Category Archives: Get Involved

Sister Cities Responds to Honduras Solidarity Network’s Call to Action

The Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN) has been busy this week asking for support surrounding the trial of eight water defenders from Guapinol, Honduras. These activists have spent two years in prison on trumped up charges for defending the Guapinol and Sand Pedro rivers from a mining operation led by Honduran mining company Inversiones Los Pinares, […]

Chicago’s 2021 Bike-a-thon

Today we want to share an inspirational story from the Chicago committee, sistered with Cinquera:   Working in solidarity with other groups   For more than 20 years the Chicago-Cinquera Sister Cities committee has participated in a multi-group fundraising event—the Pedal for Peace Bike-a-thon! All participating organizations support community projects in Latin America or focus […]

Thanks for supporting our 2021 midyear fundraising

The entire USESSC team wants to thank you for your support to our 2021 midyear fundraising effort.   Thanks to you, we successfully raised $10,000 to support CRIPDES’ women’s program and $1,000 to support the TPS Alliance.   Your donations amounted to $14,000 dollars that have enabled us to contribute to the mobilization of participants […]

Join our Urgent Action Network

We are inviting you to join Sister Cities’ Urgent Action Network to help our network effectively stand with people fighting for their rights and dignity and justice in El Salvador, Mesoamerica and at the US-Mexico border. By signing up, you can choose to have your name included on statements Sister Cities sends to key stakeholders […]

End of the year appeal

Dear Friends of US-El Salvador Sister Cities, Happy holidays to you and all your loved ones. We hope you are all staying safe and healthy!  We thank you for your continued support throughout the years and especially during this tumultuous 2020 in which, with your help and the always inspiring organizing of our sister communities […]

Open Letter to the Salvadoran Government asking them to sign the Escazu agreement

The Escazú Agreement, a watershed 2018 United Nations environmental treaty for Latin America and the Caribbean, could mark a dramatic shift in environmental policy for Central America. Despite the deepening climate change-related degradation of the country’s environment and violence against the environmentalists who come to its defense, though, the Bukele administration hasn’t publicly expressed its […]

USESSC Accountability / Nuestra rendición de cuentas

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Thanks to the donations made to our fundraising due to the COVID crisis and tropical storms Amanda and Cristóbal, The U.S.- El Salvador Sister Cities Network was able to raise 19,763 dollars that have been used for the organization and delivery of food kits to communities affected in the five CRIPDES […]

Amanda fundraising

June 3, 2020   Dear Friends of US-El Salvador Sister Cities, We are writing to ask for your emergency solidarity once again to support our sister communities in El Salvador as they face devastation from the impact of Tropical Storm Amanda. You can donate online or, if you prefer, by check.  We thank all of […]

Sister Cities supports the Poor people’s campaign

by Ann Legg, board member   We’ve had three so-called rescue bills. Not one bill provided healthcare for everybody and the uninsured, in the midst of a pandemic. Not one bill provided living wages, in the midst of a pandemic. Not one bill guaranteed that your water couldn’t be cut off and your utilities, in […]

Community update 18-5-20

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Yesterday, our friends at Teosinte reported: “We are still locked up, with the new DUI measure (permission to move according to the last digit of your identity document), people go out in their vehicles and (for) the rest (…) there is an advantage, people come selling food suplies here and also […]