Dana Frank May 22, 2012, June 11, 2012 edition of The Nation In some ways, it was just one more bloody episode in a blood-soaked country. In the early hours of the morning on May 11, a group of indigenous people traveling by canoe on a river in the northeast Mosquitia region of Honduras came […]
May 16th , 2012 On May 14th, hundreds of family members and community members from the department of Chalatenango and elsewhere around the country gathered in Las Aradas, near the shores of the Sumpul River to commemorate the massacre of over 600 civilians by the armed forces of El Salvador and Honduras on May 14th, […]
By Libby Pappalardo Friends of Chilama Crystal Lake, IL On our first morning in Honduras, we awoke to news of a horrendous fire at Comayagua Prison where 370 prisoners burned to death. Held at gunpoint, prisoners were kept from fleeing the fire and the dead were left on a curb outside the prison to […]
On March 8th, CRIPDES, Share, Centro Romero of Chicago and Causa Oregon held a press conference and rally to launch the Residency Now campaign in El Salvador. The Residency Now campaign is aimed at getting Permanent Residency status for the approximately 64,000 Hondurans, 212,000 Salvadorans, and 3,000 Nicaraguans who have been awarded Temporary Protective Status […]
Scroll down to read: Bangor Daily News: Irving Addresses Maine Mining Interests at UMFK Forum Madison Times: Salvadoran Mining Struggles are Pertinent to Wisconsin April 25, 2012 by A. David Dahmer The recent mining controversy in northern Wisconsin was far more complex than people would have you believe, says Jan Morrill as she stopped in […]
Scroll down for more El Salvador Anti-Mining News: Who Decides for El Salvador: The People or Pacific Rim? Pacific Rim Accuses those who Defend National Sovereignty of Being “Anti-Development” April 25th, 2012 San Salvador On April 25th civil society organizations like CRIPDES and communities that make up the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El […]
March 30, 2012 Mining companies are not just aiming to start operating in El Salvador, they also are trying to loosen regulations and move in to states like Wisconsin and Maine. As we reported in February, Wisconsin is facing the destructive effects of corporate mining with proposed gold and iron mines and the expansion of […]
March 18, 2012 Michael Ring, for the US-El Salvador Sister Cities Honduras Solidarity Committee Thanks to the advocacy work of people around the country, including many in our own network, 94 Congresspeople signed on to a letter sponsored by Ill. Rep Jan Schakowsky calling for the cutting of US military aid to Honduras because of […]
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) circulated a House sign-on “Dear Colleague” letter (found below) addressing the ongoing human rights crisis in the Aguán region of Honduras. We need your help in securing the signature of your Congressperson on this letter by Wednesday, March 7, 2012! To identify your […]
Moments of Inspiration from the Mofga-Chicago Delegation fromShira Hammann, Chicago-Cinquera Sister Cities Many moments from the January delegation stand out in my mind: The staff of the community radio station Radio Sumpul telling us how, in the mid-’90s, they prevented a police shutdown of the radio by ringing a bell in the early […]