Posted by Rachel on: 10.25.2007 /
OTM friend Jason Evans and his faith community The Ecclesia Collective posted this report about their experiences as they work to assist people affected by the San Diego fires.
As many of you know, many of us in our community have been feeding the volunteers collecting donations at the Chicano Park donation drop point.
Yesterday, our group of primarily gringos experienced some resistance to serving the primarily Latino volunteers. We came to find out that earlier in the day, they were harassed by the Minutemen and some people came to take away donations, which the volunteers at this station allowed. Why did this happen? Because this drop point is trying help undocumented, non-English speaking people as well as others directly effected by the fires. more
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