Independence Month? CISPES Presents Films & Discussion

description: Mes de Independencia?/ Independence Month? Series:
3 Short Films, Testimony and Discussion

BOSTON CISPES presents a series of short films to provide a panoramic view of El Salvador’s political situation, economy and social struggle as it stands today.
Then we will tackle the question: Will El Salvador be the next Latin American country to go left???

** Confronting Empire: Hope, Fear, and US Intervention in El Salvador’s Presidential Elections. An exciting inside view of the 2004 electoral battle as told by participants in CISPES’ election observer delegation. This film lays out El Salvador today in 30 minutes!

** Medio Pasaje (Half Fare). Shocking documentary of July 2006 police invasion of the Salvadoran National University, created by the university students themselves. This film documents the brutal police response to peaceful student demonstrations for reduced bus fare.

** Energetic rally footage of Mauricio Funes, the widely-supported leftist presidential candidate, who is leading the polls! Hear what the alternative to the status quo has to say!

** PLUS First-hand testimony from a member of this summer’s pre-elections delegation to El Salvador. Hear about electoral situation as it stands today—the right-wing set up for fraud, the miasma of political violence--and the social movement’s response to these threats to democracy.

Translation will be available.

For more info, contact
Boston CISPES (Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador)
2161 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140

web site: http://www.cispes.org