SHARE and Salvadoran Americans

Bringing Solidarity Home: A Guide to Reaching out to Salvadoran American Immigrants in your Community (PDF)

SHARE collaborates with Salvadoran American communities and organizations in the U.S. on development, advocacy and grassroots organizing efforts. SHARE invites Salvadorans in the U.S. to enter into partnerships with counterparts in El Salvador , support sustainable development and disaster mitigation work, and conduct coordinated advocacy. For their part, Salvadoran American organizations invite SHARE to accompany immigration advocacy efforts, support emergency relief work, and celebrate Salvadoran art, music and culture.

SHARE has cultivated relationships with Salvadoran American communities and organizations in the U.S. , such as the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), Comunidades Unidas Salvadorenas ( CUS), the Salvadoran American National Network (SANN), and Milpa. These connections create space for Salvadoran Americans to forward their analysis of the connections between poverty, immigration, and rural development, and link their efforts with those of U.S. solidarity, human rights, and development organizations. The relationships developed over time also make cooperation in times of crisis function: SHARE volunteered to assist Washington , DC Salvadorans in collecting funds after Hurricane Stan (2005) and pitched in post-earthquakes (2001) as Salvadoran hometown associations and community members worked around the clock.

Many Salvadoran American communities and organizations have been active in articulating a just U.S. foreign policy for Central Americans. SHARE and Salvadoran Americans have collaborated to oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) through press events, joint lobbying, and street mobilizations in the U.S. , both before and after CAFTA’s implementation. SHARE has accompanied Salvadoran organizations in their struggle for equitable immigration reform and extensions for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Salvadoran immigrants. The two groups also mounted shared activities to defeat the U.S.-backed candidacy of former Salvadoran President Francisco Flores for Secretary General of the Organization of American States.

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