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mail, odds and ends
sun 3 june 2012 |
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One of those daily projects included my postcards. Altho I kept on top of all the exchanges I signed up for and am obligated to, I did not print up and send my usual monthly postcards to everyone on my personal list. Even so, I managed to send out over 70 bits of mail! ha! I did not give up my Amnesty International letter writing. I am part of the Urgent Action Network, and I write letters of protest every weekend.
This weekend, the action that was emailed to me was 25 people in Espinar were protesting mining operations and were detained and beaten by police. They were let go, but they are all under investigation under false pretenses. The mayor of Espinar criticized the current agreement between the government and the mining company, and he was also arrested and held without charge. I had already written my protest letters when I read the newspaper this morning. There was a tiny article on the last page of the front section:
Peruvian mayor jailed over protest Messed Up! And, yeah, I am inclined to believe Amnesty International (which provides two pages of information about the situation and talks about the excessive force used by the police against the protestors) ... and not believe a two sentence press release. It is a good reminder of why I am writing these letters. And a happier, mail-related article in today's paper: ∞ Graduates hear from themselves By Bob Welch A local fourth/fifth-grade teacher has his students (age 9 and 10) write a letter to their future self. The teacher delivers the letters to his students when they graduate high school (around age 17 or 18). Wow. What kinds of things would you say to yourself, ten years down the line??! |
| Tag: june, mailings |
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