Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed into law the most racist and anti-immigrant law in the country, SB1070. The Alliance for Global Justice (which has a Tucson, Arizona office) joins the call for a boycott of Arizona until the law is repealed. We further demand that the federal government not cooperate with the legislation.
How You Can Stop Racist Border Laws: Read the rest of this entry →
The following is Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice’s response to the attention the possibility of a Nicaraguan coup has received in the media today.
Nicaragua Will Not Be Next
By Chuck Kaufman
National Co-Coordinator
Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice
While the facts in the Prensa Latina article, “After Honduras, Nicaragua?”
on April 22, 2010, and some coverage by other international media, are
correct about the current turmoil in Nicaragua, the implication that
Nicaragua is ripe for a coup, like occurred in neighboring Honduras, is
not. Read the rest of this entry →
We urge you to send a message to your member of Congress to share your concerns for the deteriorating human rights situation in Honduras and to insist that the United States stop their efforts to push for international recognition of the Lobo government.
Ask your member of Congress to call for no military aid to Honduras and for an end to the training of Latin American military at the School of the Americas, now referred to as Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). Indeed, it is distressing that even in the months that the Obama administration was condemning the SOA graduate-led military coup, the training of the Honduran military at the SOA/ WHINSEC continued.
The House and Senate of Arizona have passed a bill which would be the toughest anti-immigrant legislation in the nation, with at least ten states planning to introduce copy cat legislation. All that remains to be done is for Gov. Jan Brewer to sign the bill into law. Among many dangerous precedence, the law would require local and state police to racially profile people and investigate anyone they suspect of being undocumented–which could be any Latino or Indigenous person, especially if they are speaking Spanish. The law would also grant citizens the right to sue law enforcement bodies for not enforcing immigration laws aggressively enough. Read the rest of this entry →
