By Kate Chesebrough From January 11 – 20th the Binghamton-El Charcón Sister Cities Project (BECSCP) went on a delegation to visit our sister community in El Charcón as well as Boca Poza and Santa Marta, two other communities that CRIPDES works with. Five delegates went on the trip, four of which serve on the […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) USESSC and CISPES are releasing the following statement to support the leaders of Santa Marta arrested in January 11: The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) and U.S.- El Salvador Sister Cities – international solidarity organizations that have accompanied the Salvadoran popular social movements and their struggles – strongly […]
The historical community of Santa Marta in Cabañas woke up today with an operative of the police in which several leaders were arrested. Read their statement below: URGENT! To the national and international community, civil society organizations, friends of Santa Marta and the ADES association, we urgently inform: The Attorney General Office and the […]
En el día internacional de la persona migrante, queremos invitarles a escuchar el podcast realizado gracias al proyecto de migraciones de la Universidad de Cornell, con la tremenda participación de la profesora Patricia Rodríguez. En el último capítulo hablamos de cómo la migración ha afectado específicamente el trabajo de CRIPDES. Esperamos que lo disfrute. […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Yesterday the last assembly of the year was held with the beneficiaries of the scholarship program sponsored by the Austin and Philadelphia committees. 14 out of a total of 30 young people will complete their high school studies. Several of them were accompanied by their mothers, fathers or guardians. The participants […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) On October 8 and 9 our network held a virtual National Gathering for the third year in a row. This post aims to provide a short summary of the highlights from the weekend. If you want to get more into the weeds, you can read the full meeting minutes or watch […]
THE WASHINGTON POST reports: Hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from Central America, are at risk of losing their work permits after negotiations with the Biden administration to extend them broke down this week, advocates said Wednesday. “>More than 300,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal are seeking in federal court to […]
Lissette Lemus recently reported for EL DIARIO DE HOY that seven social organizations of El Salvador have collected a total of 4,071 complaints of human rights violations commited by State agents during the on-going exception regime declared in March 2022. According to the data collected, thousands of people have been victims of abuses by […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Last weekend, Tropical Storm Julia demonstrated, once again, how fragile El Salvador continues to be in the face of tropical storms, even when they are downgraded to a “tropical depression.” Despite the reports that showed the magnitude of the event, many people had to use their personal days or take time […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) We are just wrapping up the mini-tour and it is already time to prepare for our national gathering. As we mentioned before, we hope that this will be the last online gathering we develop. As always, we will have the participation of CRIPDES and we hope that you will invite several […]