A visit with VFP San Diego's Compassion Campaign
On a visit from San Francisco, Al Hunter joined members of the San Diego chapter to hand out sleeping bags as part of their Compassion Campaign
Border Report by Elliott Adams
Kathleen Hernandez and Elliott Adams spent a week working on the border at San Diego/Tijuana with Meta Peace Team. This report does not tell the appalling stories of the asylum seekers in the "caravans"; stories of the violence that forced them to run for their lives, the horrors of their month of walking through foreign hostile lands and the dangers in the camps hanging tenuously on to life.
Posada Without Borders
For 25 years the communities of Tijuana/San Diego, have come together at Friendship Park. This year members of the VFP Tijuana chapter participated.
Report on the NYC Save Our VA Town Hall
After several months of organizing including distributing almost 7,000 flyers about VA healthcare, the threat of privatization and advertising our Save Our VA Town Hall program on November 29 to veterans and staff at the Manhattan and Bronx VAs, we had our meeting last Thursday and it was a great success.
Distribution Day in Tijuana with Chapter 182
Members of the San Diego and Baja chapter have been procuring and distributing blankets and food to those asylum seekers remaining at the initial “camp” at Benito Juarez park