<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Celebrate 25yrs of US/El Salvador Solidarity this Saturday 5/14!!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>San José Las Flores is turning 25 and Cambridge is celebrating!! </b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Join the Cambridge/El Salvador Sister City Project for an evening of art, music, and food to celebrate 25 years of Salvadoran struggle and Cambridge solidarity!. and support Cambridge’s June delegation to San José las Flores. <br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">There will be a <b>full Salvadoran dinner</b> - rice, beans, chicken and more…. <b>Live music </b>– listen and dance to jazz standards by The Embraceables with Harvey Cox, Jim Wallace, Rod Nordell, Bill Gnichtel and Brian O'Connell<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> and a <b>Silent auction </b>with: Photographs and cards - Jaime Camacho, Gloria Carrigg, Cathy Hoffman, Prints- Phyllis Ewen, Hector Perlera Guillen. Books - Elkin Echeverri, Santiago Miranda and more….<br> <br><b>$25 suggested donation to include dinner. All size donations accepted.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Since its courageous repopulation in June of 1986, San José Las Flores has persevered – rebuilding, reforesting and reinventing itself –</b> Health care for all, schooling through 12<sup>th</sup> grade with scholarships for college, cooperatives for women and for forestry and cattle, green farming and Ecotourism, community decision-making, youth leadership, political success…..</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>US/El Sister Cities is turning 25 and the whole network is celebrating.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">More than 2 dozen communities across the US have paired with repopulated communities to strengthen their efforts for organizing and sustainability….</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>The struggles go on – against gold mining, neo-liberal trade policies, privatization, orchestrated violence, and remilitarization. And so do the relationships.</b> In June a delegation of new and old, Salvadoran organizers in the US and solidarity activists will go to El Salvador to celebrate the 25<sup>th</sup> in Las Flores and meet with organizers and activists in the capitol.</p><br><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Facebook event: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/event.php?eid=205521606146082">http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=205521606146082</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">For tax deductible donation send checks to: IPC, PO Box 390-325, Cambridge, MA 02139 <b>OR</b> Donate securely online: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/DonateIPC">http://tinyurl.com/DonateIPC</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> For more information, <a href="mailto:cambridgeelsalvador@gmail.com" target="_blank">cambridgeelsalvador@gmail.com</a></p><br clear="all"><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>