Photo by Doug Spalding
Today is the 30th anniversary of the signing of the 1992 Peace Accords that brought an end to the Salvadoran civil war – and thousands are taking to the streets, despite widespread police roadblocks.
Popular organizers called the mass march to defend the Accords’ core pillars of democracy, peace, and justice, which are currently in grave danger from the government of Nayib Bukele.
Bukele is refusing to commemorate the Peace Accords – the only president since the end of the war to do so. Instead, he is dangerously distorting history in order to deny the importance of the Accords altogether.
His goal? To erase the heroic achievement of the organized masses that dismantled a vicious military regime in order to build a democracy and to turn the population against the grassroots forces – organized students, farmers, workers, environmental defenders, religious leaders and the leftist FMLN – that are once again uniting against his authoritarian regime.
As the Resistance and Popular Rebellion Bloc said in their call to march: “In the face of this narrative of forgetting that the government is driving, we must undertake the historic work of reclaiming the democratic, legal and political advances that resulted from the entire process of negotiating [an end to the war]”
No doubt Bukele will attempt to smear the march, which is why we need to show a massive wave of international solidarity!
Join our virtual Day of Action TODAY! Help us echo the movement’s demands and flood social media with messages of solidarity:
- No to militarization
- No to the dismantling of democracy
- No “justice” for war crimes without the victims
- End political persecution and freedom for political prisoners
- And more
To join in:
«From [insert your city, country here], I join the Salvadoran people in re-vindicating the Peace Accords & demanding an END to [insert one of the ones below]»
- political persecution
- social violence & disappearances
- militarization
- water privatization
- Don’t want to take a selfie? Share this graphic on Facebookor Instagraminstead!
- If you’re on Twitter, share a message of solidarity with those in the streets. Here is a sample:
On the 30th anniversary of the #PeaceAccords, I join the Salvadoran popular movement in demanding an END to [insert one of the following]
- political persecution
- social violence & disappearances
- militarization
- water privatization
Be sure to use these key hashtags!
#El16Marchamos
#ProhibidoOlvidarSV
#SalExEnResistencia
#SolidaridadSV
Stay tuned for updates, photos from the march and events happening later this month to learn more about the significance of the Accords, 30 years later.
Hope to see you online!
In struggle and resistance,
-All of us at CISPES
