August 12 in Olympia, Wa: Building Popular Power – From Washington to El Salvador

August 1, 2011
final_friday_event_flyerdownload flyer for August 12 event We will be kicking off the 14th National CISPES Convention with a great public event before we chart our own solidarity path for the next two years! Friday, August 11, 2011 Please join us for the  "Building Popular Power" Convention fundraiser and kick-off event, with speakers, ...

Reflections on the Northwest Latin American Solidarity Conference

May 24, 2010
By Ana Lottis, Seattle CISPES We gathered between April 9 and 11at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington: Over seventy of us,representing twenty-four organizations, with seven hundred years of combinedexperience as organizers and activists. We came from several Northwest cities –Portland, Olympia, Tacoma, Seattle, Bellingham, and Vancouver, B.C. – and ...

The Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project

April 1, 2010
oly_rafah_muralOlympia CISPES is involved in the project to build a beautiful solidarity mural in Olympia, Washington.  The leaf pictured below includes Salvadoran revolutionary Farabundo Marti and the martyred Archbishop Monseñor Romero.  More information is at www.olympiarafahmural.org

CISPES Committees Take to the Streets!

November 24, 2009
pacrim5by Cameron Herrington, Seattle CISPES             With a series of coordinated actions and events held in mid-October, CISPES and allies across the United States and Canada publicly launched a transnationalpeople's movement to stop exploitative metallic mining in El Salvador before itstarts. The series of events culminated on October 16 with a ...

Olympia CISPES chapter profile

June 16, 2009
oly_cispes The Olympia Chapter of CISPES has been working hard this spring to bring the victory in El Salvador home to the South Puget Sound area of Washington state. Olympia was lucky enough to have three folks travel to El Salvador to witness the triumph of real democracy in El ...

La Lucha Continua en Olympia!!

October 1, 2007
The Olympia chapter of CISPES is bringing the struggle to the south puget sound!Olympia CISPES is proud to have two parts of our chapter. The first of which is the Olympia proper chapter, the second is the student group at The Evergreen State College. Both of our 'legs' ...

Olympia CISPES en la lucha!

November 27, 2006
Olympia CISPES has been very busy in 2005-2006.  We have become an official student group at The Evergreen State College and our committee’s membership has increased greatly.  Our successful outreach is largely the result of the local committee’s efforts to send CISPES activists to El Salvador, especially last year's election ...