La Mujer Obrera

09/10/2025

“Celia dedicated her time as an advocate for La Mujer Obrera, a cause she held close to her heart and took immense pride in supporting. Her compassion, generosity, and unwavering strength inspired everyone who knew her.

Celia will forever be remembered for her boundless love, her resilience, and her devotion to family above all else. Though her presence will be deeply missed, her legacy lives on through the countless memories, traditions, and values she instilled in those she loved. She leaves behind a lasting reminder of unity, compassion, and the enduring power of family.”

Funeral Services for Celia:
Hillcrest Funeral Home at
1060 N. Carolina
Thursday, Sept 11,2025 from 5-9pm
Rosary is 7-8pm

Funeral on Friday September 12, 2025 at St. Paul the Apostle Church at 10:00 am
7424 Mimosa Ave (79915)

Interment to follow to Mt Carmel Cemetery.

Celebrate the life of Celia Garcia Rodriguez, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Hillcrest Funeral Home.

09/04/2025

Con mucho dolor y pesar avisamos que nuestra compañera Celia Rodríguez falleció miércoles 3 de septiembre. Estuvo al frente de la lucha de La Mujer Obrera por más de 30 años. Nos acompañó siempre en crear una vida digna para las trabajadoras de fábrica y la comunidad de El Chamizal.



Nos enseñó a enfrentar momentos difíciles con paciencia y cariño. En la organización ayudó a miles de trabajadores en sus tiempos más difíciles, cuando fuimos desplazadas de las fábricas por NAFTA sin ningún recurso. Celia nos guio y apoyó para encontrar algo de estabilidad en tiempos tan desconcertantes. Con su incansable esfuerzo contribuyó al legado que dejaron las costureras a las siguientes generaciones.

Es difícil explicar lo que sentimos, tenemos el corazón roto, nos sentimos desamparadas, no hay palabras. Pero sabemos que todas las personas que la conocieron nos comprenderán.

07/17/2025

04/16/2025

We made our goal! Thank you all for your donations to La Mujer Obrera’s patronicity fundraising campaign to Support Environmental Justice for Youth in Barrio Chamizal. Your generous donations will make a significant impact as we work to create nature-based green spaces for children to use their imagination, explore, learn, and build resiliency in barrio Chamizal, on the US/Mex border. Your donation went even further, as it was multiplied with the 4:1 matching gift from the Partnership for Resilient Communities’ contribution.

La Mujer Obrera’s vision for the children of the Chamizal community is to have an alternative to concrete playgrounds to provide them with a space to seek refuge from high temperatures and environmental contaminants that define most of their neighborhood’s landscape. Our program aims to create spaces to help us connect to nature and promote environmentally conscious minds to understand our ecosystem and the role we play in it, creating a shared space where mutual respect for the land and ourselves guides our actions and thoughts. Through these experiences the children of our neighborhood develop cognitive, socio-emotional, and physical skills while strengthening their cultural identity and connection to land. This helps give neighborhood children the tools to prepare them for the challenges they face. Together we can change our world's perspective, helping to see how by planting seeds in the earth, we are also planting seeds of resilience for Barrio Chamizal.

We are so grateful for your support and hope you will consider staying connected by visiting our website: www.mujerobrera.org. Thank you for your continued support!

03/24/2025

We have 7 DAYS LEFT to reach our goal.

We have a great opportunity to bring in important funding for our environmental justice youth programming. Any and all donations made before March 31, 2025 will be matched 4:1 by the Institute for Sustainable Communities to create nature-based green spaces for children in barrio Chamizal on the US/Mex border.

SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR YOUTH IN BARRIO CHAMIZAL

Donate today @ Patronicity.com/LaMujerObrera
Thank you for your support!

In the face of challenging conditions, we work to embrace the strengths of our community in order to build the neighborhood we deserve. We are responding to the reality that our neighborhood schools & residential areas do not have buffers between the industrial areas, which exposes our children to contamination. Support our efforts to create nature-based green spaces for children to use their imagination, explore, learn, and build resiliency in barrio Chamizal. Children are absorbing the world around them, and when we position their growing experience alongside nature, they are absorbing the importance of their relationship to the earth, to co-exist in our ecosystem. This connection is a critical aspect of childhood, helping youth to develop cognitive skills like problem-solving, decision-making, processing, retaining information, and maintaining focus. Together, we can change our world's perspective, helping everyone to see how by planting seeds in the earth, we are also planting seeds of resilience for Barrio Chamizal.

https://www.patronicity.com/project/support_environmental_justice_for_youth_in_barrio_chamizal

To create nature-based green spaces for children to use their imagination, explore, learn, and build resiliency in barrio Chamizal, on the US/Mex border.

02/27/2025

SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR YOUTH IN BARRIO CHAMIZAL

We have a great opportunity to bring in important funding for our environmental justice youth programming. Any and all donations made before March 31, 2025 will be matched 4:1 by the Institute for Sustainable Communities to create nature-based green spaces for children in barrio Chamizal on the US/Mex border.

Donate today @ Patronicity.com/LaMujerObrera
Thank you for your support!

In the face of challenging conditions, we work to embrace the strengths of our community in order to build the neighborhood we deserve. We are responding to the reality that our neighborhood schools & residential areas do not have buffers between the industrial areas, which exposes our children to contamination. Support our efforts to create nature-based green spaces for children to use their imagination, explore, learn, and build resiliency in barrio Chamizal. Children are absorbing the world around them, and when we position their growing experience alongside nature, they are absorbing the importance of their relationship to the earth, to co-exist in our ecosystem. This connection is a critical aspect of childhood, helping youth to develop cognitive skills like problem-solving, decision-making, processing, retaining information, and maintaining focus. Together, we can change our world's perspective, helping everyone to see how by planting seeds in the earth, we are also planting seeds of resilience for Barrio Chamizal.

https://www.patronicity.com/project/support_environmental_justice_for_youth_in_barrio_chamizal

To create nature-based green spaces for children to use their imagination, explore, learn, and build resiliency in barrio Chamizal, on the US/Mex border.

03/13/2024

“Mi mayor sueño es que quiten las ‘trocas’ (tractocamiones y tráileres) del puente ‘Libre’ para que ya no nos estemos enfermando”, dijo el niño Francisco Torres, de siete años de edad y alumno del segundo grado de la Escuela Primaria Frederick Douglass.

Torres formó parte de un grupo de activistas, adheridos a la organización Familias Unidas del Chamizal, quienes exigieron a los representantes de la Ciudad, adoptar una posición sobre el retiro de los camiones en ese puerto de entrada, ahora que el Gobierno federal proyecta actualizar la tecnología, reducir los tiempos de espera y disminuir la contaminación.

A nombre de sus compañeros de clase, y al igual que sus padres y vecinos, el pequeño clamó a las autoridades para que atiendan la problemática mientras exhibía una pancarta con la leyenda “¡Fuera! ¡No trocas!”, con la esperanza de que la lucha comunitaria cristalice en una justicia ambiental.

Integrantes de la agrupación Familias Unidas del Chamizal se manifestaron en la reunión ordinaria de la Ciudad para expresar su rechazo al tráfico comercial internacional en su vecindario

02/14/2024

We ♥️ barrio Chamizal. Show us your love and protect our health. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS TO NEPA BY/BEFORE FRIDAY, FEB. 23, 2024, 3PM (MST) to: BOTA.NEPACOMMENTS@GSA.GOV

We will be collecting comment cards to hand-deliver, too. Please come by Cafe Mayapan, 2000 Texas Ave. to fill out your card

We have not had clean air for 30 years! Protect our health. Tell NEPA to "Get the Trucks Out!"
El Paso's Puente Libre- The Bridge of the Americas in barrio Chamizal is receiving $700+million of federal Bipartisan Infrastructure funding for necessary renovations. This long-overdue investment should be used as intended- to reduce the emissions and address the impact on overburdened, vulnerable communities, specifically, our children’s health.

It's a public health issue. Lives are being affected. To dismiss the health of residents and prioritize industry is not acceptable.”

SAMPLE TEXT: Dear NEPA: (Introduce yourself) My name is ######x and I am very concerned about the health of my community. (Highlight concern) Barrio Chamizal has heavy semi truck traffic is a public heatlh issue causing dangerous levels of pollution. (Personal is Powerful!) My child has difficulty breathing and suffers from asthma. (Demand) Get the Trucks Out, Now! Protect our Health! We urge NEPA to select Option #4: REMOVAL OF COMMERCIAL TRUCKS. (*Extra: Ask Questions) Will NEPA'S Environmental Impact Statement include a Cumulative Impact or Health Analysis? Thank you. Sincerely, ######

02/14/2024

“It’s a public health issue. Lives are being affected,” said Cemelli de Aztlan, a community organizer with La Mujer Obrera, an El Paso organization committed to empowering working women of Mexican heritage. She worries that local leaders aren’t doing enough to elevate the concerns of its most vulnerable residents. “To dismiss the health of residents and prioritize [industry] is not acceptable.”

In light of the federal push to revamp the Bridge of the Americas, some residents say commercial vehicles shouldn’t be using the bridge in the first place given that it’s located so close to homes, schools and churches in a historically disadvantaged neighborhood. For activists like De Aztlan who have been living with the environmental impacts of trucks coming in and out of their communities for years, the goal is clear.

“Get the trucks out,” De Aztlan said.

Neighbors want to ‘get the trucks out’ as the idling vehicles choke the air, causing a public health concern in the historically disadvantaged area

01/29/2024

—- F O R I M M E D I A T E R E L E A S E —-
BARRIO CHAMIZAL RESIDENTS URGE CITY COUNCIL: G E T T H E T R U C K S O U T !

EL PASO, TEXAS- ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2024 Familias Unidas del Chamizal will urge El Paso City Council to Take Action (AGENDA #19) and support residents' demand to get the commercial trucks out of el puente libre- the Bridge of the Americas. Barrio residents have cited serious health and environmental concerns and are asking the El Paso City Council to protect children's health and place a very high priority in communities like ours where environmental injustice has deadly and debilitating consequences. ‘The effects are forever.’

Our neighborhood is subjected to various sources of pollution, the Cumulative Impacts are compounded by concerning health vulnerabilities. Our neighborhood bears many burdens, to include: a major international port-of-entry overloaded w/ diesel trucks emitting high levels of cancerous pollutants; a public school bus terminal of over 150 school buses; industrial waste recycling facilities shredding metals, electronics, and batteries in out-dated & open-air lots; in addition to the 12+ fires/year that erupt from those industrial waste sites. There is an overload of environmental injustice in our neighborhood affecting our children's health.

The residents of Barrio Chamizal demand: ‘Get the trucks out of the Puente Libre!’ The trucks are the highest contributors to diesel particulate matter (see map below) and should be re-routed out of our thriving neighborhood of 7,000+ residents. Our Puente Libre- The Bridge of the Americas is the only toll-free international port of entry because it was intended for the people, not the maquiladora industry. Today, El Puente Libre is the second busiest port-of-entry along the border; and despite years of overuse, the maquiladora industry does not contribute to the maintenance of the bridge, roads and infrastructure they readily overuse.

El Paso’s Bridge of the Americas, El Puente Libre in our neighborhood, is receiving $700+ million of federal Bipartisan Infrastructure funding for necessary renovations. This long-overdue investment should be used as intended- to reduce the carbon footprint and address the impact on overburdened, vulnerable communities, specifically, our children’s health.

Current plans proposed by the federal General Services Administration include: various options of adding more lanes for semi-truck commercial traffic, which will lead to more trucks and more environmental concerns or, Option #4: To Remove Commercial Traffic. If we are able to ‘reduce emissions like black carbon from commercial truck pollution, we would also see an immediate climate benefit.’ We have the opportunity to send our concerns to the federal government.

We ask El Paso Mayor and Council to send a clear message to protect our children’s health and support the removal of commercial truck traffic from el puente libre, The Bridge of the Americas, in barrio Chamizal.

12/08/2023

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11/18/2023

El instrumento llamado TEMPO se encuentra a bordo de un satélite y busca ofrecer el primer registro continuo de la contaminación atmosférica en el país. "Podremos hacer mediciones cada hora y con una resolución espacial realmente alta", explica una científica.