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font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:black'>December 20, 2008</span></font></b><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>Dear Friend,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296"></a><a
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>We hope this
finds you in the <font color=red><span style='color:red'>spirit of struggle
and resistance</span></font>! At this time of year, wouldn’t it be
great to give a gift that helps to build a just economic alternative from
the ground up?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in'><font size=2
face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>This
holiday season, we invite you to give the gift of solidarity!<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> <u><a
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296">Give
to CISPES in honor</a></u></span></font> <font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>of </span></font>someone in your life would be inspired
by our grassroots organizing to stop U.S.-backed </span></font><font
face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><a
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296"></a></span></font><font
size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>repression and to stand up for sovereignty in <st1:place
w:st="on">Latin America</st1:place><font color=navy><span style='color:
navy'>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>If you <u><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><a
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296">make
a donation</a></span></font></u> of $40 or more to CISPES<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:
black'>before January 1</span></font>, we will send you (or as a gift to
someone you choose) a collection of the news from the Salvadoran social
movement (you won’t find that in the newspapers!), an 8.5 x 11 print
of our solidarity mural, and a CD of revolutionary music from El Salvador
to inspire you to keep on fighting for justice.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:black'>We
in CISPES are inspired by the </span></font><font size=2 color=navy
face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><a
href="http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-el-salvadors-water-privatization-and-the-global-war-on-terror/"><span
style='text-decoration:none'>strength of the social movement organizing
against corporate privatization</span></a></span></font><font size=2
color=black face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:black'> and by the tremendous popular
support for the leftist party in the upcoming elections (<a
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=496&Itemid=28#_FMLN_candidate_Funes">The
FMLN is up 13% in the polls!</a>). This victory from below will represent
the constant struggle for social and economic justice by generations of
Salvadorans. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:black'>But
the right-wing is </span></font><font size=2 color=navy
face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><a
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=439&lang=en">desperately
lashing out</a></span></font><font size=2 color=black
face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:black'> in a dangerous last bid for power. Our solidarity from the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
is urgently needed in the months! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om47szVuA6I"></a><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbx9pYAc2qQ&"></a></span></font><font
face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbx9pYAc2qQ&"></a></span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>You may not have
seen <u><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om47szVuA6I">this ad</a></span></font></u>,
but Salvadorans are being barraged by the right-wing ARENA party’s
dirty campaign every day. These ads charge that the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> will restrict the money that Salvadorans in
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
send home if the FMLN’s candidate Mauricio Funes triumphs next March.
These same bogus threats scared many out of voting for the left in 2004, as
over half of Salvadoran families depend on this income.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";font-weight:bold'>Make
no mistake about it</span></font></b><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>—ARENA is
depending on the complicity of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> </span></font><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg"></a><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg"></a><font
face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg"></a></span></font><font
size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>government to make those scare tactics work again!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>That’s
where CISPES comes in! We’re firing back with a video of our own -- <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Unidos por El Cambio!</span></i> Watch it <b><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg">here</a></span></font></b>
to see international solidarity in action.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=red face="Lucida Sans"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans";color:red;font-weight:
bold'>Join us in taking action before March 2009:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>«</span></font><font size=1
face="Lucida Sans"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans"'>
<u><a
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=457&Itemid=27">Pressure
Congress</a></u> to take a stand of non-intervention and declare their
neutrality in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">E</st1:PersonName>l Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
elections <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Lucida Sans"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>«</span></font><font size=1
face="Lucida Sans"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans"'>
Flood <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:PersonName w:st="on">E</st1:PersonName>l
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Salvador</st1:City></st1:place></st1:country-region>
with <u><a
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=488&Itemid=29">statements
of support</a></u> for fair elections (If your organization will sign on,
please contact <a href="mailto:burke@cispes.org">burke@cispes.org</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Lucida Sans"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>«</span></font><font size=1
face="Lucida Sans"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans"'>
Hit the streets with our grassroots “People’s Pledge”
to recruit new activists who will protest with us against US intervention
or fraud and violence by AR<st1:PersonName w:st="on">E</st1:PersonName>NA.
Join the mobilization and <a
href="http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1009557">take the
Pledge today</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Lucida Sans"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>«</span></font><font size=1
face="Lucida Sans"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans"'>
Monitor both the January and March elections to expose fraud and
irregularities. To apply for the <a
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=417&Itemid=51">March
delegation</a> (our biggest in years!), send an email to <a
href="mailto:elizabeth@cispes.org">elizabeth@cispes.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>Our Campaign to
Defend Free and Fair Elections in <st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region>
is well underway to insure that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> intervention doesn’t thwart
the will of the Salvadoran people. <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>Our allies in
the social movement tell us that the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>prospects
for change in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> are better now than they have
been at any time since the signing of the Peace Accords.</span></b> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>But we in CISPES
know that now is not the time to be complacent.<b><span style='font-weight:
bold'> Now is the time to give it everything we have! <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>The elections
are only three months away--<u><a
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296">please
give the gift of solidarity today!</a></u> Join our <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>compañeros</span></i> and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>compañeros</span></i> who have been fighting for
this victory for over thirty years in declaring <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>¡Sí se puede!<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>In solidarity,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>Burke Stansbury,
<font color=black><span style='color:black'>CISPES</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";font-style:italic'>P.S.
Help us insure that in March 2009 Salvadorans will also be celebrating a
“regime change”—a change we all can believe in! Please <u><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><a
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296"><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>give as generously as you can today</span></font></a></span></font></u>.
Be sure to include the name and address of your Gift of Solidarity recipient
in the comments line!</span></font></i><i><font size=2 color=navy
face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy;font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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