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Dear Friend in Solidarity,
 
Greetings this holiday season!  As 2009 comes to a close, we are celebrating
the tremendous victory for El Salvador and US solidarity!  Wouldn’t it be
great to give a gift i
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296> n
honor of the struggle to build a just economic alternative from the ground
up?
 
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.
 
It’s time for us to thank our friends and compañeros inspiring us to keep up
the struggle!  By making a donation of $40 or more to CISPES
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296> , 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!
 
It’s easy and secure to give a tax-deductible gift of solidarity, just click
here! <http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296> 
  
muralFollowing 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, two North American mining
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNKj6j-swnQ>  corporations are suing the new
FMLN government for at least $180 million.   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.
 
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
increased violent repression,
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=621&Itemid=
1>  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: “The struggle against mining has already been won
in El Salvador.  Now it will be won or lost in the U.S!”

pacrim
[CISPES activists protest outside Pacific Rim Headquarters in Vancouver  BC]

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 by taking action here!
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=631&Itemid=
27%20> 
 
But that’s not all! CISPES is building a movement in the US to challenge the
laws that let corporate profit trump the needs of people.  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!
 
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!
 
This holiday season we hope you will give the gift of solidarity to remember
those who have inspired you to fight for justice and help us stop corporate
abuse in Central America. Together, we will win!
 
In solidarity,
 
Alexis Stoumbelis, Executive Director
 
P.S. Help us stop corporate extortion of El Salvador! Please give as
generously as you can today
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296> . Be
sure to include the name and address of your Gift of Solidarity recipient in
the comments line!



 


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