Mchenry County College’s Student Peace
Action Network and Student Life along with Crystal Lake’s “Friends of Chilama”
present “U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities” on Thursday October 10, 2013 at 7:00
p.m. in Room B-166 on the MCC campus.
Speakers from U.S.-El Salvador Sister
Cities will discuss the situation in El Salvador and the Salvadoran social
movement as part of the October Speaking Tour with community leader Esmeralda
Villalta. They will discuss community organizing strategies and discuss how to show
your solidarity with the Salvadoran people as they defend their human and
environmental rights.
Libby Pappalardo started the Crystal
Lake Sister City 11 years ago and some of their projects include an ongoing
healthcare project, women's sewing cooperative, Youth theater and arts program,
children's art class, environment education classes, and road project. In
addition, they support the grass roots organization of Cripdes Sur that works
directly with communities in the region.
Esmeralda Villalta has been working
with The Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES), a grassroots
organization made up of over 300 rural communities for the past 13 years.
Esmeralda is the coordinator of the Cripdes regional team in the department of
San Vicente and a member of the CRIPDES national board whose work has focused
on training community leaders, natural disaster preparedness and women’s and
youth organizing.
Alexandra Early, Estela Garcia and
Tanya Coleare the translators of the tour and coordinators for the Sister
Cities network, which links 17 cities across the U.S. with organized
communities in El Salvador as part of a movement of solidarity.
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