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December 20, 2008

Dear Friend,

 <http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296> 

We hope this finds you in the spirit of struggle and resistance! 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?

This holiday season, we invite you to give the gift of solidarity! Give
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>  to
CISPES in honor of someone in your life would be inspired by our grassroots
organizing to stop U.S.-backed
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>
repression and to stand up for sovereignty in Latin America.

If you make
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>  a
donation of $40 or more to CISPES before January 1, 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.

We in CISPES are inspired by the
<http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-el-salvadors-water-p
rivatization-and-the-global-war-on-terror/> strength of the social movement
organizing against corporate privatization and by the tremendous popular
support for the leftist party in the upcoming elections (The
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=496&Itemid=
28#_FMLN_candidate_Funes>  FMLN is up 13% in the polls!). This victory from
below will represent the constant struggle for social and economic justice
by generations of Salvadorans. 

But the right-wing is desperately
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=439&lang=en
>  lashing out in a dangerous last bid for power. Our solidarity from the
U.S. is urgently needed in the months! 

 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om47szVuA6I>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om47szVuA6I>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbx9pYAc2qQ&>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbx9pYAc2qQ&> 

You may not have seen this ad <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om47szVuA6I> ,
but Salvadorans are being barraged by the right-wing ARENA party’s dirty
campaign every day. These ads charge that the US will restrict the money
that Salvadorans in the US 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.

Make no mistake about it—ARENA is depending on the complicity of the US
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg> government to make those scare
tactics work again!

That’s where CISPES comes in! We’re firing back with a video of our own --
Unidos por El Cambio! Watch it here
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg>  to see international
solidarity in action.

Join us in taking action before March 2009:

* Pressure
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=457&Itemid=
27>  Congress to take a stand of non-intervention and declare their
neutrality in El Salvador’s elections 

* Flood El Salvador with statements
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=488&Itemid=
29>  of support for fair elections (If your organization will sign on,
please contact burke at cispes.org)

* 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 ARENA. Join the mobilization and take the
<http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1009557>  Pledge today!

* Monitor both the January and March elections to expose fraud and
irregularities. To apply for the March
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=417&Itemid=
51>  delegation (our biggest in years!), send an email to
elizabeth at cispes.org

Our Campaign to Defend Free and Fair Elections in El Salvador is well
underway to insure that US intervention doesn’t thwart the will of the
Salvadoran people. 

Our allies in the social movement tell us that the prospects for change in
El Salvador are better now than they have been at any time since the signing
of the Peace Accords. 

But we in CISPES know that now is not the time to be complacent. Now is the
time to give it everything we have! 

The elections are only three months away--please
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>  give
the gift of solidarity today! Join our compañeros and compañeros who have
been fighting for this victory for over thirty years in declaring ¡Sí se
puede!

In solidarity,

Burke Stansbury, CISPES Executive Director

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
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296> give
as generously as you can today. Be sure to include the name and address of
your Gift of Solidarity recipient in the comments line!

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© 2008 CISPES - The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
CISPES National Office | ph. 202-521-2510 | 1525 Newton St. NW, Wash. DC
20010| cispes at cispes.org

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