U.S. – El Salvador Sister Cities invites you to an immersive week-long Popular Education School. The School is designed to give participants a basic understanding of the principles and practice of popular education, and to help participants gain both skills and ongoing support to use popular education in their own activism in the United States. […]
(Versión en español abajo) We are thrilled to receive a delegation with the desire to see the organizational structures and challenges in El Salvador. The delegation is formed by Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman from the Congregation Shaarei Shamayim; Fabiola Hamdan, Immigration Affairs Specialist with the Dane County Department of Human Services, Senator LaTonya Johnson for the […]
Last week we had some visitors! Sabrina, Nathalie and Taylor, students from Ferris State University went to CRIPDES San Vicente to know about their work and to Guajoyo, where they had the chance to meet with the community board, scholarship recipients and women’s commitee. ¡Tuvimos compañía la semana pasada! Sabrina, Nathalie y Taylor, estudiantes […]
(Versión en español abajo) Last saturday we were happy to visit Teosinte, in the department of Chalatenango, accompanied by staff from CCR. Teosinte is a community where 71 families are currently living. They are sistered with Arlington. This year, from August 17th – 19th, they will be celebrating 30 years of repopulating the area. Mercedes Maurilio […]
On April 12, 2017, years of community resistance, tireless organizing, and persistent political pressure by the people of El Salvador resulted in a total ban on metallic mining in the country, the first of its kind in the world. The heroes in this victory are clearly the women and men who for more than a […]
This is the time to recognize that although El Salvador is a small country in the map, the faith and suffering have taught people to defend their territory and stand up for their rights. So, it is clear that the size of the country does not make the organization weakened. It was in the early […]
February 2017 marks the history of Cabañas as Cinquera became the first Municipality in that Department showing interest in holding a mining Consultation. Nevertheless, February 26 will be remembered as the day when Cinquera was declared the First Municipality Free of Metallic Mining in Cabañas and the fifth one in the country after the Municipalities […]
Even though the State of El Salvador won the case against the mining company, Oceana Gold, the struggle of the Salvadoran people for the defense of land and territory continues. As a way to pressure the Salvadoran government to implement a law definnitively banning mining in El Salvador, social movements together with organized communities are […]
Summary from the 2016 National Gathering Cambridge, MA Friday, October 7 Participants from out of town arrived Friday in time for a potluck dinner at Jim Wallace’s home in Cambridge. The Cambridge and Arlington committees did a wonderful job at coordinating lodging and transportation for everybody who came in from out of town. Saturday October […]
Testimony to the Bureau of Environmental Protection re chapter 200 mining regulations 2016 Consider the prospect of an unremitting man-made catastrophe whose damaging effects persist longer than human life spans, or the life of a corporation, longer than the tenure of government administrations, but last for centuries. Though man-made, the damage plays out in geologic […]