El Paso Times, the newspaper that is ethnically- and politically-challenged (more on those later), as well as circulation-challenged (see: door-to-door hawkers), wants you to know that a “Border group” will be holding a “peace vigil” today for about an hour at San Antonio and Campbell in downtown El Paso.

See, the Times article doesn’t report anything else, just as it doesn’t report ethnicity of criminals or backgrounds of local pols. So, as is typical when interest in a MSM article is piqued, research is necessary.

Since the “Border group” — aka Border Peace Presence — isn’t sophisticated enough to have a web site, or its members are too old to deal with HTML, The Newspaper Tree helped out back in 2004:

“The Border Peace Presence (BPP) is a local informational organization dedicated to peaceful alternatives to the Bush administration’s foreign policy.”

Now we’re getting somewhere.

Turns out, through basic research that El Paso Times didn’t bother to conduct, that BPP holds a weekly peace vigil that has “had a real impact on the public.”

…crickets chirp…

What’s so “special” about something that happens every week, El Paso Times?

Well you just can’t beat having an impact, much less a real one, something that BorderPundit hopes to do too (albeit without the silly individuals who can afford to take time off from work to stand on a street corner with posterboard they picked up at Target the day before).

Merlyn Heyman (jheyman@elp.rr.com) is your man (woman? womyn?) to say howdy to if you want to get involved, mock, or take pictures of and post to your kewl myspace account. Or you could email the more sophisticated group address at Borderpeacepresence2003@yahoo.com.

UPDATE: About 35 attended. This article does not reference BPP, but instead the group it advertises itself under, United for Peace and Justice. That’s sloppy any way you name them.