AFGJ Core Projects

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 [email protected]

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 [email protected]

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 [email protected]

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: [email protected] (to join send an email to [email protected]) and a web page www.vensolidarity.org which posts information and lists delegations to Venezuela, speaking tours in the US, etc.

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