Read this great piece by Mark Weisbrot and the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), tying US domestic surveillance policy to attempts to sabotage domestic organizing against US foreign policy.  Weisbrot mentions his history with the Central American Solidarity movement, and in fact he was a big CISPES activist in the ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Alexis Stoumbelis, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador Phone: +011 503 7383-4944 E-mail: alexis@cispes.org US unions join May Day March in El Salvador to reject US privatization push May 3, 2013 SAN SALVADOR – An estimated 80,000 Salvadorans representing a wide array of labor organizations, university students, women's organizations ...

CISPES Labor Solidarity Delegates marching on May 1 with banner: "US Workers in Struggle against Privatization!" Yesterday, the organized Salvadoran left came out in force in celebration of May 1, International Workers Day. Over 80,000 members of labor, student, peasant, LGBTQ, feminist, indigenous and environmental organizations, accompanied by the leftist ...

Marchers heading towards the US Embassy. Photo: R.Q. Original article written by Gerson Chávez and published in Diario El Mundo. A hundred unionists marched to the US Embassy in Santa Elena yesterday to demand that US Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte cease pressuring for the passage of the Public-Private Partnership Law. According to Wilfredo Berríos, ...

Click here to read the original article on the Labor Notes Blog.  Written by Hilary GoodfriendJanuary 4, 2013 Salvadoran electrical and municipal workers union leaders will tour the U.S. in February, asking allies to oppose the latest U.S.-backed privatization push in their country. "No to Public Partnerships With Thieves!" read one ...

Click here to see the original article on Upside Down World. written by Allen Hines Thursday, 29 November 2012 09:02 When her son Jackson entered third grade, Diana Zevala noticed a changed in his attitude toward school. He grew less interested in school and started to not want to go. Diana, a former ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A vendor is detained by municipal security agents. Media contacts: In US: Lisa Fuller, Program Director of CISPES, lisa@cispes.org, +1 (202) 521-2510 In  El Salvador: Leah Wilson, CISPES, elsalvador@cispes.org, +503 7418-4436 On November 20, twenty-four organizations from the US and Canada sent a letter to the San Salvador City Council ...

Published in Upside Down World Written by Madeleine Conway, member of the University of Santa Cruz CISPES Chapter A participant in El Salvador’s National Literacy Program (NLP) stands before a crowd and reads, “My name is Rosa Elena Hidalgo...I would like to thank the Ministry of Education, the El Paisnal mayor’s office, ...

Para divulgación inmediata Contacto: Alexis Stoumbelis, Directora Ejecutiva de CISPES (978) 394-0425 Médicos y profesionales de salud participan en brigada médica a El Salvador; Felicitan al Ministerio de Salud por brindar atención de salud rural de “clase mundial” “Los cambios pioneros que hemos visto en acción en El Salvador son sumamente inspiradores,” dice Amanda ...

On July 13 the CISPES Literacy Brigade  held a press conference to talk about their experiences during the brigade. Members of the brigade told the the press that they have seen the The National Literacy Program working miracles, from the big picture of reducing the illiteracy rate in the country by ...