Category Archives: Urgent Action Network

Remembering El Mozote // Recordando a El Mozote

(español abajo) Today and tomorrow mark 42 years since the atrocities of El Mozote.  On December 11 and 12, 1981, over 800 men, women, and children–all civilians–were killed by the Salvadoran Army in what is now considered to be one of the worst massacres of the twentieth century in Latin America.  The battalion that was […]

Urgent Action: Palestine and Israel

(Español abajo) In the 1980’s, US-El Salvador Sister Cities members organized in support of the right of Salvadorans to safely return to their places of origin in the midst of the US-backed Salvadoran Army’s vicious attacks on civilians and rebel combatants that resulted in multiple massacres of Salvadoran civilians. These atrocities, carried out with US […]

Take Action to Oppose Elliot Abrams’ Nomination / Tome medidas para oponerse a la nominación de Elliot Abrams

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   In early July, US President Joe Biden nominated Elliott Abrams to the bipartisan US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Take action to stop the appointment of Abrams to the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Diplomacy cannot include enabling and covering up war crimes! Abrams has “enjoyed” a career as […]