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style="font-style: italic;">Dear Friend in Solidarity,<br>
<br>
Greetings this holiday season! As 2009 comes to a close, we are
celebrating the tremendous victory for El Salvador and US solidarity!
<b>Wouldn’t it be great to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296">give
a gift i</a>n honor of the struggle to build a just economic
alternative from the ground up?</b><br>
<br>
All of us are where we are now because someone in our lives that has
shown us what it means to take a stand for justice. For CISPES, the
vivacious movement in El Salvador has inspired us to push for profound
social and economic change in the United States for nearly 30 years.<br>
<br>
<b>It’s time for us to thank our friends and compañeros
inspiring us to
keep up the struggle! </b> By <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296">making
a donation of $40 or more to CISPES</a>, we will send you (or as a gift
to someone you choose) a CD of revolutionary music from El Salvador and
a 8.5 x 11 print of our solidarity mural in honor of past struggles.
For any donation made over $60 we will also include a special t-shirt
commemorating the historic 2009 elections!<br>
<br>
I<b>t’s easy and secure to give a tax-deductible gift of solidarity, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296">just
click here!</a></b><br>
<br>
<img alt="mural"
src="cid:part3.00000208.06040009@cispes.org" align="right" height="189"
width="252">Following the election of the first leftist government in
El Salvador,
the people of El Salvador are now facing new obstacles. Most ominously
for El Salvador, <b>two North American <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNKj6j-swnQ">mining corporations
are suing</a> the new FMLN government for at least $180 million.</b>
How
can they get away with this? They are using CAFTA (The Central
American Free Trade Agreement) “investor protections” chapter, claiming
El Salvador owes them “lost profits,” having refused to grant gold
mining permits.<br>
<br>
In October, CISPES hosted a delegation of Salvadoran anti-mining
activists who received a prestigious human rights award for their work
in the face of i<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=621&Itemid=1">ncreased
violent repression,</a> including the assassination of Marcelo Rivera.
Activists spoke at events in Washington DC and went on tour to CISPES
committees in the Pacific Northwest. We heard their call for solidarity
loud and clear. As one anti-mining activist said: <b>“The struggle
against
mining has already been won in El Salvador. Now it will be won or lost
in the U.S!”</b><br>
<br>
<img alt="pacrim"
src="cid:part4.08060003.01050509@cispes.org" align="left" height="212"
width="324"></span></span></font><br clear="all">
<b><small>[CISPES activists protest outside Pacific Rim
Headquarters in Vancouver BC</small></b>]<br>
<br>
<font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans";"><span
style="font-style: italic;">That’s why CISPES launched our new
campaign this fall, mobilizing people across the country to pressure
Pacific Rim to drop the lawsuits and to pressure El Salvador’s Attorney
General to investigate this death-squad style violence. Please echo
their call <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=631&Itemid=27%20">by
taking action here!</a><br>
<br>
But that’s not all! <b>CISPES is building a movement in the US to
challenge the laws that let corporate profit trump the needs of
people. </b>Free trade is holding backing the critical transformation
that
the people of El Salvador and Central America need, and CISPES will be
there with them in this struggle!<br>
<br>
Stopping these lawsuits and ending CAFTA will be a hard fight. But so
was ending the war, implementing the Peace Accords, and electing the
first FMLN president. With your support CISPES played a key role in
all of these victories!<br>
<br>
This holiday season we hope you <b>will give the gift of solidarity to
remember those who have inspired you to fight for justice</b> and help
us
stop corporate abuse in Central America. Together, we will win!<br>
<br>
In solidarity,<br>
<br>
Alexis Stoumbelis, Executive Director<br>
<br>
P.S. Help us stop corporate extortion of El Salvador! Please <a
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href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296">give
as generously as you can today</a>. Be sure to include the name and
address of your Gift of Solidarity recipient in the comments line!<br>
<br>
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