Via The Mexican Times:

The Dirty Hands Caravan, made up of about 120 people including actor-director Sean Penn, are traveling from Indio, Calif., to New Orleans and made a stop in Las Cruces on Tuesday night.

The participants boarded a string of bio-diesel buses in an effort designed to engage a new generation of activists.

The group is doing different volunteer activities in select cities on the trip.

Which cities they are stopping in and what activities they are involved in is not known in advance because an itinerary is not available on the group’s Web site.

The Dirty Hands Caravan had a special guest speaker at dinner on their campground in Las Cruces, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.

"It was another really cool day on the Dirty Hands Caravan!," Pat Pedraja wrote on the group’s blog on the Do Something Web site. "We finally stopped driving around 8 pm at the State Fairgrounds in Los (sic) Cruces, New Mexico. Everyone set up their tents in a circle, and a fire was built while a catering company was cooking dinner in the back of a truck. It was too dark to play baseball, but I played catch with my mom - she can’t catch :). I even learned a new guitar chord with a new friend.

"We all sat around the campfire while we waited for dinner, and then I was asked to speak. I told them my story - about surviving leukemia and starting Driving for Donors - and that everyone on the trip has the power to make a difference by doing something important. My mom started to cry because she was proud of me and everyone else started to cry too!

"Dinner was delicious! I had steak and mashed potatoes with apple cobbler; no vegan food for me! After dinner, Cindy Sheehan spoke. I didn’t know who she was until I heard her story. Her son died in the Iraq War in 2004 and she camped outside Bush’s Texas ranch for 30 days in April 2005 trying to talk to President Bush. She called the youth of today the ‘WE Generation’ because WE need to work together to make change! Cindy chatting us up around the campfire

"I was so tired that I fell asleep in a chair as she was talking - sorry, Cindy! She is running for Congress in San Francisco www.cindyforcongress.org and she even offered to do a marrow drive with me!"