[News] Oppose El Salvador's Presidential visit to SF - Friday, 4/4 Noon - City Hall
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Wed Apr 2 17:37:17 EDT 2008
Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Subject: URGENT! DENOUNCE SALVADORAN PRESIDENT SACA's to SF!
dear friends,
anyone who's disgusted with Newsom's public
housing and bay view hunter's point takeover, the
gang injunctions, ICE raids, kickbacks for his
friends at Lennar and in city hall, the enormous
deficit he heaped on us, etc. should come to the
protest and draw the parallels between his
leadership and the puppet leadership in El
Salvador... why would he pay homage to the leader
of this death squad party, ARENA? this party
who's trying to sell off El Salvador piece by
piece to transnational investors, allowing death
squads to reform through the civilian policing
structure. Newsom and Saca are birds of a feather.
the photos that will come from this PR stunt
(which is closed to the press) will be used in
the Salvadoran press, elections brochures, and
business magazines to paint ARENA a friend of
"liberal San Francisco" and El Salvador a "new
frontier in foreign investment".
we need your presence on Friday! support the SF
CISPES committee in making several attempts to
shut this corrupt president and our rogue mayor out of city hall!
Rally at city hall at 12:00 on Friday, April 4th
English follows...
¡DENUNCIEMOS LA VISITA DEL "PRESIDENTE" SACA EN SAN FRANCISCO!
El Domingo 30 de Marzo se anunció en los
periodicos de El Salvador que el Presidente Saca
vendrá a la Ciudad de San Francisco y que el
alcalde de esta ciudad declarará el 4 de Abril
como "el Día del Presidente Saca."
Esto es ofensivo para las y los salvadoreños
viviendo en SF así como tambien para otros
residents de dicha ciudad, ya que este presidente
Saca representa a una dictadura disfrazada de
civil pero que solo es la continuación de las
dictaduras militares represivas del pasado en El
Salvador. Este "presidente" que además fue electo
presidente luego de una campaña electoral de
miedo hacia el pueblo salvadoreño es
representante de un gobierno que ha hundido al
pueblo salvadoreño en la extrema pobreza y que
además a entregado la soberanía de El Salvador a
los EEUU. El Salvador es el único pais en America
Latina que forma parte de la Coalición invasora
en Irak. Y un presidente amante de la Guerra no
puede ser honorado en esta ciudad!
El Alcalde de San Francisco Gavin Newsom va a
honorar al presidente Saca declarando el 4 de
Abril como 'el Día del Presidente Saca'
contradiciendo así los principios de esta ciudad
progresista y de resistencia contra las politicas excluyentes y las invasions.
Por eso CISPES (Comite en Solidaridad con el
Pueblo de El Salvador) invita a todos los
aliados, amigos del Pueblo de El Salvador a
protestar la presencia de Saca y a tomar acción
para detener esta proclamación del día de Saca por parte del alcalde de SF.
1. Asistir a las protestas frente a la alcaldía
de SF este viernes el 4 de abril a las 12:00
(mediodía). Tenemos que mostrar que SACA NO ESTÁ BIENVENIDO en San Francisco!
2. Llamar a la alcaldía a (415) 554-6141 y enviar
e-mails al alcalde a
<mailto:gavin.newsom at sfgov.org>gavin.newsom at sfgov.org lo más pronto posible
Aquí incluimos un ejemplo que usted puede usar
para llamar o e-mail al alcalde (vea abajo).
DENOUNCE "PRESIDENTE" SACA IN SAN FRANCISCO!!
On March 30th, a Salvadoran newspaper announced
the visit of Presidente Saca to the City of San
Francisco and that Mayor Gavin Newsom will
declare April 4th "The Day of President Saca."
This act is an offense to the Salvadoran
community in the city, because this President
represents a dictatorship disguised as civil but
merely a continuation of repressive military
regimes of the past. This "president," who was
only elected by a massive fear campaign waged
against the Salvadoran people, represents a
government that has plunged El Salvador into
extreme poverty and has handed over the
sovereignty of El Salvador to the United States.
Furthermore, El Salvador is the only Latin
American country that has troops in Iraq as part
of the Coalition of Invaders--a war-loving
President cannot be honored in this city!
Gavin Newsom will honor Saca by declaring April
4th as the "Day of President Saca", an act that
contradicts the principles of this city that is
always protesting against wars, invasions and
exclusionary policies. That is why CISPES
(Committee in Solidarity with the People of El
Salvador) is calling our allies to take action by:
1. Joining us this Friday at a demonstration at
City Hall at 12:00 noon. We must show that Saca
is not welcome in San Francisco!
2. Calling the Mayor at (415) 554-6141 or sending
him emails at
<mailto:gavin.newsom at sfgov.org>gavin.newsom at sfgov.org as soon as possible!
Here is a sample message that you can send or use to call Mayor Newsom.
I am writing/calling to express my opposition to
your declaration of April 4 as the "Day of
Antonio Saca," President of El Salvador. The
level of state repression in El Salvador,
especially violent attacks on youth and on the
social movement, has risen dramatically under
Saca and the city of San Francisco should not
honor him in any way. Did you know that his
government recently tried to send peaceful
protesters to jail for 60 years under charges of terrorism?
Your visit with him is deeply offensive to the
Salvadoran community in San Francisco that has
been forced out of their country by the economic
policies of free trade and privatization that
Saca's government has pushed and whose family
members are now living under a civil
dictatorship. How can the City of San Francisco
honor such a government? Will you withhold your declaration on Friday?
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
Western States Development Coordinator
<mailto:heyward.cispes at gmail.com>heyward.cispes at gmail.com
415.503.0789
Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415 863-9977
www.Freedomarchives.org
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