(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) For a week, we were not the experts. For a week, we silenced our cultural biases and opened our hearts, listening to Salvadoran experiences, Salvadoran pain, Salvadoran justice and healing. My experience during the Popular Education School was transformational, and I emerged from the week energized, motivated, and ready to take […]
If you haven’t had the chance to attend a national gathering before, why don’t you give it a try this year? US-El Salvador Sister Cities will hold its National Gathering in Philadelphia, PA in October. Activities begin on the evening of Friday, October 5th with a special interactive Historical Memory event from 6 […]
(En Español abajo) As done in the past, CRIPDES and the staff of Sister Cities joined the rally against water privatization initiatives outside the National Association of Private Companies (ANEP, in Spanish), who is trying to integrate a management body making decisions on water distribution and how much they would charge for it. ANEP’s […]
We invite you to listen to this interview with State Senator LaTonya Johnson, Jonathan Solari, from Planned Parenthood and our dear Barbara Mergen Alvarado from the Madison Arcatao Sister City Project. They talk about their experience knowing the center for deportees in El Salvador. CLICK HERE
(En español abajo) The last Madison delegation sent the following regards to Miriam and Bernardo from CRIPDES, on their 34th anniversary: Congratulations CRIPDES on your 34th anniversary of your amazing work transforming communities and organizing to build the power of the people. I was so honored to meet with your leaders Bernardo and Miriam to […]
“What I learned in all of these places, from dozens of people we talked with, was when Salvadorans leave their communities and families on a perilous, uncertain journey to Mexico or the United States, they do so not just for the chance at a better life, but oftentimes to save their lives and the lives […]
The Madison-Arcatao Sister City Project (MASCP) and the delegates that visited El Salvador from June 4th to June 11th gave an interview about the reality they witnessed in our country on June 20, 2018 to WORT FM. Jonathan Solari (Planned Parenthood), Marc Rosenthal (MASCP), rep. Christine Taylor and Fabiola Hamdan (Immigration Affairs Specialist) discuss […]
(En español abajo) I am now ten days back from the recent Guajoyo-Austin delegation trip. And though back into a routine here, I find myself thinking often of the visit and the wonderful people of El Salvador. I am very thankful to Mario Guevara, of U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities and Lurvi of CRIPDES. The […]
(En español abajo) One of the participants in the last Austin delegation wrote the following: I was in El Salvador from June 29-July 5 with a four-person delegation representing the Austin Chapter of a grassroots organization called US El Salvador Sister Cities. We spent three days in San Salvador and three days in […]
Analyzing the link between social justice education and student activism, Doris Santoro publishes the following article, where she talks about, among others, Hannah Arendt’s theory in the following terms: Thinking is the antidote to banality, as it challenges the previously accepted and well-worn ideas of the past. The places where thinking is encouraged and fostered […]