---El Salvador 2009 Victory Tour----

Featuring Breny Massiel Herrera
FMLN Women’s Secretariat

Milwaukee event:

July 9, 2009, 7pm
Voces de la Frontera Workers’ Ctr.
1027 S. 5th Street
Free & open to the public

more info

phone: 4145073745

Email: [email protected]

(see www.progressivestudents.org for Breny’s biography & to download the f lyer in .pdf format)

Celebrate the triumph of democracy in El Salvador!

Aftercenturies of violent inequality and repression, a dozen years of armedstruggle against a brutal, U.S.-backed military, and two decades ofrule by the right-wing ARENA party, the Salvadoran people elected thefirst progressive president in their country’s history on March 15th,2009. President Mauricio Funes of the FMLN took office on June 1,bringing El Salvador into a growing community of Latin American nationsseeking to chart an independent economic and political course. Join usto learn about the platform, plans, and strategy of the new FMLNgovernment… … and what WE can do in the U.S. to support thestrengthening of REAL democracy in El Salvador!

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PROTEST – MILWAUKEE CORPORATION SUING IMPOVERISHED EL SALVADOR FOR $100 MILLION

Protest & press conference – Noon, July 9,
CGC Headquarters, 6001 N. 91st St. (91st & Fond Du Lac)

CommerceGroup Corp. (CGC), based here in Milwaukee, makes its profits from goldand silver mining in El Salvador. Communities across El Salvador areprotesting metallic mining because of the environmental degradation andeconomic injustice caused by transnational mining companies like CGC.In 2006 and in 2008, the mining permits for CGC were revoked by ElSalvador’s Minister of the Environment. In March 2009, they announcedtheir intent to sue the government of El Salvador for $100 million in“lost profits” under the notorious Central American Free TradeAgreement.

If you think El Salvador has the right to determineits own economic and environmental policy, join us for a pressconference and demonstration at noon on July 9th, 2009, at CGCHeadquarters, 6001 N. 91st St. (91st & Fond Du Lac). Demand thatCommerce Group drop the lawsuit against El Salvador!

Sponsoredby: Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES);Latin America Solidarity Committee Milw.; Voces de la Frontera,www.vdlf.org; Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society; andProgressive Students of Milwaukee.

For more information, see www.cispes.org