In 1999 CISPES and other Central America solidarity organizations joined together with unions, environmentalists, and community organizers from the U.S. and around the world in holding the first massive anti-corporate globalization protest in the United States.
The Central America solidarity movement contributed an internationalist perspective to this action and other anti-neoliberal organizing in the US since then; the message was that we all benefit from stopping the corporate expanse of power – it is not about “protectionism†of U.S. jobs or environment, and it is not about helping “others†in countries far away. It is about struggling together for a better common future.