Back to the Border

Back to the Border

On May 22nd Jenny Dale (Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition) and myself (Stephanie Dernek, 8th Day Center for Justice) will be heading back to the borderland in Tucson Arizona. We go to participate in the Migrant Trail Walk. As we mark the beginning of summer in the U.S. we also mark the beginning of the deadliest season in the desert especially in the Arizona sector of the U.S. and Mexico border.

The Migrant Trail: We Walk for Life May 25- 31, 2009

Our Vision:
The precarious reality of our borderlands calls us to walk. We walk together on a journey of peace to remember people, friends and family who have died, others who have crossed, and people who continue to come. We walk to bear witness to the tragedy of death and of the inhumanity in our midst. Lastly, we walk as a community, in defiance of the borders that attempt to divide us, committed to working together for the human dignity of all peoples.

If you can join us for the fifth annual 75-mile journey from Sásabe, Sonora to Tucson, Arizona in solidarity with our migrant sisters and brothers who have walked this trail and lost their lives. We bear witness to the lives that are lost, the families who mourn, and the communities that suffer the divisions that borders wreak on all of us.

Monday, May 25th, 2:00pm:
Sásabe, Sonora: Join us for the sending forth ceremony and the 4.8 mile walk to our first campsite on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge

Sunday, May 31, 11:30am:
Tucson, Arizona: Join us for the welcoming celebration as participants complete the 75-mile journey, bearing witness to the gauntlet of death that has claimed more than 5,000 men, women and children on the U.S.-México border.