CrowdFund Memorial and Laptop Story Telling Project Started in Honor of Alfonso Texidor - La Leyenda De La Misión:
Many of you know our friend, Alfonso Texidor. Most recently he was
a columnist for El Tecolote Newspaper in the Mission District of San
Franciso. He was my friend and a bit of a Mentor.
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| Alfonso Texidor - La Leyenda de la Mision! |
I was working on getting him a laptop to write His Life Story with,
when he passed away this Christmas Day, December 25, 2014.
Truth be told, I've been crying all day, in part for losing such a
friend; in part losing such a community treasure and because I feel
guilty, like if I could have gotten the laptop together for him faster,
maybe he would still be here... typing his story for us all to read.
Like all the negatives that come my way in this life, this sadness in
my heart is being transformed, with your help, into something that may
absolve me of guilty feelings and be of tremendous benefit to us all and
to our children and their children.
Alfonso's
life was vast. He lived in New York in the 60's during the riots and was
as radical as being an original member of the break away group known as
'Up Against The Wall MotherFucker', notorious for community support and
advocacy.
He was also a poet, story teller and
made me and my peers laugh, almost every day at El Cafetazo. He would
play devils advocate and tell us our lawsuits against the City in the
Supreme Court and all the rabblerousing and shelter standards of care
laws, etc., wouldn't change nuthin!
We think he did that to push us into fighting harder and more fiercely with more conviction.
As Tribute to what this man has brought to our brothers and sisters
on the East Coast & The West Coast, we're organizing a two fold
Memorial Fund in his Honorable Name.
The 1st goal is to have a wake or tribute to him and feed our fellow poets, rabblerousers with.
The 2nd goal is to create an ongoing fund to purchase used laptops and
get them into the hands of our beloved elderly, disabled and other folks
with stories to tell.
As I've painfully learned
in this ordeal with Alfonso, time waits for no one, so, the faster we
can fund laptops for all the poor folks in need of laptops and support
to learn how to use word processing programs... the faster we can
increase our awareness of our own people & history, from the minds
and hearts of the folks around us who are walking history books that
don't lie.
PLEASE SHARE TO ALL POETS, WRITERS, RABBLEROUSERS, ADVOCATES & ACTIVISTS.
CROWDFUNDING NOTE:
Since we're already testing CrowdFunding for several of our other
projects (fraud, cannabis, cell phone drivers, mortgage fraud, et al.)
we're going to ALSO post funds in Alfonso's Name, in order to see how
well one fund site does or operates over another and publish the
results.
Also, we have an attorney working
with us and will set up a web site for all donors of all our funding
projects to go to to SEE exactly how their donation was spent, with real
life stories, pictures and video where possible, etc.
BLESS YOU ALL!
MAY ALFONSO REST IN PEACE AS WE CONTINUE TO HONOR & REMEMBER HIM.
s/James Leonard
SF Community Advocate
Former SF Shelter Monitoring Committee Member (for ID only)
sfawareness@gmail.com
Here
is supposed to be an embedded link to the GiveForward CrowdFunding Site
for Accepting Your Donations for this Memorial - Project.
If it fails, we'll post a better one later today.
CLICK HERE TO DONATE OR USE THE GIVING FORM BELOW:
https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/gs47/story-teller-memorial-for-alfonso-texidor-la-leyenda-de-la-mision
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