Mexico Solidarity and Action (MESA)

Welcome to our site! You'll find extensive information here about how Maryknoll Lay Missioners working in Mexico have joined efforts to form an integrated response to poverty which we call Mexico Solidarity and Action - MESA. "Mesa" means "table" in Spanish. The MESA we create here is a round table to which all are invited. Pull up your chair to MESA.

Special Times - Urgency - Integrated Response

We live in special times. Elder campesinos (farmers) in Oaxaca notice that migrating birds are arriving in February when they normally arrive in May. Corn genetically-altered in high tech US labs threatens local varieties of Mexican corn cultivated and nurtured for as long as 9000 years. Scientists and even the Pentagon report that our world's industrial emissions will bring about climate changes making large parts of the inhabited world unfit for human life. The gap between the rich and poor in Mexico and throughout the world increases. The quality of life for all, and especially for the poor, continues to deteriorate. Humanity has faced prior calamites, but never before on a global scale. The poverty in Mexico mirrors the poverty in Thailand and Kenya and elsewhere as a visible symptom of the fundamental problem affecting all.

Our site informs you about what is happening here in Mexico and how what happens here reflects alarming global trends which impact all of our lives.

We invite you to join us, building life with dignity in Mexico.

We're happy to announce and invite you to read The Other Game: Lessons from How Life is Played in Mexican Villages. Released April 2008. By Maryknoll Lay Missioners Phil Dahl-Bredine and Stephen Hicken. 191 pages. Click the link to order