Police, Repression, and Popular Movements in Colombia: Webinar this Thursday, September 15, 8p ET, 7pm CT and Colombia, 6p MT, and 5p PT. Featuring presentations by Colombian Congressperson Alirio Uribe, Juan Esteban Martínez (Campaña Libertad Ya), Camille Landry (AFGJ), Alberto Bejarano (Trabajo y Justicia—Grupo Jurídico), and Stephanie Ortiz (Fundación Lazos de Dignidad). Moderated by Nina…
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Fundraising
The Movement for Liberation Needs Your Support!
Our collective provides people’s movements with the tools and resources needed for true liberatory change. Our work is broader and further reaching than it ever has been before, and we need your support! by James Jordan The victory of the popular movements in Colombia that brought President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Francia Marquez is…
Colombia, Political prisoners
Happy Birthday, Simón Trinidad! Free Him Now!
Prisoner Simón Trinidad is a victim of deadly U.S.-Colombia alliance Originally published by the People’s World, July 18, 2022 10:52 AM CDT By W. T. Whitney Jr. Simón Trinidad’s 72nd birthday is July 30. Don’t think about sending him a card. U.S. prison authorities have blocked his mail since 2004. He is lodged in a…
Colombia, Democracy, Uncategorized
AFGJ Statement on Colombia’s 2022 Elections
The Colombian people achieved a tremendous victory and a historic milestone in their struggle for peace, justice, and the “second independence” from neocolonialism and neoliberalism. The election of President elect Gustavo Petro and Vice-President elect Francia Marquez is not so much the achievement of a savvy politician or a well-oiled political campaign as it was…
Anti-War, Colombia, Democracy, Español, James Patrick Jordan
¿Hay veteranos por la paz en Colombia?
(Este artículo está el primero de dos. La segunda parte serán entrevistas con veteranos de las FARC-EP firmantes del acuerdo de paz de 2016) Por James Patrick Jordan, traducido por Adrián Boutureira Read in English… Una vez le pregunté a un destacado líder del movimiento social y ex senador colombiano si había en su país…
Anti-War, Colombia, Democracy, James Patrick Jordan, Uncategorized
Are There Veterans for Peace in Colombia?
(This is Part 1. Part 2 will be interviews with veterans of the FARC-EP who are signatories to the 2016 peace accord) By James Patrick Jordan En Español Be sure and watch AFGJ’s livestream coverage as results come in from the June 19, 2022 Election Day in Colombia, starting at 4:30pm Eastern Time until…
Action alerts, Colombia, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered
Open Individual and Organizational letter on Colombia: Demand the implementation of points 1 & 4 of the Peace Accords and an end to political violence!
Open Individual and Organizational letter on Colombia: Demand the implementation of points 1 & 4 of the Peace Accords and an end to political violence! Join the hundreds of Colombians and allies who are currently denouncing the emergency situation the country is going through. In Colombia at least one human rights defender, social leader or…
Colombia, Maya Hernández, Police militarization, Uncategorized
Colombia’s ESMAD and the History of U.S. Policing
by Maya Hernández “A cop is a cop,” said James Baldwin in 1971. Undoubtedly, Baldwin was pointing to the way that U.S. law enforcement operates as a fraternized collective, wherein individual officers are not so much the problem as the embedded systemic policies that promote the use of violence. The actual objective of instituting the…
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Uncategorized
As Violence Rises, Can Colombia’s Peace Endure?
by James Patrick Jordan (originally published in LookLeft) Colombia and numbers have their own special relationship. On one of my first visits there, I consulted a map and estimated the place I wanted to go was only around 300 kilometers away. I did not consider the two Andean corridors we would cross, nor the big…
Calls to action, Colombia, Uncategorized
Solidarity with Colombia’s Indigenous Minga and National Strike!
SEND AN EMAIL TO COLOMBIAN AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF THE MINGA AND NATIONAL STRIKE! DEMAND THAT THEIR RIGHTS BE RESPECTED TO DEMONSTRATE FREE OF REPRESSION BY THE PUBLIC FORCES! The people of Colombia are coming together yet again to demand an end to the right-wing political violence and repression that is ravaging the country. Under…