Comments on: Posterizing a license plate (a fundraiser for Nicaragua Family Support Fund) https://bill-horne.net/2020/06/15/posterizing-a-license-plate-a-fundraiser-for-nicas-in-exile/ art by Bill Horne Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:48:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Barbara M. Hay https://bill-horne.net/2020/06/15/posterizing-a-license-plate-a-fundraiser-for-nicas-in-exile/#comment-13600 Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:48:37 +0000 http://bill-horne.net/?p=2469#comment-13600 Hello Bill (and Claire) I did finally get to your web site and am anxious for next Wednesday when I can pick up my memento plate from you.
I was particularly happy to see Randy is an old solidarity fellow from the days of the Revolution. I wonder how many of us there are that have those memories. I see Randy on f.b. as a Site C opposer, like me and 47 of us who took that amazing bus trip up to the paddle. But so see Randy as one of us, who spent time in Nicaragua, the brotherhood/sisterhood just gets richer and richer.
I was in my early forties when I was there, first in 86/87 for 3 months, then in 1989 to 1991 and worked in the street kids school, the women’s centres in a couple barrios, and supporting a farm co-op on Ometepe from where we purchase their crops annually.
I met so many wonderful folks who made major life changes to go there in the 80’s from all over the planet.
That was a very rich part of my life and I am so delighted to get a memento from Bill and Claire of my time there, and to make a small contribution to our friends in exile.
Warmest regards and solidarity with the people,
~~Barbara

]]> By: Bill Horne https://bill-horne.net/2020/06/15/posterizing-a-license-plate-a-fundraiser-for-nicas-in-exile/#comment-31 Tue, 16 Jun 2020 05:18:20 +0000 http://bill-horne.net/?p=2469#comment-31 In reply to randyhadland.

Thanks so much, Randy – that means a lot to us!

]]> By: randyhadland https://bill-horne.net/2020/06/15/posterizing-a-license-plate-a-fundraiser-for-nicas-in-exile/#comment-30 Tue, 16 Jun 2020 04:44:04 +0000 http://bill-horne.net/?p=2469#comment-30 I think this is vey cool. If it wasn’t just us old farts who were down there in the day, and remember, I think this would make a great rallying cry. ‘Nicaragua, 79!’ As it is I hope it raises good cash for the manos des hermanos. If they don’t sell right away I would like to help and hang one of those on my wall. but let people with cash have first shot. 🙂 Randy

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 04:26:53 +0000, art by Bill Horne wrote: > WordPress.com > > Bill Horne posted: ” One day during our year working in Nicaragua, > Claire found an old license plate in a ditch in Managua. It was from > 1979, the year the Nicaraguan people overthrew the dictator Somoza, so > she set it aside. Fabricated in the blue and white of the country” > >

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