The US-El Salvador Sister Cities Network is creating conversations about social justice, development, community organizing, the environment, and immigration on a U.S. tour. The network’s Zulma Tobar, whose family was displaced during the civil war, will be speaking, along with U.S. volunteer Carly Roach.

The network is a grass-roots organization of people living in the United States who have ongoing partnerships with small rural communities in El Salvador that began in 1986 as a citizen-based response to the U.S. intervention in El Salvador’s civil war. Today, 17 U.S. sister cities are paired with Salvadoran communities.

For more information on the Austin program, contact Jennifer Long, jlong@casamarianella.org.

Location: Friends Meeting of Austin, 3701 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Austin