Alliance for Global Justice

The Alliance for Global Justice has received word that the popular occupation of Piñuña Negro continues and is in dire need of international support. Indigenous, AfroColombian and farming community members have amassed at the Police Inspector’s office–the highest governmental authority in the area–to demand negotiations to stop coca eradication efforts until the government makes good on its promises to build the infrastructure for a meaningful crop replacement program.

Read an in-depth analysis of the situation, by AFGJ.
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Yesterday, Congressional leaders put aside partisan differences to stand together in support of the world’s poorest. After months of anticipation, the Jubilee Act (HR 4405) was introduced by Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), along with Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA), Ranking Member Spencer Bachus (R-AL), and seven more Republican and Democrat members of Congress. This encouraging bi-partisan effort by powerful leaders in Congress is a tremendous holiday gift for our sisters and brothers in the Global South.

[The Nicaragua Network has just received this important message from the Jubilee USA Network of which it is a member. We urge you to take action!] Read the rest of this entry →

In what appears to be one of the most promising efforts toward trade reform in recent memory, both the Senate and the House have a progressive new trade bill before them. The bill is gathering momentum, and in the House it already had 127 co-sponsors! Read the rest of this entry →

December 15, 2009

Please take a moment to contact the Colombian Embassy, the Interamerican Commission for Human Rights, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as your US Representative about this urgent matter. Following is a sample email or phone call script:
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[Below is a statement from the International Network in Solidarity with the Colombian Political Prisoners. AFGJ urges you to take action.]

On this Human Rights Day, the International Network in Solidarity with the Colombian Political Prisoners (INSPP) calls attention to the violation of the human rights of Colombia’s political opposition and its supporters.  The Colombian government is waging a campaign to criminalize critical thinking-a campaign that paves the way for transnational access to Colombia’s resources, underwritten with more than (US) $7 billion in the US funded Plan Colombia. Read the rest of this entry →

1. Tax reform and budget bills before National Assembly
2. Conservative forces in European Parliament pass resolution condemning Nicaragua
3. Ortega says OAS Democratic Charter is dead after Honduran elections
4. Hotel in Solentiname taken from Ernesto Cardenal’s group
5. Free Trade Zones report
6. Grant Gallup dies
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