The current situation in El Salvador is presenting the popular movements with enormous challenges. Diana Becerra, U Mass history and gender professor and community organizer, will share her reflections through the history of Salvadoran women fighting back in the face of equally difficult times. Activists Gabriela Cartagena and Irma Flores will make the connections to organizing here in the Boston area. Recent April delegates to El Salvador will add their perspectives .

Light refreshments will be served.

Panel:

• Diana Becerra: historian, activist organizer

• Irma Flores: Salvadoran Somerville community organizer.

• Gabriela Cartagena: Salvadoran Housing Justice organizer

Community organizer and U Mass. Assistant Professor of history and gender, Diana Sierra Becerra specializes in social movements and revolutions in Latina America. Her book manuscript, Insurgent Butterflies: Gender and Revolution in El Salvador, tells the stories of peasant and working-class women who fought for a world without capitalists, imperialists, and patriarchs.

Spanish interpretation services available.