We invite you to participate in this workshop developed by Bangor committee member, Dennis Chinoy called “Say Its Name: The Deep Roots and Bitter Fruits of White Supremacy” In the spirit of our U.S. – El Salvador Sister Cities Network’s commitment to make racial justice and equity a central focus of our work, Dennis is […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Last week, the Popular Education team lead a workshop with Workers Defense Project. The workshop’s theme explored what we called the “Braid of Oppression.” The Braid of Oppression is a concept Central American organizers use to understand how colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy are individual forces–or strands–that criss-cross and interact with each […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Today, June 8th, 2020, US-El Salvador Sister Cities stands in solidarity with Black communities and Black people across our country who are suffering violence at the hands of police, white supremacists and deeply embedded structural racism in the United States. This plague of racism and white supremacy has led to the […]
(En Español abajo) In 1988, Peggy McIntosh wrote the following: “My Schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged person, or as a participant in a damaged culture. I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral state depended on her individual moral will. My […]