November 11th, 2013 www.cispes.org Click here to sign and share the petition today to help us collect 1000 signers by the end Monday, Nov 11 to deliver to the Archbishop! This petition will be presented to the Archbishop in the next week. On September 30, Archbishop Escobar of San Salvador abruptly shut down the Archdiocese’s historic human […]
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October 8th, 2013 Milwaukee Magazine In the end, salad dressing was not poured onto the sidewalk. Steve Watrous, a sociology instructor at MATC’s Downtown campus and one of the activists who organized Monday’s protest outside the law office of Machulak, Robertson and Sodos, couldn’t remember the exact variety demonstrators had selected – Newman’s Own, something with garlic. What […]
Support Human Rights, Democracy, and Sovereignty in El Salvador and Honduras! The Honduran people currently face a situation similar to El Salvador in the 1970´s with increasing militarization, repression, and violent murders of activists and community leaders. In response to this growing crisis the people of El Salvador and Honduras call for solidarity and accompaniment. […]
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By Alexandra Early The Salvadoran people have been waiting for seven years for the Legislative Assembly to pass a comprehensive law to protect their right to safe and clean water. In July they decided they are done waiting and staged a series of rallies, road blocks and press conferences to pressure the legislature to […]
www.stopesmining.com On July 22nd, in commemoration of the Global Day of Action against Open Pit Mining, the National Roundtable Against Mining held a rally and press conference in front of the Legislative Assembly once again demanding that the Legislature of El Salvador expedite the adoption of a law to ban metallic mining.
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On July 4th,the Movement of Popular Resistance (MPR-12) and Confederation of the Agrarian Reform (CONFRAS) held a rally and press conference in front the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly demanding the assembly pass a Food Sovereignty Law with a gender equality focus. The MPR-12 is a coalition conformed unions, organizations of farmers and poor urban folks and […]
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Today, June 28th, 2013 about 125 folks from the Movement of Popular Resistance and solidarity organizations gathered outside the Honduran embassy in San Salvador to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the military coup in Honduras and to demand that the U.S. government cut military aid to Honduras, which has been increasing each year since the […]
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The Fight for Life and Land in the Aguan Valley featuring Juan Lorenzo Cruz, leader of the campesino movement in the Aguan Valley, Honduras Wednesday June 26, 2013 8:30 PM EST (5:30pm PST, 7:30pm CT) Don Lorenzo is a campesino Leader from the Honduran Aguan Valley currently living in El Salvador as a political refugee. […]
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By Catie Johnston Austin Sister Cities Volunteer in San Vicente Delegations are at the heart of what Sister Cities is all about: they are the incarnation of the solidarity relationships that make things like projects, advocacy, and development possible. In April and May, our sister communities in El Salvador received not one, not two, […]
January 28th– February 5th, 2014: Election Observation in El Salvador Join our delegation to accompany the CRIPDES communities during the February 2nd, 2014 presidential elections. Participating in the Election Observation Delegation is an exciting way to learn about the Salvadoran political process, respond to the request for observers from our partners, accompany the rural communities and […]