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WORKING TOWARDS PEACE

WITH JUSTICE

PEOPLE WHO ARE EDUCATED WILL

NEVER BE ENSLAVED

involved in solidarity work for the popular movement in El Salvador in the mid

I became 1980s, when an executive member from the Asociación Nacional de Educadores
Salvadoreños ANDES 21 DE JUNIO, came to Canada and I attended her lecture. I was incredibly impressed
with the work that ANDES was doing in connection with the struggle for peace with justice and for popular

education in rural areas, especially the control zones, of El Salvador, and by Martita as a person.

I helped establish a support group in Canada and we would organize fact-finding delegations to El Salvador,

primarily for Canadian teachers, and we collected and transported school supplies, equipment, medicine, clothes,
etcetera, to ANDES in El Salvador for use in their Popular Education Program. Once I helped drive a four-ton
truck from Calgary to San Salvador with a load of copier machines, printing presses, fax machines, and related

supplies, material that had been donated towards ANDES literacy campaign. We gave them the truck as well. We
also collected funds for the construction of popular schools in the zones controlled by the FMLN and to pay for
the training and on-going support of popular teachers. Much of our work at this time was political, organizing
urgent-action campaigns to try to save the lives of Salvadorans who had been captured and detained, and

lobbying the Canadian government to stop bilateral aid to the death-squad infested government of El Salvador.

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