CISPES on Democracy Now! and your last chance to donate in 2009!

[Alexis Stoumbelis, CISPES]

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Dear friend in solidarity,

 

As you know, 2009 has been a historic year for El Salvador and for CISPES
with the election of the first FMLN government in El Salvador. We hope you
are as rewarded as we are by the solidarity role we played from within the
U.S., stopping U.S. intervention and sending one our largest delegations of
elections observers. Please make a tax-deductible
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>
donation today to keep this momentum going in 2010!

 

Sadly, recent assassinations of anti-mining activists Marcelo Rivera, Ramiro
Rivera and Alicia Sorto in Cabañas show just how dangerous it can be to
defend your community’s right to land and water and to stand up to
corporations like Pacific Rim mining. 

 

But thanks to your support and participation, we have taken immediate and
effective action to support the resistance in El Salvador!

 

*	CISPES brought this story
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=656&Itemid=
1>  to Democracy Now! on Tuesday, getting the news about the crisis in
Cabañas and the role of the United States via CAFTA, the Central American
Free Trade Agreement to thousands of progressives across the country.

 

*	Over 500 of you have written to us with copies of your emails
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=33&
Itemid=27>  to Salvadoran Attorney General demanding a thorough
investigation and an end to this terror campaign. President Funes and the
leadership of the FMLN have echoed your call in their denouncements
<http://www.contrapunto.com.sv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=
2044:fmln-exige-investigacion-exhaustiva-en-crimenes-de-ambientalistas&catid
=42:otrascp&Itemid=101>  to the press.

 

*	The Vancouver, B.C. headquarters of Pacific Rim have been flooded
with your phone calls and emails demanding they withdraw their outrageous
lawsuit against the government of El Salvador. They must not want to hear
any more from us since they have already shut down the email account and
voice mail box!

 

*	CISPES is supporting an emergency mobilization in Cabañas next week,
as communities join together and demand an end to the violence that has
taken three leaders of their struggle. ¡Marcelo, Ramiro and Alicia,
presente!

 

We are fortunate to have such a committed and active base of supporters like
you. With your action and with your financial support, we can ensure that
CISPES will be there when it counts, in the weeks and months to come. Today
is your last chance to give a gift of solidarity in 2009—please make a
generous (and tax-deductible)
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>
contribution today.

 

¡La lucha sigue!

 

Alexis Stoumbelis

CISPES Executive Director

 

P.S. If you send a tax-deductible
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>
donation of $60 or more today, we’ll send you a CD of revolutionary music
from El Salvador and a t-shirt commemorating the historic victory to keep
you inspired in the ongoing fight for justice. ¡Mil gracias!

 

 

 


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