[act-ma] 8/7 Thurs: Fact-Finding Report Back Direct from El Salvador

[boscispes at speakeasy.net]

With the elections just a few months away come and hear how the powerful
Salvadoran movement--and the U.S. government--are gearing up for these crucial
elections!  
 
EL SALVADOR DELEGATION REPORT BACK

Thursday August 7 @ 6pm

Symposium Books: (near Kenmore T stop)
526 Commonwealth Ave, Boston   02215

Accounts from meetings with:

--Political prisoners

--Revolutionary student organizers

--U.S. Ambassador Charles Glazer

The historic revolutionary leftist party may sweep the Salvadoran right-wing
out of power in 2009.   With the right-wing in disarray, the sense of hope
and change is palpable in El Salvador. Nonetheless, the Salvadoran right's
greatest ally--the US government--remains poised to protect one of its last
strongholds in Latin America.

Laura Embree-Lowry traveled to El Salvador as part of a fact-finding
delegation, to gather information on potential fraud, political violence and
electoral manipulation during this critical pre-elections period.   She met
with historic ex-guerillas who are now leaders in the FMLN, recently
released political prisoners, Salvadoran electoral experts, and participated
in a heated meeting with US Ambassador Charles Glazer.  She also visited
community clinics and youth centers in FMLN-controlled municipalities, where
the FMLN vision for a better, more just El Salvador has become a reality.

Come hear her experiences and join in a discussion about how you can  be
part of this critical moment in Salvadoran history that may shake the status
quo of our hemisphere.

For more information, contact:

Boston CISPES
2161 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140

tel: 617.576.1709
email: boscispes at speakeasy.net