Madison Arcatao Sister City Project (MASCP) members Joan Laurion and Martin Alvarado talked to Gil Halsted about a Madison Public Library Living History Archive they helped create.
The collection that includes recordings of the people involved, tells how Madison became a sanctuary city and Wisconsin a sanctuary state in the 1980s. It also details the origins of the Madison-Arcatao Sister City Project and the organizing and organizers during that time in their own words.
It includes recordings, documents and photos as well as resources for further reading.
You can find it at www.madisonlivinghistory.org/collections/madison-arcatao-sister-city-project
Trip to El Salvador
There’s also a new delegation going to El Salvador from June 9th to 16th – Sunday to Sunday. Organizers have chosen water quality and water rights as the theme of this year’s visit.
Travelers will talk with social justice activists in San Salvador, visit the organized southern community of Las Anonas where sugar cane is produced and renew friendships in Arcatao where our sister city is fighting to avoid privatization and retain control of their water.
The group will also explore El Salvador, with the opportunity to hike El Boqueron, the volcano outside San Salvador; to visit Shicali Cerámica, a pottery workshop in the capital and to explore St. Romero’s home, chapel and meditation garden and more.
Information is available in informal gatherings at the Finca Salvadoran Café, 2500 Rimrock Road #5 February 17th and March 16th from 10:00 AM to noon.
The food and coffee at the Finca Café is authentically Salvadoran and absolutely delicious!
The Madison Arcatao Sister City webpage is at www.mascp.org/
