Friendship Park is in the northwestern corner of Mexico and the southwestern corner of the USA. It's been a place where people from both countries could get together and picnic, talk, see family they have no other way of seeing, and connect the two sides of the San Diego/Tijuana metropolis - one ecosystem, one community, one city with a wall down the middle.
The federal government has a total lack of understanding of the hardships a community faces with a wall in the middle of it.
This week President Obama will sit down to visit with President Felipe Calderon in Mexico. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security is shutting down Friendship Park, where people from San Diego and Tijuana have visited with friends for generations. In solidarity with those being denied access to this historic venue, and in protest of DHS decision-making , which has excluded all community voices, friends of Friendship Park invite you to join a Silent Vigil on the day before the presidential meeting.
Where: Border Patrol Headquarters
2411 Boswell Rd
Chula Vista, CA 91914
When: Wednesday, April 15th, 12 noon
Friends of Friendship Park will arrive early and stay late –
join us on your lunch hour!
What to bring: Silence!
Wear white clothes. Please also bring Mexican candies as
gifts for Border Patrol.
For more information on Friendship Park and what it means to those of us in this part of the world, visit
http://www.friendshippark.org.
If you can't be there on April 15, visit the website and send a message that now more than ever we need to maintain community and communications between countries.
Labels: Activism, Politics
Tomorrow is the big Earth Fair in San Diego's Balboa Park. San Diego's Earth Fair bills itself as "The world's largest annual environmental fair and Earth Day Celebration – produced by volunteers." It's free and fun. Environmental booths, music, a kid's parade, and the unofficial mondo drum circle. This year, I'm working a booth for the Rose Creek Watershed Alliance, of which my local community group, the Friends of Rose Creek is a part. I'll be there all day long, so stop by and visit if you like. We'll be on the east end of El Prado in front of the SD Railroad Museum. 
