Important Announcements

CURRENT INFORMATION: go to our Facebook group "Waco Friends of the Climate." 1) Beginning Jan. 2025, our focus has been on resistance to Donald Trump, since his policies are our greatest threat to the climate. Thus, we are not having monthly meetings at this time. We hope to hold monthly meetings in the future. Visit our Facebook group for current activities, Waco Friends of the Climate. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1330231820335851 2) Our role in the resistance includes a weekly protest at the pedestrian bridge in Waco, Valley Mills Dr. & Bagby Avenue, each Sunday, 1:00pm-2:30pm. We began the protest in March 2025 and it has been carried on weekly for over one year. We provide huge, highly visible banners. Please join us. RESISTING FASCISM, ONE SUNDAY AT A TIME. 3) Because of the sad passing of our webmaster, Harrison Ward, we have not been able to keep the website up to date. For the most current information, please visit our Facebook group, Waco Friends of the Climate : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1330231820335851 4) To join our email list and be informed of actions, activities, and campaigns, email our Director Alan Northcutt at anorthc@aol.com 5)Free "climate crisis is here" yard signs may be obtained by emailing anorthc@aol.com. Delivery of signs is available. Help raise awareness of the climate crisis, deeply needed in Waco. 6) Winners of the "Sixth Annual Climate Crisis Art Exhibit" may be found in the Archives, April 2023. Some incredible climate art may be viewed.
ERNESTO FRAGA LECTURE
Thursday, February 14th
Poppa Rollo's Pizza
West-bank Meeting Room
703 N. Valley Mills Drive
6:00 pm - Pizza Buffet
6:30 pm - Ernesto Fraga Lecture & Discussion


The Waco FOP are excited to present a lecture by Mr. Ernesto Fraga, publisher of the TIEMPO Newspaper, on The Chicano Struggle For Justice. 

In light of the recent presidential election that credits the Latino vote as being pivotal in present and future elections, there is a need for a greater understanding of the Chicano struggle that paved the way for today's realities. Chicanos have a 500 year history of struggling for justice since the Spanish conquest. Waco's TIEMPO Newspaper is a product of the Chicano movement for self determination that has dealt with the land struggle, bringing our history into the classrooms, immigration reform, police brutality, equal representation, political prisoners, Mexico/Central America, and coalition building with other movements for generations. This presentation will bring to light what has not been heard in mainstream media and our own history books. It's a story of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Ernesto Fraga:
Co-Founder of Chicano newspapers of the 1960s and 70s
The Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO)
The Raza Unida Party
The Brown Berets
Committee for the Defense of Latino Immigrants
Currently National PR Chairman of Free Ramsey Muniz Committee


March 23-24, 2013

JAMES O'DEA speaks on "CULTIVATING PEACE."
The Waco FOP are part of a Waco coalition of peace groups sponsoring these talks.  Please plan to be there.  Details to follow.


April 25, 2013 - Date Change

THE PEOPLE'S RESPONSE to the George W. Bush Library and Policy Institute Opening
A Commission on Peace, Justice and Reconciliation.  Join us for this massive protest.  Details to follow.

Email to anorthc@aol.com to be placed on the Friends of Peace email list.     



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