"Welcome to One More Year" by Mikey Velarde, M.E.Ch.A. de Vassar
Hola a tod@s:
At this time last year El Sol del Este made its first appearance on the internet. The decision to depart from being a paper-based publication was made for several previously stated reasons.
Certainly, as climate change and other environmental issues become increasingly more urgent, we must begin to challenge ourselves to take up lifestyles and practices that radically diverge from our collective habits of prodigious waste. Though a blog is nowise a radical cure, it beats a mountain of papers that will likely be read once and end up in the trash.
Moreover, as I’ve already stated, the site’s utility comes in its fluidity and openness. Feel free to submit your work whenever you want. There has to be at least three issues, but there can of course be more. Perhaps we might also consult El Sol as an organizing resource. Post stuff to collaborate or get ideas. We, as members of a forum, should find communication pinnacle. In that regard, this publication should be exploited as our most basic and primary medium.
If we begin to consolidate our energies in this organization, we can become something powerful and dynamic. If we use El Sol as a way of doing so, then these words won’t be in vain. And at this time next year, whoever maintains it, might be saying something different.
Con cariño,
Mikey Velarde, M.E.Ch.A. de Vassar
ECCSF Executive Board for 2007-2008:
Rob Adelman, Williams College
Barbara Carrera, Cornell University
Alex Perez, Yale University
Mikey Velarde, Vassar College
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