This March is incredible. We are slogging through wetness, weariness, and worrisome conditions, to be sure. The tap water here is tinged brown and has inspired a soon-to-be-videoed skit about thirsty future generations asking for water and the community grandmothers responding by passing along the glass, each adding a pinch of pollutant. At the end of the line, the water given to the child is from the community well: is this what we want our legacy to be?
The People’s Climate March is coming up and most of the folks from the Great March for Climate Action will be headed to New York City to participate. Birdie and I will stay behind and watch the trucks, keeping the home fires burning for our mobile community. And one of our young Marchers, Kelsey Juliana, will be interviewed on Bill Moyer’s show about intergenerational theft of natural resources.
We are meeting lots of people and connecting dots as much as possible. I’m sorry I’ve been so bad about staying in touch with you while we’ve been on the road. Please know I keep you in my thoughts and in my heart.
Please spread word around Tucson that help is needed to keep us going. I’m about 60% of the way done with my fund-raising, and I need some financial help if you and our friends can spare it. John Jorgensen is in the same boat (read his letter below). Again, those donation sites are:
Mary’s Crowdrise page:
https://www.crowdrise.com/MaryDeCampPhoenix-DC
John’s Crowdrise page:
https://www.crowdrise.com/JohnJorgensenLA-DC
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I miss you and love you and hope to return to Tucson soon enough to help with the Peace Fair & Music Festival. I don’t know where I’ll end up living when I get there, but I’m trusting that the road will lead me where I should go.
Love & gratitude,
Mary