Read, Remember, Resist! Prior to traveling to El Salvador this past summer with a compañera from Philadelphia and a team from Madison, Wisconsin, I read Jonathan Blitzer’s Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis. Six years had lapsed since my last delegation and I felt […]
Español abajo. In early June, USESSC coordinated a successful delegation with sisterings from Madison-Arcatao and Philadelphia-Las Anonas. 9 participants from Madison and Philadelphia traveled to El Salvador, becoming the first delegation to include two sister city pairings and travel to both sister communities. “Having a delegation that included two sistering relationships and communities was powerful. […]
ABAJO EN ESPAÑOL As we learned about The Current Realities in El Salvador through the Popular Education Model waves of emotions flowed: admiration for the perseverance of the social movement under the State of Exception, anger and frustration at human rights violations—so many innocents detained unjustly, joy and love on reuniting with friends and making new connections in our sister […]
“Those of us from Bangor who participated in a similar immigration-focused delegation last year found some of our thinking about the issues re-arranged by our experience. It also prepared us to be able to offer with confidence multiple presentations on the immigration crisis that a variety of community groups have found compelling. We urge folks to go!” […]
December 4th, 2013 Preliminary report by Tanya Cole Witness for Peace Southwest and U.S. El Salvador Sister Cities Photos- Julio Deras U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities and Witness for Peace Southwest were two of many organizations which organized delegations to observe the elections in Honduras this past Nov. 24th as part of 166 international observer delegation organized by […]