The Sister Cities-SHARE Foundation Honduras Elections Observation and Human Rights Solidarity delegation came together in El Progreso, a town outside of San Pedro Sula in northwest Honduras, on November 20th. Together, our diverse group of 50 people represented several organizations in El Salvador that work for solidarity and social justice, as well as a number […]
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www.stopesmining.com On July 22nd, in commemoration of the Global Day of Action against Open Pit Mining, the National Roundtable Against Mining held a rally and press conference in front of the Legislative Assembly once again demanding that the Legislature of El Salvador expedite the adoption of a law to ban metallic mining.
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The Fight for Life and Land in the Aguan Valley featuring Juan Lorenzo Cruz, leader of the campesino movement in the Aguan Valley, Honduras Wednesday June 26, 2013 8:30 PM EST (5:30pm PST, 7:30pm CT) Don Lorenzo is a campesino Leader from the Honduran Aguan Valley currently living in El Salvador as a political refugee. […]
January 28th– February 5th, 2014: Election Observation in El Salvador Join our delegation to accompany the CRIPDES communities during the February 2nd, 2014 presidential elections. Participating in the Election Observation Delegation is an exciting way to learn about the Salvadoran political process, respond to the request for observers from our partners, accompany the rural communities and […]
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US Unions Join May Day March in El Salvador to Reject US Privatization Push www.Cispes.org SAN SALVADOR – An estimated 80,000 Salvadorans representing a wide array of labor organizations, university students, women’s organizations and anti-mining activists, among others, as well as the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) political party, took to the streets […]
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On Wednesday April 4th, the communities and organizations that make up the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining held a press conference rejecting the actions of the company Pacific Rim, which recently increased it´s lawsuit against El Salvador from $105 million dollars to $300 million. The Mesa declared: “This lawsuit is an attempt to undermine the […]
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WHAT: Salvadoran activists will travel to Canada and the US to garner support for their campaign to make El Salvador the first country to ban metal mining. The “Water Is More Precious than Gold” tour is part of a continent-wide public education campaign that is raising awareness about the negative impact of US/Canadian mining operations […]
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March 14, 2013 by Gerson Chávez (Diario El Mundo), translation by Cispes.org A hundred unionists marched to the US Embassy in Santa Elena yesterday to demand that US Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte cease pressuring for the passage of the Public-Private Partnership Law. According to Wilfredo Berríos, coordinator of the Salvadoran Union Front (FSS), approval of […]
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February 14th, 2012 On Wednesday, February 6th, a special hearing was held for the 10 young leaders from the communities of El Progreso 3 and Santa Cecilia –members of the Movement of Popular Resistance (MPR-12) – who were accused of illicit association. Of the 10 young men, 8 were arrested early in the morning of […]
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February 4th, 2012 The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (La Mesa) reiterated in a press conference this morning its petition for the Salvadoran Government to introduce legislation to place a definite ban to metallic mining in the country. The call was made as a response to a recent report released by the […]