Maya-Mennonite Solidarity Trip to Maya Seed Festival in Yucatán, Mexico

Those of us going on this delegation (May 9-16, 2024) at the invitation of the Maya community hosting this Seed Festival were asked why it was important to us to be going.

I said this:

I’m filled with gratitude for this very special invitation of solidarity from the Colectivo In Laak Le Ixiimó (CILLI) to come to their home community as they gather in this sacred festival space to remember, honor and protect their sibling, the corn.  I know I will grow in love as a human as I learn from them more of my own relationship to seeds and with that my growing responsibility to protect the wellbeing of what our Maya friends call Yook’ol Kab (the land-water interrelationship that sustains our world).  

You can read more here about what the others on this delegation shared, as well as learn a little more about the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery which is sending us and Colectivo In Laak Le Ixiimó (CILLI), the repair partner that has invited and will be hosting us.