Want to learn more? Check out the following links to our favorite (English-language) news sources and social justice organizations:
El Salvador
- Cristosal
- Center for Exchange and Solidarity (CIS)
- Christians for Peace in El Salvador (CRISPAZ)
- Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
- Homies Unidos
- SHARE El Salvador
- US-El Salvador Sister Cities
- Voices from El Salvador
- El Salvador Perspectives blog
Guatemala
- MiMundo.org
- Guatemala Human Rights Commission
- Network in Solidarity for the People of Guatemala (NISGUA)
- Guatemala Solidarity Network
Central America
- Teaching Central America Resources
- Latin America Working Group
- Central American News
- North American Congress on Latin America
- Rights Action
- School of the Americas Watch
- Amnesty International
- Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CRLN)
Immigration / Migration
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- United We Dream
- Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC)
- Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
- Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CRLN)
Movement for Racial Justice
Films
- Teaching Central America’s film list.
- When we were young. Interviews with children during the wars and again decades later (both El Salvador and Guatemala).
- Gold Fever. A film about mining in Guatemala, organizing and resistance in affected communities, and the role of international investments.
- Luis Argueta’s films abUSAdos, Abrazos, and The Silence of Neto.
- Mujeres de la guerra/Women of the War. A film highlighting the stories of women during El Salvador’s war and now.
- Finding Oscar. A film about the search for a young survivor of a massacre in Guatemala who was adopted by one of the soldiers.
- 500 Years. A film about the history of Guatemala and recent efforts for justice.
- Harvest of Empire. A film that ties the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America to current migration.
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