From October 5th to 17th, Sister Cities’s traveled up and down the East Coast, from Pennsylvania to Maine with CRIPDES’s leader Zulma Hernandez who shared the challenges, successes and lessons of the Salvadoran social movement . This year, the National Gathering was hosted by the Philadelphia committee on October 6th-7th, where members of the […]
Donate Now to Make this Election Observation Delegation Possible! Support Sister Cities in our effort to bring representatives of the Salvadoran social movement to support their Honduran brothers and sisters and serve as international observers during Honduras’ primary election on November 18th, when supporters of LIBRE, the party of the nonviolent National Front for Popular […]
<<Also see news about the Canadian mining company Goldcorp's efforts to influence Guatemalan laws below>> Mining for Gold: A “Pact with the Devil”? The economic crisis—and the rising price of gold—have spurred North American firms to reopen mines and attack environmental regulations. Here’s what we can learn from El Salvador’s moratorium on new mining permits. […]
Source: School of the Americas Watch and the Honduras Solidarity Network August 24, 2012 Over the last few weeks, thousands of you around the country have sent messages to your members of Congress, urging them to ask U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to suspend U.S. assistance to the Honduran military and police, given the […]
In October 2012, Sister Cities will be hitting the road on our East Coast speaking tour. We will be going all the way from Pennsylvania to Maine along with Zulma Hernandez, a dynamic young CRIPDES organizer with years of experience in youth, political and women´s organizing. Our tour starts at the Sister Cities National Gathering […]
August 10th, 2012 Source-stopesmining.org On August 7th, the Ministry of the Environment (MARN) and the Ministry of the Economy (MINEC) presented a bill to the Legislative Assembly that would temporary suspend all mining activity in El Salvador. The bill states that there are not the necessary conditions for mining in El Salvador. If passed, the suspension […]
Chicago-Cinquera Sister Cities A sustainable development and friendship project with El Salvador May 6, 2012 Immigration Taskforce for Central America c/o Jose Artiga SHARE Foundation 2425 College Drive Berkeley, CA 94704 Dear Immigration Taskforce for Central America: This letter is submitted to express our support for the campaign to secure legal permanent residency […]
On June 27th, about two hundred people from around El Salvador, gathered in front of the Honduran embassy in San Salvador to denounce the coup in Honduras and demand an end to U.S. support for militarization in Latin America. After the rally and press conference in front of the embassy, protesters marched down to the […]
June 6, 2012 As the clock ticked towards five pm on Friday, June 1st, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) released its ruling in the Pacific Rim vs. the Government of El Salvador case. The ICSID tribunal, a wing of the World Bank, ruled that it did not have jurisdiction under Central […]
Dana Frank May 22, 2012, June 11, 2012 edition of The Nation In some ways, it was just one more bloody episode in a blood-soaked country. In the early hours of the morning on May 11, a group of indigenous people traveling by canoe on a river in the northeast Mosquitia region of Honduras came […]