The following alert (with some small modifications) was originally released by the Andean Information Network On January 26, coca growers and their constituents gathered in cities across Bolivia to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of Bolivia’s proposed amendment to the 1961 United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. The amendment seeks to decriminalize the traditional…
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Action alerts, Colombia, Labor, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Colombian Vice President in DC Lobbying Unions & Congress to Support US-Col Free Trade Agreement
Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon is in Washington DC lobbying for passage of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. As a former unionist and progressive turned neoliberal, Garzon plans to meet with opponents of the FTA, including officials from the AFL-CIO, the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers, as well as with Sen. Sherrod Brown. Garzon…
Action alerts, Political prisoners, Puerto Rico
Activist for Puerto Rican Independence Needs Support
The Alliance for Global Justice urges our supporters to take immediate action on behalf of Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera. We have only five days to act before the Parole Board makes its decision. López is the last of a dozen Puerto Rican activists imprisoned in the 1980s for “seditious conspiracy” for their…
Action alerts, Drug war, Militarism, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Pre-Register Now for the Education & Strategy Conference on US Militarism
Washington, DC – April 8-10, 2011 Sponsored By: Latin America Solidarity Coalition Held in Conjunction with School of the Americas Watch Days of Action (April 4-11, 2011) Register now to attend an informative and exciting conference to build a larger movement to end US militarism and the militarization of US relations with Latin America and…
Action alerts, Labor, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Tell Commerce Group to Drop the Lawsuit Against El Salvador
Over the past few months, AFGJ has devoted a great deal of time to our work opposing the Korea-US (KORUS) Free Trade Agreement (FTA). We believe that the following alert should help illustrate why such action is necessary. Thanks to FTAs, such as DR-CAFTA in this case, foreign investors are afforded “protections” that allow them…
Action alerts, Haiti
Haiti One Year Later: Still Waiting On Aid
The following alert was originally circulated by our friends at SOAW. Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic earthquake in Haiti that left 230,000 Haitians dead, hundreds of thousands injured, and over 1.5 million homeless. In spite of an initial massive out pour of international solidarity, over a million Haitians remain in temporary shelters…
Honduras, News, Nicaragua
Delegations to Nicaragua and Honduras
Join the Alliance for Global Justice on delegations to Nicaragua (June 19-27, 2011) and/or Honduras (June 27-July 5, 2011). In Nicaragua, we will explore the theme of US intervention in the upcoming elections. In Honduras, we will accompany the non-violent progressive coalition, National Front for Popular Resistance, as they present their plan to restore democracy…
