FROM GUERRILLAS TO GROWERS

From Guerrillas to Growers Colomba Costa Cuca, Guatemala Santa Anita La Union is a collective of thirty-three families growing organic coffee, bananas, and avocados on 100 acres in the mountains...

...Illustrator Eric Drooker and muralist Susan Greene went to the Occupied Territories, where they joined Palestinians painting the Wall that Israel has erected in their land...
...The Navy shut down the Project ELF submarine radio transmission facilities in northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan on September 30...
...Without hesitation, the girls and boys instantly start painting animals, flowers, trees, and faces on the twenty-foot-high concrete wall...
...He sees their coffee as part of the fair trade community...
...To see more of Break the Silence's work, go to www.breakthesilencearts.org...
...From Guerrillas to Growers Colomba Costa Cuca, Guatemala Santa Anita La Union is a collective of thirty-three families growing organic coffee, bananas, and avocados on 100 acres in the mountains of the Pacific coast of Guatemala...
...For more information, contactNukewatch, P.O...
...Below me, Susan has begun handing out brushes and cups of bright primary colors to the dozen or so local children who live in the house facing the Wall...
...Box 649, Luck, WI54853...
...For more information, go to www.justcoffee.net...
...This was part of a mural project called Break the Silence...
...We've left behind the path of war," says member Rigoberto Augustin Ramirez...
...It's a coffee with a history, a coffee with a conscience—and it's an expression of solidarity...
...In response, ten hotels locked out their workers on October 1. Health care, wages, and the duration of the contract are the topics in dispute...
...And now we are on the path of work, of productivity...
...The website is www.nukewatch.com...
...We can pay better salaries to the workers...
...Reaching as high as I can, trembling on the top rungs of the ladder, I outline, in scarlet, the wings of an enormous tropical bird...
...For more information, go to www.unitehere.org...
...Project ELF was the Navy's one-way communications trigger for its nuclear-armed submarines...
...A hotel worker casts a vote on the strike...
...With a wingspan of ten feet, still wet, but drying fast in the noonday sun, the Firebird is born again with long-tailed plumage and is flying over the Wall, which, like all walls, will, in time, crumble and fall...
...The closing of the Extremely Low Frequency communications system is a victory for the anti-nuclear and environmental activists who targeted the site for years...
...They were able to acquire this land as part of the peace accords that ended the civil war eight years ago...
...Here's how Drooker described their work: "I leaned a rickety ladder against the Wall and climbed up, holding a jar of red acrylic in my left hand, a long bristle brush in my right, and got to work...
...Before becoming coffee growers, many were guerrillas in the Guatemala National Revolutionary Unity (URNG...
...On the Line Hotel Workers Strike San Francisco The contract between fourteen hotels and the hotel workers of UNITE HERE Local 2 in San Francisco expired in August, and the negotiations over a new contract were contentious...
...The hotel workers voted to go on a two-week strike at four hotels in San Francisco on September 29...
...Augustin supports fair trade, which, he says, "has a big impact on the families that form part of the cooperative...
...To see more of Eric Drooker s work, go to his website, www.drooker.com...

Vol. 68 • November 2004 • No. 11


 
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