H.R. No. 1544
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, The community organization La Mujer Obrera is
working to create jobs and sustainable economic opportunity for
low-income women workers in El Paso with its ambitious Centro
Mayapan Festival Marketplace project; and
WHEREAS, Founded in 1981, La Mujer Obrera is dedicated to
fostering empowerment and employment with dignity for women of
Mexican heritage and their families; it is also working to
revitalize South Central El Paso by providing basic skills and
vocational experience for women and helping them navigate the
requirements for employment and the development of small
businesses; and
WHEREAS, Anchoring this effort is Centro Mayapan, a unique
festival marketplace housed in a renovated 40,000-square-foot
warehouse and encompassing a wide range of businesses, community
services, and cultural opportunities; and
WHEREAS, The center's Mercado Mayapan will be a vibrant
indoor space for food vendors, artisans, and other
microenterprises; a vital center for Mexican culture, Plaza
Cultural will specialize in performances and exhibitions by
dancers, musicians, and artists from both sides of the border,
while the Museo Mayachen will feature permanent exhibits about the
heritage and struggle of Mexican immigrant women garment workers
and farmworkers; and
WHEREAS, Centro Mayapan will also include a media and
technology center, where women can take classes in journalism and
the use of computers, and the Center for Bilingual Development and
Social Enterprise, where instruction in leadership development,
civic engagement, and entrepreneurship will be offered; and
WHEREAS, Planned to open in 2009, Centro Mayapan will
encourage economic and cultural development, generating jobs,
business growth, and community investment, and the women of La
Mujer Obrera may indeed take great pride in the scope and ambition
of this inspiring project; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas
Legislature hereby congratulate La Mujer Obrera for the development
of Centro Mayapan Festival Marketplace and extend to the
organization's members and supporters sincere best wishes for
continuing achievement; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for La Mujer Obrera as an expression of high regard by the
Texas House of Representatives.
Chavez
Pickett
Quintanilla
Moody
Marquez
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Speaker of the House
I certify that H.R. No. 1544 was adopted by the House on April
29, 2009, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House