Archive for August, 2009
Hope for the Poor: Vital Vitamins
Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless [...]
Posted in Life in Juarez, hopeTags: Chris Knott, Ciudad Juarez, Colonia Palo Chino, giving, hope, Matt and Misty Lindsey, poor, vitamins
August 25th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Greening the Ghetto: Street Art
I have made it my business to use the green economy as a social and economic solution to poverty. I want to Green the Ghetto.
Majora Carter
Back in February we began writing about Greening the Ghetto here in our own neighborhood in Juarez. Sure, it is a daunting prospect, but we are continuing to dream and work [...]
Posted in Life in Juarez, hopeTags: Ciudad Juarez, Greening the Ghetto, Jorge Hernandez, street art, The Desert, Violence in Juarez
August 17th, 2009 by mmlindsey
Lament por El Toro
Lament por El Toro
Poem by Michael E. Lindsey
The coyotes howl – their plaintive cry
echoes through the midnight sky.
We sit around the campfire light
and wonder of El Toro’s plight
of a life on the streets of this mean town
that’s ruined many a man and struck scores down.
Alas… would the settlers who built Juarez city
now feel any shame… [...]
August 8th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Dark Side of the River
Poverty is not the problem, it is the symptom. The problem is an inability to share and to distribute the wealth.
In 10 or 20 years, these kids roaming the streets will be the same kind of criminals we see here today. They will be killing and trying to smuggle drugs because they won’t see the [...]
Posted in Life in Juarez, Violence in JuarezTags: Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, Luis Fernando Cardenas, Newspaper Tree
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August 31st, 2009 by Misty Lindsey