Ciudad Hermana
The mission of Ciudad Hermana is to support the people of El Sauce,
Nicaragua by means of political solidarity and humanitarian assistance.
Our support efforts include the Pregnant Cow Project, which enables
women to work toward self-sufficiency by getting loans to buy cows
and chickens. Within Rochester, we educate the community through
lectures, a newsletter and our web site, which is www.pregnantcow.com.
We meet the fourth Thursday of every month at St. Anne Church at
1600 Mount Hope Ave. For more information or to get involved, contact
Tim McMahon at mcmahong@frontiernet.net
or Patricia Corcoran at pcorc@aol.com.
Peace Action & Education (PA&E)
PA&E was established to continue coordinating Rochester’s
peace and anti-war work. Our mission is coalition building with
local and national peace groups, education, and strategic campaigns
and initiatives. We are an affiliate of the national organization
Peace Action and a founding member of the Rochester Against War
(RAW) coalition, which is actively opposing military recruitment
in local schools and colleges and providing support to war resisters,
military families and veterans. We have organized numerous rallies
and marches, and we have coordinated several bus caravans from Rochester
to Washington, DC and New York City in solidarity with national
calls to action. For more information or to get involved, contact
Doug Noble at 442-3383 or at jaria9295@aol.com.
Visit the website.
Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA)
Education, action and support are at the heart of ROCLA. We provide
information on Latin America that is not presented in the mainstream
media. We participate in the Pastors for Peace Caravan, which brings
medical supplies, athletic equipment and school items to Cuba. We
support Latin American political prisoners and speak out against
human rights abuses. We support several groups working in Latin
America, as well as groups helping to build a movement to change
US policy toward Latin America. Our general meeting is on the first
Wednesday of every month at 7:00pm at the Downtown Presbyterian
Church at 121 North Fitzhugh St. For more information or to get
involved, contact Bob Kaiser at 293-3194. To subscribe to our new
E-Alert Update on the Americas, go to our "contact page"
at www.rocla.org
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