Welcome to Food in the Sweltering Summer Hood!
Remember last June when it wouldn't stop raining long enough to schedule an outdoor event? That sure seemed like a different swing of the climate pendulum than now.
Thank you to everyone who made our only Spring FitH such a success. We sent $240 to Rights Action for their work in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Chiapas.
This week on Saturday, July 7th, we'll be holding a brunch event around 11:00, just after our gopher-hunting demonstration by Gophers Limited. The fundraising will be for a FitH favorite - the Friendship Office of the Americas. It was founded by Rita Clark D'Escoto, the sister of Miguel D'Escoto, former president of the UN General Assembly. My good friends Tom Louden and Jenny Atlee, an extraordinary couple, head up their Honduran office. Tom started the Alliance for Responsible Trade and was appointed to be the Executive Secretary of the Commission of Truth in Honduras. Jenny wrote Red Thread: A Spiritual Journey of Accompaniment, Trauma and Healing about her experiences in Nicaragua during the US-sponsored contra wars.
There is no more worthy cause than Honduras, which is still bearing the brunt of the military coup that deposed Manuel Zelaya on June 28th, three years ago. Due to the catastrophic rise in violence and repression since then, the UN has deemed Honduras the most dangerous country in the world, with over 300 political assassinations in that time. Witness for Peace has a letter you can send to Congress to end military aid to the coup regime.
Let's hope that Paraguay isn't following in their post-coup footsteps.