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.
 |
| 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
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
No comments:
Post a Comment