This grassroots organization was founded in Chile 25 years ago to train community health workers in urban shantytowns and squatter’s settlements and basically to defend life in the midst of the military dictatorship. A good summary is on their website at www.epes.cl (including, you will see, a poster for the MN concert). Over the past 25 years, EPES has grown from a small, emergency-response team to an institution with 16 staff people, two centers, educational materials that are used in many places around the world. Read more »