Bravo to Cesar Chavez Legacy Award Recipients in LA

cesar chavez awardsFighters for Justice help create a better world!

Con mucho gusto envio esta nota sobre el evento el 26 de Marzo en Los Angeles!!!!
With much joy I send you this note about the event on March 26 in LA!!!!

Thanks for being there and believing in what I do and what I believe! Gracias por estar aqui y creer en lo que hago y en lo que creo!!!

Muchos abrazos!!!

Mily

New Writing Job

Congratulations to RDLN graduate (Group 7) Meredith McGee, who has a new writing assignment.  She will be doing about five pieces for the Jackson Advocate newspaper during women’s history month (March), and some of the features she writes will cover RDLN women.  
 
This assignment complements her ongoing work as owner of Typing Solutions, which provides  business services and editing, and owner of Meredith Etc., her publishing company.  Of course, she is an author too!  (Textbook:  James Meredith: Warrior and the America that Created Him (biography), Odyssey (poems and other  writings), Married to Sin (oral history of a dysfunctional family) and the Spanish translation Casada al Pecado (co-author). 
 
Starry
 
Starry Krueger
Rural Development Leadership Network
P.O. Box 98 Prince St. Station
New York, NY 10012
(212)777-9137/(212)477-0367 (Fax)
rdln@ruraldevelopment.org

their votes would count, their lives would matter

Poet Meredith Coleman McGee wrote the verse, “their votes would count, their lives would matter,” in the mid 1990s, and today people of color are still seeking judicial equality in America, a democratic society.

Odyssey is a collection of poems and writings by Poet Meredith Coleman McGee https://meredithetc.com/odyssey/

Chapter 2 Something Inspiring

She Dreamed Before She Woke 

A verse of this poem is below:

She dreamed their votes would count, their lives would matter, their children would have a bright future, that the schools would be filled with learning, that the children would press for success, desire to learn their history, and never repeat the poor mystery.