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How You Can Help the Salvadoran Activists

Authors: US-El Salvador Sister Cities [3]
US-El Salvador Sister Cities is a network accompanying and accompanied by our sister communities and movements in El Salvador. By working in solidarity, we join the same struggle for sustainable communities, dignity, and self-determination in both countries. To learn more and receive regular updates and advocacy alerts, contact us at US-ESC, POB 2543, Plattsburgh, NY 12901; 585/360-1985; www.elsalvadorsolidarity.org [4]

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Atlanta, GA, June 2007. US Social Forum. ©2007 Skip Schiel

Call the State Department and demand that the United States government encourage the Salvadoran government to respect the right to peaceful protest.  Call Jeremy Cornforth at the US State Department's El Salvador Desk at 202/647-3505.

Sample Script for El Salvador Desk at the US State Department

You can use the following "script" to talk to Mr. Cornforth. If at any point you get cut off, be sure to ask the final question -- "will you call the ambassador and assure that he calls for the terrorism charges be dropped?"

 

  • I'm calling because I am very concerned about the July 2 arrests of the people protesting water privatization in Suchitoto, El Salvador.

     

  • The Salvadoran police violently captured community leaders - shooting rubber bullets and tear gas at close range - and local community members and is now charging them with terrorism.

     

  • The Salvadoran government's disproportionate reaction raises serious concerns about human rights and the freedom of organization and expression.

     

  • The US government has publicly supported the Salvadoran government, including supporting the passage of the anti-terrorism law last September.

     

  • It is extremely important that the U.S. stand up for human rights everywhere and not let protest be criminalized in the name of a so-called fight against terrorism.

     

  • Will you call Ambassador Glazer and tell him to call for the terrorism charges to be dropped?
From Issue 378 - September 2007 [5]

Regions: El Salvador [6] United States [7]

Categories: 3.05.03 dialogue and reconciliation [8] 3.05.06 social transformation [9] 4.02.14 nonviolent direct action campaigns [10] 5.01.07 allying for justice - how tos [11] 5.02.04 countering violations of civil liberties [12] 5.03.08 globalizing liberation, solidarity, protest [13] 5.09.07 latina-latino hispanic chicana-chicano liberation [14] 5.16.05 allying against oppression [15]


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