Dear Sister Cities members, To commemorate Sister Cities 25th Anniversary, the Sister Cities Committee is creating a book about Sister Cities’ history with testimonies and stories from U.S. committees and our Salvadoran partners. We need your contributions to make this book possible. Here are some suggestions to get you started writing: Write about how and […]
Report Back from the January 2011 Honduras Accompaniment Project Delegation By Alexandra Early (SC Staff) and Ann Legg (SC board member) The government sells itself by saying they have advanced in terms of human rights, that they have created mechanisms to protect human rights, and they say they are concerned about reconciliation in Honduras. They […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – While a World Bank tribunal deliberates on whether to allow a Milwaukee gold mining company’s controversial $100 million lawsuit against the government of El Salvador to move forward, local and international activists continue to pressure the company to withdraw the suit. Commerce Group Corporation is pursuing its suit under the U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central America […]
Our allies in the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining (the Mesa) are very concerned about a recent wave of death threats and crimes against members of El Salvador’s anti-mining movement as well as other violent crimes recently committed in Cabañas. Similar crimes in 2009 that went uninvestigated, including robberies, kidnappings, and death threats against members […]
On January 5th, 2011, Steve Watrous, of the Midwest Coalition Against Lethal Mining (MCALM) was interviewed on the Madison radio station, WORT-FM, about the$100 million dollar Commerce Group suit against the government of El Salvador and the anti-mining movement in El Salvador. The Commerce Group Corporation is a Milwaukee based company which owns a gold mine in […]
On November 17th, the National Congress in Honduras passed its very own Anti-Terrorism Law. The new legislation, called the Alvarez Law, was presented to Congress by Oscar Alvarez, Minister of Security under Pepe Lobo Sosa, leader of the coup regime. Alvarez is the nephew of General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, leader of the so-called 316 Battalion […]
By the Communication Team of the Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) Representatives of twenty organizations from Honduras, El Salvador and sister countries participated November 30th and December 1st in the forum "Lessons from Honduras: Challenges, threats and options for the Democratization of Latin America and the Caribbean" at the Lutheran University of El […]
Contributed by Power in Community Alliances (PICA) The plans of U.S. and Canadian mining companies to begin mining gold in El Salvador continues to threaten Salvadoran rural communities. Salvadoran environmental and anti-mining activists have been assassinated and threatened. Through a free-trade provision closely resembling legal extortion, the Pacific Rim Mining Company continues its CAFTA suit demanding that […]
By the communications team of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining. After the way mining companies have been rejected by Salvadoran society, refused permits by the government and discredited by links to violence (Pacific Rim in Cabanas) and contamination with cyanide, heavy metals and acid drainage (Commerce Group in Santa Rosa de Lima), you would […]
In Milwaukee, contact Babette Grunow at (414) 447-8369 In Washington, DC, contact Alexis Stoumbelis at (202) 521-2510 In La Crosse, contact Al Gedicks at (608) 785-6782 In El Salvador, contact (in Spanish) David Pereira at 011 503 2225-1906 Ext. 106 In El Salvador ( in English), contact Sarah Bishop at 011 503 785-727-2252 Community […]