Francisco Lopez is a Field Director with Voz Hispana VoteProject affiliated with PCUN, Oregon'sFarmworker Union a Woodburn-based organization that seeks to empower Latinos byincreasing their participation in the American democratic process. They do thisby strengthening the capacity, experience and skills of Latino leaders,networks, and organizations through actions that consistently train, ...

Oscar Torees: A BiographyOscar Torres –writer/producer of InnocentVoices (Voces Inocentes) and now producer/writer/director of “La Vida No EsIgual” (Life Is Not The Same), a film about the children that live in thestreets of Latin America.Born in the rural villageof Cuscatancingo, El Salvador in1971, Oscar Torres was caught in the crossfire ...

Biography of Claudia de Cuellar forEast Coast CISPES TourClaudia deCuellar is a Salvadoran who recently immigrated to the United Statesfor economic reasons.  She grew up in amunicipality north of San Salvador and hercommitment to social change and building democracy led her to eventually jointhe city council in the town of ...

This fall CISPES is touring two social movement leaders from El Salvador: Josefina Lazo from the National Market Vendors Movement and Ricardo Calderon from the Salvadoran Union Front (FSS.) See below for more information and their respective itineraries.CISPES West Coast Touree: Josefina Lazo check out this video of Josefina ...

Sun Oct28  - Wed Oct31:  Los Angels (contact 323 556-1932 for details)Wed Oct31 - Sat ...

DC,New York, Pittsburgh, Boston,Minneapolis Thurs Nov1        arrive in DCFri Nov2           DCSat ...

Written by Jacoby Ballard December 18, 2006From Upsidedownworld: http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/551/74/ The TVscreen showed hundreds of people yelling, pushing, punching andstruggling. Oswaldo Nataren, a student activist touring the U.S.withCISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) didn'tunderstand the English commentary and thought that this news on CNN wasfootage of people rioting ...

check out this video about student protests in El Salvador:  {flv}medio_pasaje{flv}

CISPES Fall Tour ItineraryLos Angeles, CA October 28-31contact: Frankie Flores 323 852-0721San Francisco, CA October 31-Nov. 2contact: Yeni Solis 415 503-0789Portland, OR November 2-4contact: Dan Denvir 503 236 7916Olympia, WA November 4-6contact: Josh Elliott 360 943-5344Seattle, WA November 6-9contact: Cameron Herrington 206 325 5494Denver, CO November 9-11contact: Ricardo Urrutia 720 ...

“Building Resistance: Salvadoran Youth in the Global Struggle” Speaking Biography of Jose Oswaldo Nataren Born in 1979 in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jose Oswaldo Sanchez Nataren is a visual arts student at the National University of El Salvador. Oswaldo is a founding member and leader of the Roque ...