Sister Parish - Issues and Advocacy

The following issues directly affect many of our Central American hermanamientos. We offer the following links as educational tools. There are many ways that U.S. churches can show solidarity with Central American hermanamientos and we encourage each church to become more involved.

Oscar Romero Delegation to El Salvador	Information on the upcoming Oscar Romero delegation
CAFTA/Free Trade	Information on CAFTA
Fair Trade
Gangs	Homies Unidos http://homiesunidos.org/
Immigration	Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)
Millenium Challenge Funds and the Northern Transitional Highway	Center for Global Development MCA Monitor Blog http://blogs.cgdev.org/mca-monitor/archives/el_salvador/ Share Foundation: Millennium Challenge Account 101 http://www.share-elsalvador.org/programs/advocacy/MCA%20101%20one%20pager.pdf Millennium Challenge Account http://www.mca.gov/countries/elsalvador/index.php Fomilenio http://www.mca.gob.sv/fomilenio/index.php
Mining	Mining Watch Peace through Interamerican Community Action (PICA) http://www.pica.ws/ss/tools.html#mining CEICOM (Centro de Investigación sobre Inversión y Comercio—Investigation Center about Investment and Trade) (Spanish) http://www.ceicom.org/ Information about mining, Plan Puebla Panama, Free Trade Agreements, water, and agriculture. Including press statements from the National Mining Table and technical research on the consequences of mining in El Salvador.
News Sources	El Faro (Spanish) www.elfaro.net Upside Down World http://upsidedownworld.org/ Diario Co-Latino (Spanish) http://www.diariocolatino.com/
Solidarity Groups/Human Rights	Center for Exchange and Solidarity (CIS) (El Salvador) Guatemala Human Rights Commission NISGUA (Network In Solidarity with GUAtemala) Resource Center of the Americas Rights Action

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