Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) » New York http://www.cispes.org Tue, 21 May 2013 21:44:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Margarito Nolasco in New York – Photos! http://www.cispes.org/new-york/margarito-nolasco-in-new-york-photos/ http://www.cispes.org/new-york/margarito-nolasco-in-new-york-photos/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:48:03 +0000 admin http://www.cispes.org/?p=1773 THANKS MARGARITO!

New York CISPES thanks Margarito Nolasco and all our friends in New York and New Jersey for making Margarito’s visit a success!

]]> http://www.cispes.org/new-york/margarito-nolasco-in-new-york-photos/feed/ 0 30 Years of Solidarity Organizing! Join the CISPES Celebration in Seattle, LA, DC, NY and Boston http://www.cispes.org/boston/30-years-of-solidarity-organizing-join-the-cispes-celebration-in-seattle-la-dc-ny-and-boston/ http://www.cispes.org/boston/30-years-of-solidarity-organizing-join-the-cispes-celebration-in-seattle-la-dc-ny-and-boston/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:19:22 +0000 admin http://www.cispes.org/wordpress_test/?p=725 As you know, CISPES is celebrating our 30th anniversary this year (check out the historic 30-year website ).Five CISPES anniversary celebrations are already scheduled to take place throughout the country, we hope you can join us for the CISPES celebration in your city!


seattlecispesbanner.jpgWashington DC Celebrates 30 years of CISPES – Saturday, Dec 11:

6pm – midnight
ST. STEPHENS

1525 Newton St. NW
Washington, DC 20010
Join us to celebrate our 30th anniversary!
TastySalvadoran Dinner: 6pm | Speakers & Saludos: 7 – 8pm | DJs & Dance Party: 9pm – after midnight | $10-20 suggested donation at the door
For more information, contact: dccispes@yahoo.com, lisa@cispes.org or call Lisa (202) 521-2510 ext. 204.


radicalrootsLos Angeles CISPES 30th Anniversary Party – Saturday, Dec 11:

7 pm – midnight:
CARECEN
2845 West 7th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Celebrate 30 years of CISPES here in Los Angeles with food, music and good company!
For info contact lacispes@aol.com or 213 700-2460.
facebook event link

New York CISPES Anniversary Party! – Friday, Dec 17:
7 – 10pm
Brecht Forum

451 West Street (Between Bethune & Bank Sreets)
New York, NY 10014
Comeout for this evening of music and reminiscences, and celebrate the movement and its activists who still wage a mighty struggle to this day. Suggested donation: $30, including a dinner of pupusas and tamales,and one drink ticket. Donate or buy tickets in advance by Paypal at: http://nycispes.org/.
For more information, contact NY CISPES at nycispes@cispes.org or 917-214-3479.

Boston CISPES 30th Anniversary Party - Saturday, Jan 15:logo

Encuentro 5 (in Chinatown)
33 Harrison Ave, fifth floor
Boston, MA 02111
Veteran activists’ roundtable followed by a celebration, music, a raffle and dancing!  For more information, email boscispes@speakeasy.net or call 978.870.8880.
[too late! But check the link for pictures
Seattle CISPES Celebration - Sunday, Dec 5:
5-9 pm
Washington Hall
153 14th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
Joinus December 5th at Seattle’s historic Washington Hall from 5:00pm-9:00pm to commemorate past and present solidarity activism. Therewill be great food, music and dancing. This is an all ages event, $10-$30 suggested donation. Washington Hall is located at 153 14th Ave on the corner of 14th Ave and Fir.
For more information please contact Seattle CISPES at: (206) 325-5494. facebook event link]

Also,to learn more about the history of the El Salvador and Central America solidarity movement, check out our facebook profile for the “Daily Snapshot of CISPES history” - http://facebook.com/cispes.And for those of you that have been part of that history we encourage you to post comments and stories about the movement in El Salvador and the amazing work of CISPES through the years on facebook or on the 30th anniversary website.

Adelante!

CISPES


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We will be having immersion Spanish classes and workshops on different Latin American and environmental topics. This year we will be featuring workshops on socialism in Venezuela, Haiti after the earthquake, and the fight against gold mining in El Salvador. We will also discuss the connections between resource extraction in Latin America and the extraction of natural gas in the Marsalas Shale here in New York. There will be scrumptious vegetarian and vegan food, and of course singing by the campfire and dancing!

 

 



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STREET THEATER AND PROTEST @ THE CANADIAN CONSULATE!


12516th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets,

Manhattan,NY (B, D, F, or V to 47th-50th Streets)

12Noon (sharp!) – 2PM

 

RSVP and find out how you can help at http://snipurl.com/May10

 

Contact Phil Josselyn: 917.214.3479 (NY CISPES) or email info@tradejustice.net

 

Download NY flyer here

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]]> http://www.cispes.org/new-york/nyc-may-27-action-consulate-street-theaterprotest/feed/ 0 GRAN FIESTA BAILABLE – New York, September 12 http://www.cispes.org/new-york/gran-fiesta-bailable-new-york-september-12/ http://www.cispes.org/new-york/gran-fiesta-bailable-new-york-september-12/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:43:18 +0000 admin http://www.cispes.org/wordpress_test/?p=147 sept12.jpgDance Party!

(download flyer here )

Celebrate Central American Independence!

A FUNdraiser for NYCISPES

(New York Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador)
 
September 12, 2009
8:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

La Elegancia Centro Americana Restaurant
572 57th Street, West New York, NJ
(between Kennedy Boulevard and Bergenline Ave’s.)
 

Tickets: $20

Music by: D.J. Scorpion

Food, drinks

From NYC, take the #84 bus from the Port Authority, or, PATH train to Journal Square, then bus #159.

 For more information, call:
(917) 214-3479, (201) 658-1468, (551) 556-8640
or go to: www.cispes.org.

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GRAN FIESTA BAILABLE

con CISPES
(Comite en solidaridad con el Pueblo de El Salvador)

Hacemos una cordial invitacion a nuestra comunidad hispana
a celebrar juntos nuestra Independencia Centro Americana!

12 septiembre del 2009
hora. 8:00 p.m. a 1:45 a.m.
 
La Elegancia Centro Americana Restaurant
572 calle 57, West New York, NJ
(entre Kennedy Boulevard y Bergenline Ave’s.)

Tickets: $20

D.J. Scorpion

incluye, plato de comida y refrescos

de NYC, toma el bus #84 de Port Authority, o, toma el PATH tren a Journal Square, tambien bus #159

Informacion de tickets, lamar a:
(201) 658-1468, (551) 556-8640,
click: www.cispes.org.

]]> http://www.cispes.org/new-york/gran-fiesta-bailable-new-york-september-12/feed/ 0 NYC event! Latin America After the Honduran Coup http://www.cispes.org/new-york/nyc-event-latin-america-after-the-honduran-coup/ http://www.cispes.org/new-york/nyc-event-latin-america-after-the-honduran-coup/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:44:46 +0000 admin http://www.cispes.org/wordpress_test/?p=146 EMERGENCY TEACH-IN
The Obama Doctrine?:
Latin America After the Honduran Coup
Toward democracy as in El Salvador, or back to the past.

Wednesday, July 15
7:30 pm
The Brecht Forum
West Greenwich Village
451 West Street (that’s the West Side Highway) between Bank & Bethune Streets

Featuring:
Audelia Guadalupe Lopez de Kleutgens, Roberto Lovato, and Andres Conteris

As the people of Honduras struggle to hang on to their democracy andthe rest of Latin America and the world condemn the military coup, willthe US accept the status quo? Or will there be real pressure to restoreconstitutional order? Will the region move further toward democracy asin El Salvador, where the FMLN just took Presidential power through theMarch elections, or are we moving back toward an era of repressivemilitary rule. Learn about the different political forces at work inHonduras and how they are playing out through the period leading up toand including the coup. Hear about the consequences for the rest of theregion and what people are hoping to accomplish through the recentvictory in El Salvador. Discuss what the role of the United States hasbeen and what we can do here to support democracy in Central America.

RobertoLovato is also a frequent contributor to The Nation and the HuffingtonPost and his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the SanFrancisco Chronicle, Salon, Der Spiegel, Utne Magazine, La Opinion, andother national and international media outlets. He is a contributingAssociate Editor with New America Media and can be read at http://ofamerica.wordpress.com/

AudeliaLopez is a coordinating member of the FMLN’s National Women’sSecretariat, the body within the party that works for the advancementof female political leadership and the vindication of women’s rights.She is also the FMLN’s Adjunct Coordinator for the department ofChalatenango in the north of El Salvador, working on strategicdevelopment with Mayors and the FMLN’s local organizing efforts, and aSubstitute Deputy to the National Legislative Assembly.

AndresThomas Conteris, founder of Democracy Now! en Espanol, serves as theDirector of the Program on the Americas of Nonviolence Internationaland is active with the International Network for the Abolition ofForeign Military Bases. He is a filmmaker with Raven’s Call Productionsand Co-Producer of the award-winning documentary "Hidden in PlainSight."

Co-Sponsors: Committee in Solidarity with the People ofEl Salvador, North America Congress on Latin America and Left TurnMagazine

]]> http://www.cispes.org/new-york/nyc-event-latin-america-after-the-honduran-coup/feed/ 0 May Day Rally in New York http://www.cispes.org/new-york/may-day-rally-in-new-york/ http://www.cispes.org/new-york/may-day-rally-in-new-york/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:39:23 +0000 admin http://www.cispes.org/wordpress_test/?p=145 from http://www.may1.info/

Friday, May 1st 2009

Union Square
Assemble: 12 noon
14th St. & Broadway, Manhattan

Music & Performances: 4:00 pm
March to Federal Plaza: 5:30 pm

 

]]> http://www.cispes.org/new-york/may-day-rally-in-new-york/feed/ 0 The 2009 FMLN Victory in El Salvador: Strategy, Challenges, and Future http://www.cispes.org/new-york/the-2009-fmln-victory-in-el-salvador-strategy-challenges-and-future/ http://www.cispes.org/new-york/the-2009-fmln-victory-in-el-salvador-strategy-challenges-and-future/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:23:25 +0000 admin http://www.cispes.org/wordpress_test/?p=144  download flyer in spanish and english

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]]> http://www.cispes.org/new-york/the-2009-fmln-victory-in-el-salvador-strategy-challenges-and-future/feed/ 0 http://www.cispes.org/new-york/%c2%a1el-salvador-vencio/ http://www.cispes.org/new-york/%c2%a1el-salvador-vencio/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:51:25 +0000 admin http://www.cispes.org/wordpress_test/?p=143 ¡El Salvador Venció!
Reflections on the FMLNPresidential Election Victory

fmln_victory_girl.jpg

The recent victory of the FMLN presidential candidateMauricio Funes is an historic victory for the Salvadoran people, but its impactgoes beyond the boundaries of a small Central American nation. Tens ofthousands gave their lives to make this victory possible. A generation of NorthAmerican activists joined the Central American Solidarity movement in the1980s, while hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans immigrated North America toescape poverty and violence. Come to a discussion to assess and reflect on theimpact and implications of this historic event on the immigrant, Salvadoran-Americancommunity and progressive activists in the US.

April 2nd at 7:30 at the Brecht Forum
451 West St (at Bank)  in Manhattan

http://brechtforum.org/upcoming

Max García is the coordinator of the New York Chapter of theCommittee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador.
Roberto Lovato is a contributing associate editor with New AmericaMedia, frequent contributor to The Nation magazine and blogs atofamerica.wordpress.com. He recently covered the elections in El Salvador andconducted the first extensive interview with President-Elect Mauricio Funes ofany English language media outlet in the United States.

April 6th at 7pm NY CISPES's 2009 ElectionMonitoring  Mission Report Back at Blue Stockings
172 Allen Street in Manhattan

http://bluestockings.com/events/

Join members of NY CISPES's 2009 Election Monitoring delegation for amultimedia presentation and analysis of El Salvador's triumph.

April 7th, 7:00pm Resistancia y Solidaridad:El Salvador, Colombia and the U.S. Solidarity Movement. A Retrospective FilmScreening & Discussion
Deep Dish TV Presents Part Four of DIY Media:  MovementPerspectives on Critical Moments
Labowitz Theater of New York University 715 Broadway (at Washington Place) NewYork City

Presented in Collaboration with WBAI's Wake Up Call, and NY CISPES, thisspecial community forum is a retrospective film screening and panel discussionwhere filmmakers, activists and scholars will get together to discuss the U.S.role in Latin America, and how grassroots, solidarity organizing by U.S.activists has made a difference in resisting those policies. We willspecifically examine how video and other popular media forms have been used asa tool of resistance and solidarity.

Recent elections in El Salvador put the FMLN – the former guerilla group andlong-time opposition movement – in control of the government after years ofright wing domination, supported by Washington. In Colombia, the indigenous andpopular Minga of 2008 has sparked a renewed call for broad-based change in acountry that for years has been dominated by repressive, militarist leaders. Inboth these countries, as in other parts of the region, social movement activistshave used video technology and other alternative media to promote their callsfor change.  As part of Deep Dish TV's commitment to using media as a toolfor community empowerment, panelists will discuss some of the lessons learnedover the last 20 years of resistance and solidarity, and their efforts toresist militarism, corporate globalization and U.S. interventionism in thehemisphere.

Moderator: Mario A. Murillo
Mario A. Murillo is associate professor and Chair of the Radio, Television,Film Department of Hofstra University in New York, and the Friday morning hostof Wake Up Call on WBAI Pacifica Radio (99.5FM). The author of "Colombiaand the United States: War, Unrest and Destabilization," he is finishing abook about the indigenous movement in Colombia.

Panelists:
Greg Grandin is a professor of history at New York University, and theauthor of several books on the U.S. Role in Latin America, including "TheLast Colonial Massacre:  Latin America in the Cold War," and"Empire's Workshop:  Latin America, the United States, and the Riseof Imperialism."

Roberto Arevalo is a Columbian-born filmmaker and the founder of BeyondDocumentary.  He has produced over 20 documentaries about youth, publichealth, mental health, immigrant experiences, education and art. He iscurrently an artist-in-residence at Georgia State University.

Victoria Maldonado is a Columbian-born independent filmmaker and humanrights activist based in New York City. She helped create the Latino Film/VideoCollaborative, and is a founding member of Columbia Media Project. She iscurrently working on the Deep Dish TV series "Waves of Change: A Survey ofGlobal Community Media."

Phil Josselyn has been involved, in leadership roles, with the Committeein Support of the People of El Salvador (CISPES) since 1982. He recentlyreturned from participating in an international observer mission of thehistoric March 15th Salvadoran elections where the Farabundo Marti NationalLiberation Front (FMLN) won the Presidency of the country.

Max García
NY CISPES Coordinator
451 West Street
NY, NY 10014
(917) 214 – 3479
nycispes@cispes.org
www.cispes.org

]]> http://www.cispes.org/new-york/%c2%a1el-salvador-vencio/feed/ 0 New York, Nov. 11: “Unidos para 2009: Democracy in El Salvador” http://www.cispes.org/new-york/new-york-nov-11-unidos-para-2009-democracy-in-el-salvador/ http://www.cispes.org/new-york/new-york-nov-11-unidos-para-2009-democracy-in-el-salvador/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:48:25 +0000 admin http://www.cispes.org/wordpress_test/?p=142 Just how hard is the U.S.government working to prevent ElSalvador from going “left”?

 

Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: NACLA

38 GreeneSt. 4th Floor

New York,NY

View Map

 

Contact Info

Phone: (917) 214 –3479

Email: newyorkcispes@mindspring.com

Description

Join CISPES in kicking off the campaign to Defend theRight to Free and Fair Elections in El Salvador! Come to a discussionof the democratic forces at work in the transformation of LatinAmerica.

Panel Discussion with:

Claudia de Cuellar, former City Councilwoman, Ayutuxtepeque,El Salvador

JaimeHerrida, Vice-Consul, Consulate of Nicaragua, New York(invited)

Greg Wilpert, Journalist and Author, VenezuelaAnalysis.com

 

- Just how hard the USgovernment is working to prevent El Salvador from going “left”

- Impact of elections across LatinAmerica

- The next big elections in LatinAmerica—

El Salvador 2009!

Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador

 NY CISPES • P.O.Box 250762 NY, NY10025 • (917) 214 –3479 • www.cispes.org • newyorkcispes@mindspring.com

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