[Cispes-Alert] El Salvador Victory Tour! Support CISPES in bringing two FMLN leaders to the US in June/July

Wed May 27 10:41:51 EDT 2009

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May 27, 2009

Dear Friend in Victory,

On June 1st, Mauricio Funes of the FMLN will be inaugurated as the first
leftist President in the history of El Salvador, vowing to govern with what
Monseñor Romero once called a
<http://www.alternet.org/audits/132185/exclusive_interview_with_el_salvador%
27s_new_president_on_ending_130_years_of_oligarchy_and_military_rule_/>
“preferential option for the poor.”

To celebrate this historic moment, CISPES is sponsoring the ¡Viene el
Cambio! (Change is coming!) El Salvador 2009 Victory Tour.  We are only
weeks away from the start of the tour and we
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>  need
your help to take it far and wide!  

We are bringing two
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=17&
Itemid=53>  leaders from the Salvadoran social movement to cities across the
U.S. to:

1) Celebrate the Salvadoran people’s victory over the fear campaign and
electoral fraud of the Salvadoran and US right

2)  Educate the broad US progressive public about the significance of the
<http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/lovato>  victory the challenges ahead
in building a more just El Salvador and the role that international
solidarity can play in this new stage of the struggle

3)  Raise money for Salvadoran social
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=60&
Itemid=86>  movement organizing projects through CISPES Material Aid

4)  Strengthen ties with other sectors of the US progressive movement,
particularly labor unions, immigrant rights organizations, Salvadoran and/or
religious community groups. (Please contact CISPES Program Director
Elizabeth at elizabeth at cispes.org if you are part of a group that would like
to participate)

If you are in Seattle, Olympia, Portland, Bay Area, Los Angeles, Albuquerque
or Austin, keep on the lookout for William
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=570&Itemid=
51>  Hernandez, FMLN deputy to the Central American Parliament from June
6-23! 

If you are in Washington DC, New York, Boston, Chicago, Madison or
Minneapolis, please join us in welcoming Breny
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=571&Itemid=
51>  Herrera from the Women’s Secretariat of the FMLN from July 6-19! 

(Click to read the tour
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=17&
Itemid=53>  schedule and download flyers)

The total cost for this tour will be around $3000. We have already raised
half of it with the support of people like you and we need to raise $1500
more! We
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>  just
need 15 people to give $100 now so we can finish buying plane tickets - can
you be one of them?

As the U.S. social movement struggles to define itself under the Obama
administration, this tour is an exciting opportunity to learn about
successful organizing strategies that led to this unprecedented victory in
El Salvador, both over the right-wing ARENA party and over the political and
economic program that the United States has pushed at times through the
barrel of a gun. This exploitative system of free trade and privatization is
being slowly replaced by people-centered, grassroots alternatives throughout
Latin America.  Join us during the Victory Tour to learn what made this
victory possible and how people like you and me can continue to build a
movement for social and economic justice throughout the Americas.

You probably haven’t been seeing much about these exciting changes in the
mainstream news (although you may have been following the great online
series
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=562&Itemid=
29> “What We Want: Voices of the Salvadoran Left”) but with your help, we
can bring our speakers to as many cities as possible to spread the word
about the next leftist government in the Americas. Please
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=296>  make
a generous contribution today!

En solidaridad,

Burke Stansbury

CISPES Executive Director

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