Inspiration to write this post hit me this morning after I started thinking about what items I always put on my packing list for travels,…
One of the highlights of my trip down to El Salvador was linking with youth who were empowered by their communities to create self-sustainable methods of supporting themselves and/or their activism. I traveled around El Salvador as an adult adviser to the high-school Youth Delegation of the River Road Unitarian Universalists (which included fifteen youth and three adults). Almost every community we visited had cooperative style businesses and non-profits, hence, the youth in these communities also adopted this business/organizational style. Two of my favorite experiences in El Salvador where at youth driven initiatives that exemplify the different ways youth embrace independence and expression.
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I began my day at work as usual by checking e-mails, Facebook messages from youth and other online social networking sites on which I have UU’s contacting me. Today however, I had a wonderful surprise in my Facebook message box. My young host brother, Carlos, from the community of Las Marias in El Salvador had created a Facebook account, had somehow found me and added me as a friend.
A DOCUMENTARY ON COCODA, the organization, which coordinated our trip around El Salvador.This 22 minute documentary is dedicated to the campesinos (peasants) who survived El…
Members and Friends of CoCoDA,
On July 1st, the tortured body of Marcelo Rivera, an organizer against mining in Cabañas, El Salvador, was found. He had been missing for two weeks. Now, three young radio news reporters from the local community radio station are receiving death threats for their coverage of the case.
RADIO VICTORIA 92.1 FM “100%POPULAR”. This is the youth ran cooperative radio station we visited in El Salvador. It is a liberal, progressive radio station…


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