Re: RAINBOW PEACE CARAVAN sends an S.O.S to its friends

   Dear Linda, 

      Thanks much for forwarding this message. I will forward to Peace 

   Activists I know in my area and others. Will send what I can.La Caravana

   is a sincere and beautiful effort, and deserves not only to be supported but

   to be replicated by many other people all over our precious Earth, to 

   facilitate a gentle birth of the New Age.

                                        Peace

                                         Moon


> Read this message in Spanish at:
> http://www.lacaravana.org/condor/sos_span.html
> 
> Greetings to all of you, personal friends and 
> supporters from the CARAVANA ARCOIRIS por la PAZ, 
> on the beginning of this new gregorian year, 2004.
> 
> Hoping to find all of you well, renewed, and full 
> of visions for the coming cycle, I have decided 
> to send all of you an S.O.S in behalf of this 
> project. La Caravana is in its seventh year of 
> existence travelling and doing the unique work of 
> environmental education, entertainment for peace, 
> defence of traditional nations and networking of 
> alternatives through the Americas.
> 
> The Caravan has crossed borders of thirteen 
> different countries, done hundreds of 
> presentations, workshops, festivals, conferences, 
> audiovisuals and special events in the most 
> remote indigenous communities from Central 
> America, the Caribbean and South America, in 
> rural and urban villages and cities and in most 
> capitals from the countries we visited in what is 
> now a journey of more than seven years
> 
> Some of you may have also heard, that on our way 
> to the gathering, on the night of August 24th, we 
> had a terrible accident on the mountains near 
> Nasca, that fortunately did not cost us any human 
> loss, but left us with only one of our two buses. 
> The Suenito, the largest one, the one that 
> carried most of our crew, the kitchen, the 
> theater equipment, and that also pulled the 
> trailer with the huge Circus Rainbow Tent was 
> totaled in the accident. We had no insurance. A 
> lot of our equipment was also destroyed or had to 
> be given away, because we did not have the 
> possibility to carry it anymore. We also incurred 
> in a debt of $5000 US with the owner of a truck 
> that was also partially destroyed in the accident 
> when our bus was without brakes and hit the truck 
> before smashing against the mountain. That saved 
> our lives, leaving 10 people bruised and shocked, 
> and half of our infrastructure gone in a couple 
> of minutes.
> 
> With big pains, lots of expenses and work, we 
> have been able to reach the north of Chile, and 
> are at this moment camped at the city of Iquique, 
> trying to figure a way to get back in our wheels 
> again to continue our journey, and to continue 
> our work in view of the coming international 
> Vision Council that will take place in Brasil in 
> 2005, that we are coordinating with the brasilian 
> groups representing many social and spiritual 
> movements trying to build a better world and 
> future for those to come.
> 
> We were able to construct in December a trailer 
> that will be our mobile kitchen, equipped with 
> the solar panels and batteries to provide energy 
> to the whole Caravan, but we need to acquire a 
> used vehicle to pull the trailer, and to find a 
> second trailer to carry the Circus tent and the 
> theater equipment. We also, after more than 7 
> years travelling, need to change the engine of 
> our second bus to diesel, as the costs of 
> gasoline in South America are taking most of our 
> earnings. So, at this point, the Caravan is going 
> through a mobility crisis, and this is the reason 
> we are asking you to help us out, so we can 
> continue a work, that few people are doing on the 
> planet, and that we feel is worth continuing.
> 
> According to the prices of vehicles here in 
> Chile, we have calculated that we need to raise 
> $30,000 dollars to get back to where we were last 
> August, before the accident, and this is the 
> reason we are sending this SOS ... in order to 
> hear from all of you, receive your advice, your 
> donations, your ideas or leads as to how and 
> where and to whom we should direct our request to 
> get help for that purpose.
> 
> We have a bank account, and will be really 
> thankful for any donation you can send, if you 
> can and if you think the Caravana should continue 
> its journey to the Tierra del Fuego, as we 
> promised we would in 1996 when we departed from 
> our ecovillage in Mexico, Huehuecoyotl.
> The account number is: 1199202749 under the name 
> of Alberto Ruz Buenfil, BANCOMER, Sucursal 5653, 
> Tepoztlan Centro, Morelos-México.
> I want to thank you in advance, for your 
> interest, for your friendship, for your previous 
> and present support, and for the work that you 
> are all doing in your own places for the 
> Earth.
> 
> All Our Relations
> El Subcoyote Alberto Ruz  <subcoyotealberto-/[email protected]>
> 
> P.S.
> In the coming couple of months, my new book HAY 
> TANTOS CAMINOS (So Many Roads) will be published 
> in Mexico by Editorial COLOFON. A collection of 
> short stories from the first 6 years of the 
> journey. Those of you who would like to get a 
> copy, please let me know to start making a list 
> for the publishers. I would also send a 
> complimentary copy to all donors for the 
> Caravan's vehicles.
Caravan's vehicles.





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