October 2004
Join
us in Celebrating the 25th Anniversary
of the Martyrs
 We
would like to invite both new and long-term
friends of El Salvador to join us in celebrating
25 years of solidarity with the people of El
Salvador.
We want to remember Monseñor Romero,
Ita, Maura, Jean, Dorothy and all the martyrs
and say Presente (Present). We want to remember
our martyrs alive in the communities they worked
with, advancing the organizing for justice and
human rights improving the conditions and challenging
the policies of death.
Over the next two years (2004 and 2005), our
plan is to reach out to new people that do not
know these martyrs and perhaps were not even
alive in the early 1980’s. We want to
invite local leaders that have been involved
in the solidarity movement with El Salvador
to tell their stories, share the history of
the martyrs and transmit their spirit to get
people on fire to continue with the struggle
for life at least another 25 years of solidarity
One of our goals is to resist the unfair Central
American Free Trade Agreement. We also want
to organize large delegations to El Salvador
for the anniversary of the Martyrs assassinations
on March 24 and December 2nd, 2005 to commemorate
the lives of the martyrs and experience why
it is important to remember them. Lastly, we
are launching a campaign to raise $250,000 for
local development projects and $250,000 for
women’s empowerment projects. As Monseñor
Romero used to say, “Everybody can do
something” and with this quote we invite
individuals and communities across the US to
do something to celebrate the anniversaries.
SHARE’s
Program Overview
This year SHARE’s Grassroots
and Advocacy programs will join hands to foster
“grassroots” globalization. Facilitating
relationships between people and communities
in the U.S. and El Salvador, we hope to further
efforts with promote economic and social justice.
Together with the MPR-12, SHARE’s newest
advocacy partner in El Salvador, whose members
include CRIPDES Sistering communities, we will
work to defeat the Central American Free Trade
Agreement (CAFTA). In CAFTA’s wake, we
will continue our long time efforts of advancing
dynamic and just economic relationships between
our countries.
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The Local Development
Program of the SHARE Foundation provides
grants, advocacy support and technical assistance
(i.e. help developing work plans, business
plans, writing proposals and reports, tracking
of grant monies, evaluations and outreach)
to Salvadoran organizations. The local development
projects that SHARE support contain three
integrating principles as outlined in our
2002-2006 strategic plan; they are women’s
empowerment, citizen participation and leadership
development.
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SHARE invests in building
relationships of cooperation and solidarity
with the Salvadoran American community in
the US. We enlist Salvadorans to join committees
and delegations, as well as be involved
in advocacy and fundraising activities.
- We encourage you to organize events during
the month of March in your community to celebrate
the 25th anniversary of Romero and the martyrs.
The events can take many shapes and forms,
including a “teach in”, a “cena
tipica” (typical dinner) with friends
and family, a cultural performance, the showing
of a movie, a dance, a web site with a chat
room, etc. For example, in New York the Salvadoran
committee celebrates a Romero Week every year
from March 21-24.
 Read
more about SHARE's delegations to honor Archbishop
Romero and the U.S. Churchwomen
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