By Nisha Arya Armed with shovels and hammers, bandanas and water bottles, we trudge to the work site in a small village called Las Anonas in central El Salvador. We are eager to show our willingness to work and help build latrines. The honest truth is that I know absolutely nothing about latrines. I […]
The plane landed. Applause echoed from the back of the Beoing 757 aircraft, and quickly migrated to the front. What a fitting moment – after painstaking planning and preparation, I had arrived! I bid the friendly passenger who sat next to me a warm farewell, and eventually met with Suzanne Geoghegan, president of the Binghamton-El […]
A group of CRLS students recently visited Las Flores over April break. The delegation included CRLS juniors Maribel Rawson-Stone, Emma Ramsdell, and Jesse Simmons; CRLS media staff member Erica Modugno; CRLS alumna, researcher, and activist Stephanie Guirand; Amigos School music teacher Sharon Hamel; Nancy Ryan, Register Forum Correspondent Cathy Hoffman, and Rachel Wyon, founders of […]
Stong Interest in Local Organic Foods in El Salvador By the MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee Interest in organic farming and gardening and in permaculture is strong in El Salvador. That was one of the principle lessons that four members of the MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee learned while visiting our sister organizations and other groups […]
2014 may be winding down, but U.S.- El Salvador Sister Cities sure isn´t! We still have 2 opportunities for network members nationwide to engage in social justice and solidarity here in El Salvador. November 14- 21 This November, learn about the organizing work being done in the Salvadoran countryside in historic communities and their experiences […]
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 […]
Arlington families travel to ‘sister city’ Teosinte By Beth Soltzberg Arlington fourth-grader Rachel Barglow, fifth-grader Jackson Dray, and seventh-graders Rafi Barglow and Isabella Dray knew they’d have a very different kind of February vacation this year. With family members, they spent the week in Teosinte, the rural El Salvadoran village that has been Arlington’s […]
On Friday, town hall representatives from the communities surrounding San Jose Las Flores in Chalatenango met to discuss a new project that will be unfolding over the course of the next seven months called Chalatenango, Territories Free of Mining. Sister Cities will be hosting an anti-mining delegation that will coincide with this project, bringing delegates […]
By Vic Hinterlang Austin-Guajoyo Committee Following up on our trip last May to Guajoyo, Austin’s Salvadoran Sister City, (See Austin-Guajoyo Sister City Project, May 31, 2014), Jennifer Long and I decided to return to El Salvador as International Observers of the February 2nd Presidential Election. Three parties, the FMLN, which currently holds the presidency in the […]
By Rachel Wyon, Cambridge-San Jose La Flores Committee As part of the Sister Cities Election Observation Delegation, I was in El Salvador from January 28-February 5. Election Day on February 2nd was a spectacular day. Twenty-two years after the signing of the Peace Accords – a short generation ago – and the FMLN and […]