Dear friends and supporters,

The confiscation was not possible, but we will continue fighting for justice and denouncing government’s corruption as long as we need to do it for getting justice.

The major difficulty on this struggle is to fight at the same time against an alliance of government bureaucrats, company’s owners, white union leaders and white-collar ex-workers who refuse to recognize our right to severance payment even thought we were exploited by the company for years.

We don’t loose our faith, though, and our morale is high because we know we are not alone and some of you are behind us and go with us making stronger our struggle. We are united, and when you answer our solidarity calls you made possible for us to open new ways to fight. Yes, justice has not been made, but we have gotten a lot more.

Thank all of you for your supporting letters, for spreading information about our struggle, for protesting with us, for your financial support.

When we faced the confiscation we realized we would need about $2,200 dollars, unaffordable amount for us who are maquiladora workers; however, we were very surprised that after asking for solidarity we were able to get more than $1,500 dollars in less than two weeks. Thank you very much.

We also received a lot of encouraging friendly letters from Mexico City, Ciudad Juarez, Coahuila, New Laredo, San Antonio TX, Brasil, Cuba and Argentina.

When we had to face the Labor Board president together with us were Cittac (Workers’ Information Center), the Colectiva Feminista Binacional, the Zapatista Front, the Colectivo Chilpancingo for Environmental Justice, Group Los Niños, Poblado Maclovio Rojas, Street Light of San Diego, and the San Diego Maquiladora Workers’ Solidarity Network.

Thank you to all of you and we apologize if we are omitting somebody else.

We have not confiscated the company, yet we had to spend more than $500 dollars. We would like to know if we could keep the rest of money you donated. We will use it to pay our struggle’s current expenses and save it for a future action: we hope we will be able to confiscate the factory in 2005. If you need your money back, please let us know it.

As we wrote above, we will continue fighting for justice and denouncing government’s corruption as long as we need to do it for getting justice.

Again, thank you. Have a have a happy end of the year along with your beloved ones and with all of us who fight for fair causes and hope that more triumphs will come the next year.

We will be in touch with you.

Sincerely,

Manuel Gil, Miguel Rodríguez, Rocío Salas and Margarita Avalos: Industria Fronteriza Workers’ Coalition Pro Justice