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February 4, 2010
Rights Action – with tax-charitable status in the USA and Canada – funds community-controlled development, environmental, human rights and emergency-relief projects in Guatemala, Honduras, Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico) and El Salvador, and does education and activism work with North Americans to address global exploitation, repression, enviro-destruction and racism.

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"The weight of nothing"

"Tell me the weight of a snowflake", a coal-mouse asked a wild dove.
"Nothing more than nothing", was the answer.
"In that case, I must tell you a marvellous story" the coal-mouse said. "I sat on the branch of a fir tree, close to its trunk, when it began to snow, not heavily, not in a raging blizzard, no, just like in a dream, without any violence. Since I didn't have anything else to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and branch. Their number was exactly 3,741,952. When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch - nothing more than nothing, as you say - the branch broke off". Having said that, the coal-mouse flew away.
The dove, since Noah's time an authority on the matter, thought about the story for a while, and finally said to herself "perhaps there is only one person's voice lacking for peace and justice to come about in the world".

- from The Never Ending by Grahame Russell

RECENT INFORMATION ALERTS:

· 2010, February: Guatemala - Goldcorp, Inc. Linked to Capture of Gregoria Crisanta Perez, an impoverished Mayan WomanWho Was Then Liberated by the Local Population

· 2010, Educational Delegation to Guatemala, April17-25. 2010 - Mining Companies Versus Comunity Development,Environmental Justice and Human Rights

· 2010, January: Honduras - The Two Honduras: 300,000 Hondurans March

· 2010, January: Haiti Earthquake Report - Appeal #11 - More on Devastating Earthquake

· 2010, January: Haiti Earthquake Report - Appeal #10 - More on Devastating Earthquake

· 2010, January: Rights Action Honors the Life of Howard Zinn and Gives Thanks for His Work and Caring

· 2010, January: Honduras - Rebuilding the Garifuna People's Radio Station

· 2010, January: Guatemala - Systemic Injustice and Impunity, Part 2

· 2010, January: Make a Tax-Deductible Contribution Now - 2009 Rights Action Summary and Highlights

RECENT INFORMATION ALERTS:

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