The Latin American Solidarity Coalition (LASC) sent a delegation to Haiti just prior to the earthquake. Two Alliance for Global Justice employees attended the delegation. The delegation’s report was just completed and is available now.
Please read LASC’s Haiti Delegation Report.
The following was originally released by Public Citizen
Our path to a more just world starts where we are. Changing the world means changing our own government. But our democracy just suffered a devastating setback. On January 21, the Supreme Court-in a case called Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission-overturned decades of precedent and ruled that First Amendment rights meant to protect the free speech of people somehow allow corporations to spend as much they want attacking or promoting candidates in our elections. Read the rest of this entry →
In this three essay series, Grassroots Movements and Electoral Politics: Strategies for Change in Latin America, Midge Quandt investigates the pros and cons of electoral and grassroots approaches to change. While exploring the question of whether to defy state power or take it, Quandt raises many interesting questions about the most promising route for radical change in Latin America today. Please read this in-depth look at avenues for change and participatory democracy. Grassroots Movements and Electoral Politics
Follow the steps below to tell the US to stop supporting coup regime violence!
This alert was written by allies in the Central American solidarity movement, many of which are listed below.
Yesterday, Hondurans marched in the streets of Tegucigalpa to demand that the recently installed government of Porfirio Lobo halt its attacks on the peaceful Resistance movement. The National Front for Popular Resistance has documented at least *254* human rights violations, including murder, kidnappings and rape, since Pepe Lobo took over for the de facto government. Read the rest of this entry →
1. Special Committee of National Assembly hears from candidates for expiring posts
2. Senators visit; Nicaraguan-US Relations appear friendly
3. Julio Aviles takes command of Nicaraguan Army
4. Government releases plan to address drought
5. Europeans to observe Atlantic Coast elections on March 7
6. Ministry of Education distributes food for daily meals for one million students
7. Siuna mayor agrees to stop development in the Bosawas Nature Preserve
8. International Poetry Festival supports Ernesto Cardenal for Nobel in literature
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Ask the Nicaraguan government to protect indigenous communities and complete demarcation and titling of indigenous land. Follow the steps below to act now!
Despite, or perhaps because of, the Nicaraguan government’s progress in titling and demarcating indigenous land, tensions have risen between settler and indigenous communities, reaching the point of violence. In the South Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS) of the country, indigenous communities have found themselves in continuous direct competition for their land with Spanish-speaking Nicaraguan settlers, or colonists. They have also found themselves subject to escalating attacks and death threats from the settlers.
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This release was written by Jubilee USA.
In the weeks since the earthquake that devastated Haiti, hundreds of thousands of people across the globe responded with individual generosity and with a call for justice – a call to drop Haiti’s debts and to ensure grant support instead of new loans. The message was so obvious and so widely supported that it could not be ignored: on February 6, we celebrated when the Group of Seven Finance Ministers responded by committing to drop Haiti’s debts to international institutions. Read the rest of this entry →
Work with us on the US Social Forum
(June 22-26, 2010)
The Latin America Solidarity Coalition would like to invite Latin America grassroots solidarity organizations to participate in the US Social Forum scheduled for June 22-26, 2010 in Detroit. We also invite you to collaborate with like-minded organizations at the Social Forum in the following ways: Read the rest of this entry →
Act in solidarity, and participate in one of these upcoming events.
Honduras Solidarity Delegation
March 13-20, 2010
Tour of Latin American Labor Leaders
March 15-30, 2010
Grupo Fenix Solar Culture Course in Nicaragua
July 10-18, 2010
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We have received an urgent request for financial support regarding the legal defense of Liliany Obando, a Colombian labor unionist, human rights activist, independent filmmaker and political prisoner. We need to raise $1,000 as quickly as possible to cover expenses regarding the collection of evidence vital to her case, which goes back in session in two weeks. We are asking you to donate $50 or whatever you can afford. You can send a check or money order made out to the “Alliance for Global Justice” to AFGJ, 1247 E Street SE, Washington, DC 2003. Be sure and put “Lily Obando Defense Fund” in the memo line. You can also donate online. Scroll down below the list of “Alliance for Global Justice Core Projects” and past the list for “Fiscally Sponsored Projects” to the “Other: Enter Name” option and type in “Lily Obando Defense Fund”. Read the rest of this entry →
