Sister City Tools and Links

General Web Resources:

• U.S. – El Salvador Sister Cities
• Community Radio WERU-FM Sistering Committee
• MOFGA (Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association) Sistering Project
• CISPES – The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
• CRIPDES – The organization of the Salvadoran rural popular movement (en Espanol)
• School of the Americas Watch
• Chiapas Indymedia Site – El Salvador Page

Mining Resources and Web links:

• Mining Watch Canada – El Salvador pages 
• Intrepid Minerals
• Podcast on El Salvador Mining -- originally broadcast on “Radioactive” by WERU community radio in Orland, Maine.  (WERU is a sister station of Radio Sumpul, in Guarjila, El Salvador).
• Resisting the New Conquistadors- Salvadorans Mobilize Against Gold (PDF format, 25 Kb): Article by Sean Donahue in the Narco News Bulletin
• Mine and Communities, Mines and Communities Links
• Project Underground
• No Dirty Gold
• Resource Rebels, by Al Gedicks (South End Press)
• Crandon mine resistance and victory (Wisconsin)

Delegation Resources:

• Account by Cassie Alley, 2006 youth delegate
• Report of the FTAA Reality Tour Delegation:
  Executive Summary
  Full Report
• Report of the Movement-Building Delegation
• Powerpoint Presentation made by US Delegates in October, to members of MPR-12 in San Salvador, giving our brief analysis of social/political/economnic forces at work within the US (Powerpoint 2000 format, 4.4 Mb)
  Presentation script (English) – PDF format, 59 Kb
  Presentation script (en Espanol) – PDF format, 59 Kb

Scholarship Resources:

• Scholarship Brochure – PDF format, 233 Kb
• Arpillera Brochure – PDF format, 192 Kb