October, 17, 2011 The storm has caused severe flooding in the CRIPDES Regions of San Vicente, La Libertad and Northern San Salvador, as well as in the regions of Achuachapan, La Paz, Sonsonate and Usulutan. Many CRIPDES communities have been affected by the flooding and landslides: La Libertad: According to El Faro La Libertad has […]
Starting October 3rd we are going to be visiting committees and making presentations with community activists Agustin Menjivar and Estela Garcia in Wisconsin, Illinois and Kansas. Agustin Menjivar is the president of the Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango and leader of the historic community of Arcatao. Estela Garcia grew up in the […]
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Learning From 25 Years of Solidarity, Struggle, & Tortilla-Making in El Salvador Written by Alexandra Early & Jan Morrill for Social Policy Magazine. Full article at www.socialpolicy.org. This summer, Sister Cities celebrates twenty-five years of cross-border solidarity with the campesinos of El Salvador. Among other things, this milestone means that North Americans visitors have […]
By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh This article appeared in the August 1-8, 2011 edition of The Nation. Thirty years ago, several thousand civilians in the northern Salvadoran community of Santa Marta quickly gathered a few belongings and fled the US-funded Salvadoran military as it burned their houses and fields in an early stage of […]
On July 8th, members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador held a press conference in front of the Honduran Embassy to denounce the arrest of three environmentalists from the Valle de Siria in Honduras, where Goldcorp operates an open-pit mine. Here is the statement members of the Mesa read at the […]
Friday, July 8, 2011- www.defensoresenlinea.com The death threats against Father Fausto Milla, a commissioner with the Commission of Truth, and his assistant Denia Mejia have escalated recently, resulting in their decision to leave the county this Friday. They said good-bye to fellow Hondurans during a press conference at the Committee of Families of the Detained […]
On June 25th, CRIPDES held its 27th Annual National Assembly, at the Hospitalito La Divina Providencia, the site Monseñor Romero´s assassination 31 years ago. The event was attended by over 150 community leaders from all over El Salvador, as well as 18 members of the Cambridge Sister City committee. The event featured a speech by […]
From October 4th to 20th Sister Cities is going to be touring the Midwest with two representatives from our Salvadoran sister organization, CRIPDES. On October 7th and 8th we will hold our National Gathering in Madison, one of our oldest sister cities, and the sight of the February rebellion against conservative attacks on social services […]
Not Another Mine, Not Another Death! Press Release Thursday June 16, 2011 Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, of the Cabañas Environmental Committee (CAC), was killed on June 4th and his body wasn't identified until 10 days after his disappearance. He is the fourth environmental activist killed in Cabañas. The last time he was seen […]