1. “No Pay” Movement blamed for Nicaraguan credit crisis
2. Honduran coup freezes Central American trade; Halleslevens says no troop movements
3. Nicaragua-US diplomatic and military relations move forward
4. Awas Tigni leaders clarify land sale accusation
5. Construction of 1,450 “Houses for the People” advances
6. Meeting in Matagalpa on legalization of therapeutic abortion
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September 28, 2009
Call the State Department to set them straight!
At the Organization of American States today, the Obama administration appears to have given a clear signal to the coup government that it now has a free hand to do what it wants. Call the State Department and the White House to tell them that Zelaya had every right to return to his country and the U.S. must condemn the violent repression by the coup regime.
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1. Ortega criticizes Bishop Albelardo Mata for intervening in politics
2. NDI trains young political leaders; FSLN absent
3. IMF announces a “preliminary accord” with Nicaragua; budget and tax reform talks continue
4. United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food says he was misquoted
5. Ortega: “We have no more problems with the NGOs; we just wanted information.”
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September 22, 2009
[The Alliance for Global Justice has received this action alert from Rights Action. For more information, go to: http://www.rightsaction.org/]
Please write immediately to the UN missions of the members of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, from Canada, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and others. The contact information for all the listed missions is below with a sample letter.
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September 21, 2009
Call or write your Senators and Representative saying no to human rights violations by the coup regime!
[This message comes to you from the Alliance for Global Justice and its member projects, the Nicaragua Network, the Campaign for Labor Rights, the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, and the Respect for Democracy Campaign.]
Today, Sept. 21, 2009, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a military coup on June 28, completed a cross-country odyssey from Nicaragua to Honduras, arriving at the Embassy of Brazil in Tegucigalpa. Thousands of people had gathered at the Mission of the United Nations in that city, believing that Zelaya was there. However, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, Manuel Zelaya’s wife, told an international news agency that her husband was at the Brazilian Embassy (this announcement was confirmed by President Lula da Silva of Brazil) and the jubilant crowds began to make their way the short distance to that locale. However, the Honduran police lost no time in coming out to try to block their way.
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Press TV. September 15, 2009
Bolivian President Evo Morales accuses Washington of funding the campaigns of his rivals to prevent his reelection in Bolivia’s upcoming presidential election.
Morales took his accusations of subversion against the United States to new levels on Tuesday, claiming that his rivals in the December presidential election had received campaign funds from the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
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1. Important agricultural areas affected by El Niño; UN official says Nicaragua is vulnerable
2. Preparations underway for Atlantic Coast elections in March 2010
3. Nicaraguan Army celebrates 30th anniversary of its founding
4. Human Rights Ombudsman pledges support for LGBT community
5. Miguel D’Escoto’s term at UN ends
September 12, 2009
Campaign for Labor Rights
ACTION ALERT
Colombia’s Permanent Campaign in Solidarity with the Political Detainees “Behind the Walls” and the International Network in Solidarity with Colombia’s Political Prisoners are calling on organizations around the world to participate in an International Day in Solidarity with Colombia’s Political Prisoners on October 1st, 2009. Throughout Colombia, people will be taking to the streets and political prisoners themselves are planning events in several jails. In the United States, demonstrations will be held at the Colombian Embassy and Consulates, federal buildings, or other appropriate places.
To read more, go here: http://www.clrlabor.org/wordpress/
Campaign for Labor Rights
It is the mission of the Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR) to mobilize grassroots support throughout the United States to promote economic and social justice by campaigning to end labor rights violations around the world. CLR educates about, and advocates against, the underlying causes of the global sweatshop. Its campaign strategies are designed in collaboration with workers struggling to gain the right to organize, the right to earn a living wage in a clean, safe work environment, and the right to bargain collectively with their bosses. Through these campaigns CLR’s goal is to empower workers. We prioritize campaigns which have the goal of worker empowerment through union recognition and collectively bargained contracts. We operate on the solidarity model, taking our lead from the workers whose livelihood and lives are at stake. Our goal is to be a resource to local activists who are organizing in their communities in support of workers world wide. You can receive Labor Alerts by signing up on our web page www.clrlabor.org. To contact by email send to CLRlabor@AFGJ.org
Nicaragua Network
The Nicaragua Network has been organizing in solidarity with the people of Nicaragua since the network was founded in February 1979 to support the popular struggle to overthrow the 45 year US-supported Somoza family dictatorship, and after the July 19 victory, to support the efforts of the Sandinista Revolution to provide a better life for the nation’s people. For over three decades, Nicanet has been a leading organization in the United States committed to social and economic justice not only for Nicaragua, but Latin America and the world, based on respect for sovereignty and self-determination. Nicanet advocates for sound U.S. foreign policies that respect human rights and international law. The Nicaragua Network provides information and organizing tools to a network of 200 solidarity, sister city, and peace and justice committees across the U.S.
Publications include the Nicaragua Network Hotline, the Nicaragua News Service, the Nicaragua Monitor, and occasional monographs. Subscriptions are available on our website: www.nicanet.org The Network organizes speaking tours of Nicaraguans in the U.S. and study tours and brigades to Nicaragua. Our email address is nicanet@AFGJ.org
Respect for Democracy Campaign
The Respect for Democracy Campaign works toward broad based, participatory democracy, and against efforts by the US government and government-funded institutions to undermine democratic processes around the world. When elections are manipulated, it is usually to benefit an elite few by taking power from working families and communities–from real, grassroots majorities.
A major goal of the Respect for Democracy Campaign is to close the misnamed National Endowment for Democracy. The NED was created by Congress in 1983 and is more than 90% funded by US taxes. Yet it is officially designated a private organization–thus it carries out foreign policy efforts in the name of US citizens, with our tax money, but with no meaningful public oversight. This has lead to many abuses, such as NED funding and coordination of the groups that overthrew Haiti’s elected government in 2004, leading to the bloodiest year in Haiti’s modern history. It also supported the coup leaders who unsuccessfully tried to overthrow Hugo Chavez in Venezuela in 2004. NED’s first successful election manipulation was in Nicaragua, in 1990. The NED spent more than $20 per voter to influence the presidential elections–more than had been spent per voter by both campaigns combined in the in the 1988 US elections! The NED has even supported parties and groups in Europe with ties to the most far right wing elements, such as NED work with convicted Nazi collaborator Lazslo Pasztor. The Respect for Democracy Campaign web page is www.respect4democracy.org and the email is respect4democracy@AFGJ.org
Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
The purpose of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign is to expose and oppose US government and corporate intervention in Venezuela’s sovereign affairs; to mobilize US residents to demand that relations between the two countries be based on peace and respect; and, to promote people-to-people exchanges between our two countries. The VSC has a listserve: vensteering@lists.mutualaid.com (to join send an email to VSN@AFGJ.org) and a web page www.vensolidarity.org which posts information and lists delegations to Venezuela, speaking tours in the US, etc.
NATIONAL
End US Wars
National Immigrant Solidarity Network (NISN)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org
No More Guatanamos
Pan-African Roots
http://www.geocities.com/rtandac/roots.htm
Project Safe Haven
United Students Against Sweatshops
http://studentsagainstsweatshops.org/index.php
World Can’t Wait
INTERNATIONAL
Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW)
Asamblea de Base
acatlhuac@sbcglobal.net
Bel’in Center for Joint Struggle
(no web page)
Campesin@ Hope in Nicaragua (CHIN)
(no web page)
Conversion to Reclaim Earth in the Americas (CREA)
(no web page)
Lajee Center
Mossadegh Project
http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com
One Democratic State Group
Research Journalism Initiative
http://www.ResearchJournalismInitiative.net
Solentiname Friendship Project
http://www.poluscenter.org/solentiname.html
LOCAL – Washington, DC
EmpowerDC
Howard Co. (MD) Cmte. to End the Israeli Occupation (HCCEIO)
HCCEIO@yahoo.com
911 Truth Education Fund
(no web page)
Peoples Media Center
http://www.dcspeakout.com/test/experiment2.html
LOCAL – Los Angeles, CA
Action/LA
Change-Links Newspaper
LOCAL – Tucson, AZ
Turnwind
(no web page)
