On Friday, September 23, 2016, at the American Legion Hall in Leonia, CoFiA will hold a fund-raising party. We will present three bands, lots of good food, raffles, socializing, dancing and wonderful crafts from Guatemala to purchase. Why a party called "Fiesta Justicia?" For many years CoFiA and our friends have worked to improve the lives of immigrants in Eastern Bergen County, and have also worked to improve U.S. immigration policy. Yet in 2016 prospects for improvement, both here in and Guatemala--aqui y alla, here and there--are dim. Candidates for the presidency of the U.S. are proposing either vicious anti-immigrant tactics or no strategies for real improvement. In Guatemala conditions are so grim that more than 20,000 indigenous country people marched for up to 159 miles, over 12 days, to plead with their Congress and ... Read more