Tag Archives: Bangor

2018 Speaking Tour Itinerary

Are you aware of our 2018 Speaking Tour? Of our upcoming popular education workshops? Of our National Gathering? Are you interested in knowing where Bernardo Belloso, from CRIPDES, and our Zulma Tobar will be heading this time?   If so, this is your lucky day. You can read our (still in progress) itinerary below: 2018 […]

Are you interested in attending a Popular Education Workshop?

Have you heard about our popular education workshops? How about being part of a 2-4 hour long session? Our very own Zulma Tobar will be joining CRIPDES’ president Bernardo Belloso and will develop workshops that will cover the following: Great personal learning experiences Analysis of Reality What is popular Education Popular Education in El Salvador […]

Bangor: stop inhuman “zero tolerance” immigration policies

Yesterday there was a protest outside the building housing Senator Collins’ office, demanding she take action to stop inhuman “zero tolerance” immigration policies.   Our very own Dennis Chenoy was one of the speakers and he had the following to say:   Despite the Trump/Sessions immigration fiasco roller-coaster, careening from one form of human rights abuse […]

Dennis Chinoy on the separation of children at the US border

Why has the highest law-enforcement official in the U.S. intervened to disqualify refugee status for desperate migrants, mostly women and children, who are fleeing physical and sexual violence at home? It seems (Jeff) Sessions has lost patience with clogging up the immigration system with people he regards basically as lawbreakers: “Saying a few simple words […]

Meeting Carasque /Conociendo Carasque

(En español abajo) Yesterday I had the chance to meet with old and new members of the board of Carasque, in the department of Chalatenango. Carasque’s sister city is Bangor (Maine).     This is a community that has constant communication with its sister city, despite the technical difficulties due to the signal in that […]

Reporting Back from the Cambridge and Austin Sister Cities Delegations

By Catie Johnston Austin Sister Cities Volunteer in San Vicente   Delegations are at the heart of what Sister Cities is all about: they are the incarnation of the solidarity relationships that make things like projects, advocacy, and development possible. In April and May, our sister communities in El Salvador received not one, not two, […]

How Three Youth Leaders from El Salvador Changed my Life

by Jan Morrill   “Why is it that so many people in the U.S. care about the communities of El Salvador? How can they give so much and expect nothing in return?”  I was asked this question in Chalatenango, during one of my last visits as Sister Cities El Salvador staff. This was not the […]

Report of Fair Trade Delegation to El Salvador, March 2008

From the Fair Trade Delegation, March 2008:  Woven into many of USESSC’s sistering relationships are ‘sisters’ working in the North to promote the goods created by co-operatives in our sistered communities in El Salvador.  Such co-operatives are a natural part of daily life in the organized communities of CRIPDES, part of an economic model that […]