"Trying to save lives should be LEGAL!" Beatriz is a 22-year old mother who is 20 weeks pregnant with a fetus that has developed without a brain and will most likely not survive birth. Due to serious health conditions, Beatriz's life is at risk should she give birth. Her doctors ...

Join US Labor and Take Action against Anti-Worker, Anti-Union, Pro-Privatization Legislation in El Salvador!  While thousands of people take to the streets for immigrant and workers' rights in the US, 70,000+ Salvadorans and CISPES delegates are marching in honor of May Day, International Workers Day, to stop Washington's latest economic disaster from ...

Tell the US to Recognize the Legitimate Presidency of Maduro in Venezuela! John Kerry, Latin America is NOT the  United States Government's "Backyard" President Maduro after taking the presidential oath on April 19. In the name of REAL democracy and national sovereignty, we denounce the position of the United States government, currently ...

Take Action and Sign the Petition Today! Click here for information about our recent Salvadoran Labor Leader Tour  & read on for more about the upcoming May Day Labor Delegation to El Salvador. Today, Salvadoran workers are fighting hard against sweeping US-backed, privatization legislation called the Public-Private Partnership Law, or P3, which would put ...

Wreckage of destroyed vendor stalls in downtown San Salvador. San Salvador Mayor and ARENA Presidential candidate Norman Quijano has launched a series of violent assaults on thousands of street vendors and trade unionists in an attempt to consolidate middle class support for his 2014 electoral bid and begin striking down ...

On October 20th, thousands of people marched in El Salvador to demand their Human Right to water and demonstrate their opposition to gold mining. A description of the objectives and program of that action is below. *Show your support for the communities affected by mining projects and the Salvadoran social movement by calling and ...

On Tuesday July 17, Senators Robert Menéndez (D-NJ) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) released a press statement calling for the Obama administration to threaten the Salvadoran government with the suspension of aid money and advisers if they do not resolve the "constitutional crisis."   The so-called constitutional crisis stems from a ...

In a major cabinet shakeup, El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes has effectively removed all high-ranking members of his public security cabinet who are linked to the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). Their replacements, including several high-ranking military officers, indicate a disturbing trend toward the militarization of El Salvador’s public ...

CISPES Action Alert: October 11, 2011 - adapted from Witness For Peace While the 99% stand up to corporate greed by occupying Wall Street and cities across the country, Congress is getting set to pass three free trade deals that put corporate profits ahead of people and the environment. This is our LAST ...

The unions and their allies have decided to reschedule the march that they had planned for Friday until the morning of Monday October 10.  This gives you more time to take action!  Join the hundreds of people who have already sent a message to Humberto Centeno, the Minister of Labor ...