MOFGA, the Maine Organic Farmers and Garderners Associacion, is sistered with the Chalatenango Cripdes regional branch the CCR and CORDES. Adopted by MOFGA’s Board of Directors – April 6, 2014 MOFGA Mission Statement: The purpose of the Association is to help farmers and gardeners: grow organic food, fiber and other crops; protect the environment; recycle […]
Edith Portillo is the Secretary of the CRIPDES National Board of Directors, works as the Coordinator of Women’s programs for CRIPDES San Vicente, and is part of the leadership of the National Roundtable of Rural Women. She started working with CRIPDES in 1999, and considers herself the fruit of the work of CRIPDES in rural […]
Since the fraudulent and US-backed presidential elections in November, Hondurans fighting for human rights have suffered even higher levels of repression. This August 11 to August 20th, join US-El Salvador Sister Cities and Witness For Peace Southwest as we accompany our Honduran sisters and brothers in their struggle for a more democratic and just Honduras. Witness for Peace Southwest has a […]
The Salvadoran Working Class is Ready for Another Historic Milestone in Our Struggle The member organizations of the Popular Resistence Movement of October 12th, the MPR -12, welcome the global working class, which we are a part of. We extend that greeting especially to the progressive and leftist political parties and governments, mainly in Latin […]
By Lauren Carasik Originally Published on April 22, 2014 by Al Jazeera America Organization´s Investor Protection Panel Disempowers Marginalized Communities Last week more than 300 international and national civil society organizations wrote to the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, during its biannual meeting in Washington, denouncing the bank’s involvement in the case of Pac […]
By Yolanda Magaña originally published April 9, 2014 in Spanish. Unofficial translation Representatives of the U.S. government reaffirmed yesterday that El Salvador does not meet three conditions to access Millennium Challenge Corporation Funds (MCC), the program known as Fomilenio II, which have to do with fighting money laundering, free trade and the investment […]
‘May is the road to victory’ By Ramon Amaya Amador on April 15, 2014 This article was first published in Honduras in 1963 and was recently translated into English by Lucy Pagoada-Quesada. Amaya was a much-revered author and journalist whose novel “Prisión Verde” exposed the wretched conditions on the U.S.-owned banana plantations, where he worked as […]
Lovely members of U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities, I’d like to let you know that i’m leaving my position as SC El Salvador Co-Coordinator. I have loved working for Sister Cities so much! I’m leaving the position because I’m moving to Peru to live with my husband, but I´m bringing Sister Cities and CRIPDES in my […]
On Wednesday, March 26th, 11 young community leaders, including 2 Sister City scholarship students – Geovanni and Emerson – were sentenced to 4 years in prison for “illicit organization,” which is another way of accusing them of being gang members. While Geovany and Emerson where well known within Sister Cities and other international organizations because of […]
Water safe from privatization for now Originally published on the CISPES blog With the ink barely dry on the State Department’s commitments to work with the incoming administration of Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the leftist Farabundo Martí Liberation Front (FMLN), US Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte continues her crusade for privatization policy, intervening in El […]