CISPES Presentation on Public Education in El Salvador at SOAW Conferenc...

Israel Montano Osorio, the Secretary General of the ANDES 21 de junio public teachers union, spoke about the recent innovations to El Salvador's public education system, based on the values of solidarity, sovereignty & democracy; and the threat to these advances posed by the U.S. government-backed right's possible resurgence in the upcoming elections; introduced & translated by Lisa Fuller, at the SOA Watch 2013 annual conference in Columbus, Georgia.

Israel Montano Osorio obtained his teacher's license in music studies and sociology while studying in San Miguel, El Salvador. As a student, Israel became part of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), the leftist guerrilla army that fought against El Salvador's repressive army during the country's 12-year civil war (1980-1992). As a long-time teacher and activist, Montano became affiliated with ANDES 21 de Junio, the National Association of Salvadoran Educators in 1985. At this time, the union suffered brutal repression by the military government. Montano is currently serving as the union's secretary general and has traveled extensively giving presentations on El Salvador's educational struggles and on the FMLN's social service programs that it has been able to implement since their first electoral victory in 2009.

More about Israel's speaking tour in November 2013 may be found here:

http://www.cispes.org/programs/speaking-tours/road-victory-east-coast-speaking-tour/

https://www.facebook.com/events/220844751426835

A concomitant speaking tour of the west coast was conducted with Francisca Iraheta Romero:

http://www.cispes.org/programs/speaking-tours/west-coast-road-victory-speaking-tour/

Israel & Francisca made an urgent plea for observer accompaniment for El Salvador's February 2014 elections:

http://www.cispes.org/programs/speaking-tours/salvadoran-union-president-calls-elections-accompaniment-school-americas-vigil/

Recent testimony & analysis on the importance of the upcoming elections may be viewed here:

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/events/events/the-upcoming-elections-in-honduras-and-el-salvador-challenges-opportunities-and-the-role-of-the-us

http://www.coha.org/the-february-2014-presidential-race-in-el-salvador-a-high-stakes-election/

More information about 21 de junio may be found here:

http://www.andes21dejunio.net/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Asociacion-Nacional-de-Educadores-Salvadore%C3%B1os/192044564142938
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Andes-21-de-Junio/131079110306853

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More information on CISPES may be found here:

http://www.cispes.org/
https://www.facebook.com/cispes.solidarity.page
https://twitter.com/CISPES

http://cispes30years.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_in_Solidarity_with_the_People_of_El_Salvador

Join their Emergency Response Network here:

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6099/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=2414

And please sign this petition to the U.S. government to stop meddling in El Salvador's upcming elections:

http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6099/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15925

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This teach-in was part of the annual conference which School Of The Americas Watch held at the Columbus Trade Center in Georgia down the street from the gates of Fort Benning where the now re-named WHINSEC (Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) stands. More information about WHINSEC may be read here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation

http://www.soaw.org/about-the-soawhinsec/history

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