Tegucigalpa Coming back from a visit with our friends at the women’s coffee cooperative in Marcala having both taken important steps forward in our emerging relationship as well as enjoyed their hospitality with a great experience on staying and meeting on the mountains, we drove back along the three hour construction site that marks entering …
Category: ACORN International
Teachers on Hunger Strike, Union Fighting Wholesale Repression
Tegucigalpa Before 8 AM on Monday morning we were greeting Jaime Rodriguez, the President of COPEMH (Colegiio de Profesores de Educacion Media de Honduras) in the parking lot of the Colegio and teachers’ union. Even as the lights left us in darkness drinking our sweet coffee in a sky lit waiting room, he told us …
Do Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Deserve This?
Tegucigalpa The annual board meeting of ACORN International is being held next week and this year it will be held in Honduras to celebrate the two offices opened in this country last year. While flying I read the paper and more than once a front page article entitled “Family Quarrel Imperils a Labor Hero’s Legacy.” …