To commemorate the International Day of Rural Women, U.S.- El Salvador Sister Cities (USESSC) in alliance with the women’s roundtable of CRIPDES are organizing a new online event titled: Rural Women organizing and violations to their Human Rights during the COVID19 Pandemic During one hour, our speakers will talk about the different challenges […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Written by Jacey Anderson / translated by Mario Guevara On Friday, February 22, Zulma Hernández (CRIPDES-Sur) and Zulma Tobar (USESSC) led a training for the staff of Workers Defense Project (WDP), a Texas non-profit that focuses on migrant worker rights. Twenty young organizers participated as “las Zulmas” (with support form Jacey […]
Today, Zulma Hernández (from CRIPDES Sur La Libertad), Zulma Tobar (Sister Cities’ staff in El Salvador), Jonathan Falk and Jacey Anderson led a 6-hour PopEd workshop for about 20 members of the staff of Workers Defense Project, a Texas grassroots organization that works with immigrant workers to help them defend their rights. The workshop focused […]
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 […]
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 […]