Word: ceasar
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Tramping softly through the sandy West Texas soil in her paisley skirt and black leather heels, Pearl Ceasar looks more like the first-grade teacher she used to be than the nun-turned-troublemaker...
...Ceasar is the paid organizer for a church-based citizens group that is struggling to bring drinking water to thousands of impoverished families along the Mexican border. As such, she mobilizes working-class Hispanics who live in unregulated subdivisions called colonias that sprawl across miles of cotton fields in El Paso's Lower Rio Grande Valley...
...cinder-block home, she embraces a key worker, Anastacia Ledesma, but wastes no time on niceties. "Cuantas personas? Ciento, maybe?" the nun asks in her novice Spanish, inquiring how ) many supporters the area can deliver to the meeting. "Doscientos," comes the reply. "Ah, muy, muy bien," exclaims Ceasar. "Four buses. This time we'll fill four buses...
...Ceasar, 45, mobilizing the colonias is a lot like the teaching she did in Louisiana and Oklahoma as a Sister of Divine Providence. "We're only giving people the tools to act -- like learning to read," she explains. "We're teaching extraordinary things to ordinary people...
...cones, we make them here. Everyone else in the Square buys theirs. That's a major difference between us and the others," says Baskin-Robbins manager Ceasar Cabral...