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<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>(Please forward widely.)</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Hello, </FONT><BR>
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<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>I'm looking for folks who might want to table with their activist/solidarity organization at this benefit party for El Salvador election observers. Especially those who do solidarity work in Central and Latin America. There will be a lot of people there from several different communities and backgrounds. A good way to mix it up with local leftys and newbies. See info below and attached flyer.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Contact: </FONT><BR>
<BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>Brian O’Connell</FONT><BR>
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<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000>(617) 947-8983</FONT></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal><A href="mailto:vinniechops@hotmail.com"><FONT color=#000000>vinniechops@hotmail.com</FONT></A></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><STRONG>Electoral Observer Delegation Kickoff Party for CISPES</STRONG> </SPAN>(</FONT></FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.cispes.org/"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>www.cispes.org</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><STRONG>Friday, February 27 @ 8:00pm.</STRONG></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><STRONG>Encuentro 5 <o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">33 Harrison Ave</SPAN></st1:address></st1:Street><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">, floor 5<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">617-482-6300 <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">Suggested Donation: $10<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Featuring <STRONG>LIVE MUSIC </STRONG>by: </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Chris Eastburn & members of the Family Folk Choral (</FONT><A href="http://www.eastburnmusic.com/"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>www.eastburnmusic.com/</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>) </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Mary Casiello (</FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.myspace.com/marycasiello"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>www.myspace.com/marycasiello</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>This is a benefit for a CISPES delegation to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> in March to monitor the presidential elections. (</FONT><A href="http://www.cispes.org/"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>www.cispes.org</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO ON THE ELECTIONS IN <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">EL SALVADOR</st1:place></st1:country-region>: </FONT><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg&eurl=http://www.cispes.org/"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg&eurl=http://www.cispes.org/</FONT></A></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>This is a benefit for a CISPES delegation to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> in March to monitor the presidential elections. (</FONT><A href="http://www.cispes.org/"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://www.cispes.org/</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>There is a need to raise money for travel costs. This is a vital time to pay attention to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region> and to support the grassroots people’s struggle. For the first time in history the grassroots opposition party in the form of the FMLN is poised to win the presidency. This would be an unprecedented victory for the people of <st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region> (and in <st1:place w:st="on">Central America</st1:place>) who have lived through extreme suffering at the hands of our own government simply for demanding their human rights. An FMLN presidential win would diminish the control of <st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State> in <st1:place w:st="on">Central America</st1:place>, provide a beacon of inspiration to the oppressed people in the region, and bring the tide of the Latin American Democracy movement further north. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">There is an important need for international election observers as the electoral tampering and corruption is rampant. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>We need to raise awareness and MONEY for the delegation. There was a huge movement of solidarity with the people of <st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region> in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> during the 80’s. It’s time to put our attention back on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region>. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO: </FONT><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg&eurl=http://www.cispes.org/"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9CqRotR3qg&eurl=http://www.cispes.org/</FONT></A></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Here’s a little background: </FONT></P>
<H4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt"><STRONG><FONT size=3><st1:country-region w:st="on"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">El Salvador</SPAN></st1:country-region><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> is Spanish for <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></STRONG></H4>
<P style="mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt"><FONT color=#000000><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">El Salvador</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> first made international headlines with the March 24, 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, who had spoken out publically on the alarming human rights violations taking place through state repression of social-justice movements. With growing impunity, the U.S.-backed government resorted to massacres and death squad attacks aimed at a surging popular movement attached to a small, but growing, nucleus of armed revolutionary forces. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>In 1981, Ronald Reagan rode into office determined to "draw a line in the sand" against the tide of socialist revolution in <st1:place w:st="on">Central America</st1:place>. These grassroots movements where challenging the status quo that had always acted in the interests of US Corporations rather than in the interests of their own people. <st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region> became the site of the largest U.S.-backed counterinsurgency war since <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region>. During the 12-year civil war, the U.S. government spent over $6 Billion on direct military assistance and training for the Salvadoran armed forces and police, many of these US backed forces where trained in terrorism techniques at the infamous School of Americas at Ft. Benning, GA (</FONT><A href="http://www.soawatch.org/">www.soawatch.org</A><FONT color=#000000>). The result was that 75,000 Salvadorans were killed, untold numbers were tortured and terrorized, and over 1.5 million were displaced (many to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>).<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>For more info check out: <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>Wikipedia Page on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region></FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>: </FONT><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_El_Salvador">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_El_Salvador</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT color=#000000>"<st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region> is Spanish for <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region>": The Legacy of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place> Peace Movement</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/ltv.htm">http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/ltv.htm</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>Please contact me if you are a musician who would like to perform at a benefit show or if you would like to help in any other way that you can. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>In Solidarity, <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>Brian O’Connell<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>617-647-8983<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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