This film documents the work of Annunciation House and its guests. Join us as we watch volunteers struggling with their place of privilege in the house, while we see migrants preparing for the next leg of their journey deeper into America.
Where today would Jesus give his love and attention? For Ruben Garcia, the soft-spoken founder and director of the Annunciation House in El Paso, TX, the answer is obvious: to the poor, the frightened, and the persecuted. Decades ago he noticed the sad stream of poor migrants fleeing abysmal conditions in Mexico and coming to the US with nothing but hope.
"Running To Stand Still" comes at a time when concerns about immigration are front and center. Millions of people around the world are on the move, forcibly displaced from their homes by powerful forces including gang violence, climate change, and war. They come from South America, the Northern Triangle of Central America, the Caribbean, and elsewhere. First and foremost, "Running" seeks to go beyond the headlines to put a human face on the migrants themselves: vulnerable human beings whose heartbreaking stories are sadly missing from the daily news cycles.
Oh Mercy gives a face and a voice to these children, women, and men who have been compelled to leave their homes in North and Central America by forces beyond their control, but have yet to find hope in the promised land to the north to which they have traveled in search of safety and freedom.
Farm to table can really strike a chord. Connects us to our collective past... to something we're missing. Maybe to a time when food felt simpler, when life felt simpler. The farmers on the field before dawn... planting, tending, raising animals, growing produce. A truck driver loading up a haul and heading down a dusty highway to the next stop on the journey. Assembly line at the processing plant, grocery store shop, farmer's market tent, chef's cutting board... there's a whole lot of work along that road. Hard back breaking work. Sometimes dangerous, often thankless...
Remember America like it used to be family, faith, community, hard work, respect for your elders, respect for yourself. Go to work in the morning, no complaints. People built things, fixed things, took pride in their craft. Friends, family, neighbors... one and the same. Backyard barbeques on Saturday, church on Sunday, back to work on Monday. And when you had a dream, you'd chase it. The thing about these immigrants coming into our country today, well, that's their America too. Maybe the good old days are back... Welcome.
CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh, travels with a group of migrants as they make the arduous trek on foot through Central and South America. The journey through the Darien Gap is a perilous jungle crossing between Colombia and Panama that many migrants must face as they head north to seek asylum in the United States. Over five harrowing days, Paton Walsh hikes the full 66-mile roadless route, documenting the heroism of everyday people, milked for cash by drug cartels and unwanted by any country, as they battle the dense rainforest in search of a better life.
CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh, travels with a group of migrants as they make the arduous trek on foot through Central and South America. The journey through the Darien Gap is a perilous jungle crossing between Colombia and Panama that many migrants must face as they head north to seek asylum in the United States. Over five harrowing days, Paton Walsh hikes the full 66-mile roadless route, documenting the heroism of everyday people, milked for cash by drug cartels and unwanted by any country, as they battle the dense rainforest in search of a better life.
CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh, travels with a group of migrants as they make the arduous trek on foot through Central and South America. The journey through the Darien Gap is a perilous jungle crossing between Colombia and Panama that many migrants must face as they head north to seek asylum in the United States. Over five harrowing days, Paton Walsh hikes the full 66-mile roadless route, documenting the heroism of everyday people, milked for cash by drug cartels and unwanted by any country, as they battle the dense rainforest in search of a better life.
