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<font size=3>Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:21 PM<br>
Subject: URGENT! DENOUNCE SALVADORAN PRESIDENT SACA's to SF!<br><br>
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</font><font size=2>dear friends,<br><br>
</font><font size=3>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. <br><br>
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". <br><br>
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! <br><br>
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</font><font size=4><b>Rally at city hall at 12:00 on Friday, April
4th<br><br>
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</b></font><font size=3>English follows...<br><br>
¡DENUNCIEMOS LA VISITA DEL "PRESIDENTE" SACA EN SAN
FRANCISCO!<br><br>
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."<br>
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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!<br><br>
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.<br>
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.<br><br>
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!<br>
2. Llamar a la alcaldía a (415) 554-6141 y enviar e-mails al alcalde a
<a href="mailto:gavin.newsom@sfgov.org">gavin.newsom@sfgov.org</a> lo más
pronto posible<br><br>
Aquí incluimos un ejemplo que usted puede usar para llamar o e-mail al
alcalde (vea abajo).<br><br>
</font><font size=4><b>DENOUNCE "PRESIDENTE" SACA IN SAN
FRANCISCO!!<br>
</b></font><font size=3>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."<br><br>
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!<br><br>
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:<br><br>
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!<br>
2. Calling the Mayor at (415) 554-6141 or sending him emails at
<a href="mailto:gavin.newsom@sfgov.org">gavin.newsom@sfgov.org</a> as
soon as possible!<br><br>
Here is a sample message that you can send or use to call Mayor
Newsom.<br><br>
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?
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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? <br><br>
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador<br>
Western States Development Coordinator<br>
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<a href="mailto:heyward.cispes@gmail.com">heyward.cispes@gmail.com</a><br>
415.503.0789 <br><br>
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