Solidarity Citizens' Committee as their own candidate. This cleavage continues to shape the Polish political landscape until this day. Solidarity Citizens' Committee The Solidarity Citizens' Committee ("Komitet Obywatelski "Solidarność"", acronym KO "S"), also known as "Citizens' Electoral Committee" ("Obywatelski Komitet Wyborczy"), previously named "Citizens' Committee with Lech Wałęsa" ("Komitet Obywatelski przy Lechu Wałęsie") was an (initially semi-) legal political organisation of the democratic opposition in communist Poland. Formed on 18 December 1988 in the premises of the Divine Mercy church in Warsaw, it spontaneously evolved into a nationwide movement attracting a vast majority of supporters of radical political change in the country after
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, based in Washington, D.C., is a national activist organization with chapters in various cities in the United States. CISPES supports the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front and the progressive social movement in El Salvador. CISPES was founded in 1980 in opposition to the U.S. aid (funding and political support) to the Salvadoran military and government during the Salvadoran civil war. CISPES opposed the politics and the actions of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and its leader Roberto D'Aubuisson during the