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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I wish that I had known about it as well,
keely. I would have taken the afternoon off and had more than just a few
photos and a short video to offer.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I only hope that we have not heard the
last from these students and their cause.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have included the UI Movimiento
Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan (M. E. Ch. A.) as recipients of this email
hoping they will include us on any mailing lists they may maintain for their
activities.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Moscow</span></font></st1:City><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>PS to M. E. Ch. A. –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a
href="http://www.tomandronda.com/LatinoRally">http://www.tomandronda.com/LatinoRally</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:navy'>"Don't tell me why I can't.<br>
Show me how I can."<br>
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- Author Unknown </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>keely emerinemix<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:12
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] march for
immigrants' rights</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Tom, I appreciate your posting
pictures of the rally. I wish I had known about it. I would have
been there on behalf of my many immigrant friends, my country, and my
faith. <br>
<br>
For the eleven or so years I worked with Mexican immigrants in the 1990s, I had
bumper stickers, business cards, and such with what I considered to be my
life's motto -- "Todos Somos Vecinos," or "We Are All
Neighbors." My ministry was a one-person endeavor, but to avoid
calling it "the stuff Keely does," I called it "Vecinos,"
which is Spanish for "neighbors." I believed then, and do now,
that all of us are called to serve those near us who need help -- a Biblical
definition of "neighbor" that guided me during those years, when
God's grace and my wonderful husband's hard work enabled me to work with the
Mexican community in and around Snohomish/Monroe/Duvall, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>. My goal was Service,
Empowerment, Relationship and Advocacy (the Spanish acronym, SERA', means
"what will be," which worked out well!), and I'd like to think my work
with <i><span style='font-style:italic'>mis vecinos </span></i>was a
blessing to them and to my God. It certainly was to me.<br>
<br>
I'm not going to write a long, passionate treatise on immigration; I think
anyone who cares probably knows about my background and the opinions that stem
from it. I'm in regular contact with quite a few of the many people I
worked with, and this is a very personal issue for me, as much about the
practice of my faith as it is the exercise of my political views. But I
live here now, in an area that doesn't yet have a large population of
undocumented workers. <br>
<br>
And yet . . . I find that "todos somos vecinos" is as real to me now
as it was then. I see my community, the town I've adopted as my own and
where I hope to live the rest of my life, being torn apart. I feel as though
I've had a front seat in observing the "politics of personal
destruction," and I'm grieved by the indifference I see from the majority
and the vitriol I've experienced from the minority, and I pray that the passion
that informs my beliefs and activities is nonetheless kind. Neighborly,
even -- I share this wonderful town with all of you, with people who like me
and with people who loathe me, and memories of a decade or so of immersion in
Mexican immigrant culture stirs me to consider how well I live up to my fervent
belief, in whatever circumstance, that "todos somos vecinos."
Vision 2020 is a caring, contentious group of people who, if we have nothing
else in common, are at least neighbors, and I see us sometimes acting as if
that weren't so, or, worse, as if it didn't matter. It does. <br>
<br>
I have "neighbors" back in western Washington who suffer every day
from fear I can't possibly comprehend, who struggle every day with chains I'll
never experience, and who don't have the assurance of stability and permanence
that you and I have. A couple of my dear friends, who are more family to
me than the people in Arizona whose house I was born into, are in terrific
peril even now, and every single <i><span style='font-style:italic'>vecino </span></i>I've
been privileged to serve has been hurt, hated, and harmed by the toxin of
indifference and the violence of racism. It seems a world away from life
in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, and
yet I see hurt and hatred and harm leaching into our day-to-day dialogue and
I'm ashamed that it hasn't appalled me, torn at my heart, in the same way my
ministry experience did. It doesn't matter what I have on a bumper
sticker, sweatshirt, baseball cap or license-plate frame if I don't live it
here, now, and try to encourage others to as well. I don't mean that we
should be passive and milquetoast; on the contrary, there's a blessed fury that
should be manifested when bigotry, hatred, and malice are introduced. But
it seemed appropriate for me to reflect on our common neighborliness, or lack
thereof, and I hope you'll agree that there's a commonality we all have that
has to be respected and nourished before (and after) we deal with the things
that stir us. And if this sounds preachy, well . . . I'm a
preacher. But I'm well aware that I need to take to heart whatever
message I preach to anyone else; I just hope to contribute something of value
in the midst of whatever subject we're debating. <br>
<br>
So, I'm glad to be your neighbor -- it not only means living in the most
wonderful place I can imagine, but also getting to know some really great
people and a few who have given me cause to watch my tongue and guard my
heart. All in all, it's a pretty good thing we've all got here.<br>
<br>
keely<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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