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</span></font><b><font size=6 color=red face="Arial Narrow"><span
style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";color:red;font-weight:
bold'>Stop <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
intervention in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>The People’s Pledge
to Defend Free & Fair Elections in El Salvador<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>(Click
below to take the pledge or <a
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=452&Itemid=60">here
to download the pledge</a> and collect signatures in your community.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><a href="http://www.cispes.org/pledge2009"><font color=navy><span
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<p class=MsoPlainText><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:italic'>Given
that:<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>• The peoples of
every nation have the right to political self-determination and autonomy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>• The <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> government has a long history of
outright manipulation of political, social & economic conditions in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>
to its own financial and political gain AND without concern for the
wellbeing of the Salvadoran people.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>• The <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> government regularly channels funds—through
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National
Endowment for Democracy (NED)—to destabilize popularly supported leftist
governments across the globe, and particularly in Latin America, where
countries are humanely rebuilding their nations to generate prosperity for
all and to escape the stranglehold of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> hegemony.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>• The <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
government has consistently and systematically interfered in the Salvadoran
electoral process since the end of the civil war in 1992, through a
premeditated combination of lies, malicious manipulation and diplomatic
threats. One example: before the 2004 Presidential election, members of the
U.S. Congress threatened to deport Salvadoran immigrants and cut off money
being sent home to families if the ruling right wing party were not
re-elected.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>• The President of <st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region> openly called for U.S
intervention in the upcoming elections during his November 2007 visit to <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">DC</st1:State></st1:place>,
in a public event where he received the 2007 “Freedom Award” from the
International Republican Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>• The Bush
Administration has already begun to intervene in the 2009 elections in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region> through federal harassment of
CISPES—limiting the support that concerned people in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> can give for free and fair elections in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>As such, it is our
duty as conscientious people—imbued with our own political strength—to
curtail this profound abuse of power and influence. We pledge to take
decisive action in the event of any statement or action made by elected or
appointed U.S. officials, including members of the United States Congress,
State Department, foreign embassies, and the White House, that intend to
control the outcome of the 2009 presidential, municipal or legislative
elections in El Salvador.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>By pledging, we
place ourselves on “active alert,” poised to hold protest actions and to
call on <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> government
officials as part of a direct, national response to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> intervention in the 2009
Salvadoran elections.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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democracy we will raise our voices and take action in defense of the
Salvadoran people’s right to determine their own fate.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I pledge to <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>(please click the link below to take the pledge):</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>□ Join a
coordinated, national protest action (marches, demonstration, vigils, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>□ Call on the
President and Congress (lobbying, letter-writing, phone calling)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>□ Actively organize
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>□ Join the January
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