By Julie Harrington September 26th, 2011 When I sit down and try to describe my travel experience with the Sister City Organization I’m not certain where to begin. As an educator who lives and teaches in Arlington, I was aware of and a distant supporter of the Arlington-Teosinte Sister City relationship through my […]
Why is it so beneficial to become a sustainer? Becoming a sustainer makes giving easier for both you and the Sister Cities network. It lowers Sister Cities administration costs by receiving donations automatically, and provides a reliable stream of contributions throughout the year. How Does the Sustainer Program Work? The sustainer program is a […]
Learning From 25 Years of Solidarity, Struggle, & Tortilla-Making in El Salvador Written by Alexandra Early & Jan Morrill for Social Policy Magazine. Full article at www.socialpolicy.org. This summer, Sister Cities celebrates twenty-five years of cross-border solidarity with the campesinos of El Salvador. Among other things, this milestone means that North Americans visitors have […]
When Power in Community Alliance (PICA) of Bangor, Maine raised $4,133 by selling donated gold for the anti-mining movement they assumed the money would go to lobbying or mobilizing work done by the National Roundtable against Mining in El Salvador (The Mesa, in Spanish). However, when the news came back that the money had been […]
Diario Digital Contrapunto Reports: Military Leaders of the Civil War in Jail August 8th, 2011 By Hugo Sanchez / Gerardo Arbaiza SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador woke this morning shocked after learning that the military leaders who led the army for much of the civil war (1980-1992), are imprisoned in a military facility which before and […]
by the Association of Participatory Radios and Programs of El Salvador (ARPAS) July 15th, 2011 Yesterday Nery Jeremias Orellana was killed , director of the Community radio station, Radio Joconguera in the municipality of Candelaria in southern Honduras near the border with El Salvador.The young journalist was also a correspondent of Radio Progreso, located in […]
By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh This article appeared in the August 1-8, 2011 edition of The Nation. Thirty years ago, several thousand civilians in the northern Salvadoran community of Santa Marta quickly gathered a few belongings and fled the US-funded Salvadoran military as it burned their houses and fields in an early stage of […]
On July 8th, members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador held a press conference in front of the Honduran Embassy to denounce the arrest of three environmentalists from the Valle de Siria in Honduras, where Goldcorp operates an open-pit mine. Here is the statement members of the Mesa read at the […]
Friday, July 8, 2011- www.defensoresenlinea.com The death threats against Father Fausto Milla, a commissioner with the Commission of Truth, and his assistant Denia Mejia have escalated recently, resulting in their decision to leave the county this Friday. They said good-bye to fellow Hondurans during a press conference at the Committee of Families of the Detained […]
On June 25th, CRIPDES held its 27th Annual National Assembly, at the Hospitalito La Divina Providencia, the site Monseñor Romero´s assassination 31 years ago. The event was attended by over 150 community leaders from all over El Salvador, as well as 18 members of the Cambridge Sister City committee. The event featured a speech by […]