Bob Fitch photography archive -- Guerrero Azteca Peregrinación Por la Paz, Tijuana to San Francisco, 2006
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- The Guerrero Azteca Peace Project promotes peace, provides help to military families who have lost a loved one, and provides disadvantaged youths with scholarships and alternatives to military service. In March 2006, Guerrero Azteca embarked on a Peregrinación Por la Paz (March for Peace) beginning in Tijuana, Mexico and ending in San Francisco, California. The objective was to ensure that the Latino voice of opposition to the Iraq war was heard across the Americas. The distance of 241 miles (matching Gandhi's Salt March) was covered largely on foot, with rallies and participation in larger demonstrations (many concerning Latino civil rights and the anti-immigration bill HR 4437) along the way. March leaders were Fernando Suarez del Solar, Pablo Paredes, Camilo Mejia and Annabelle Valencia. Fernando was one of the first parents to lose a son in the Iraq war. Pablo and Camilo are military resistors from the Iraq War, and Annabelle's daughter served in the Army. The march was supported by Latino war veterans, military families, churches and community organizations in fifteen different urban and rural communities. Because of his prior work with the Latino community and draft resistance movement, Bob Fitch was invited to document the march.
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