalf of the “Vamos a la Milpa” Steering Committee,
Partial List of “Vamos a la Milpa” Steering Committee:
Amy Argenal, University of San Francisco Sister Valeria Lewandoski, OSM
Jose Artiga, SHARE Foundation Mary Ann Perrone
Rev. Dev. Avery, Presbyterian Church Eileen Purcell, SHARE Advisory Board
Rev. Marilyn Chilcote, Presbyterian Church Sister Ann Pratt, OP.
Sister Diane Clyne, RSM Sister Ann Scholz, SSND
Sister Kathleen Erickson, RSM Jean Stokan, Sisters of Mercy Justice Coordinator
Rev. Deborah Lee, IM4H