In October of last year, the Mexican police and military occupied the Mexican state-owned electric company, Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LFC) displacing 44,000 employees in an attempt to break Mexico’s oldest union, the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME). The occupation of the LFC and displacement of the workers was done in the name of…
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Action alerts, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Get Free Trade Sneak Attack Out of Financial Reregulation Bill!
This message was originally distributed by Public Citizen. Buried in the 1200-page Senate financial reregulation bill we found a sneaky provision that would undermine state-level insurance consumer protections if they conflict with trade agreements! Yup, the “Office of National Insurance” (ONI) proposal would empower the Treasury Department to unilaterally override existing state insurance regulations that…
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Boycott Arizona!
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for Global Justice (which has a Tucson, Arizona office) joins the call for a boycott of Arizona until the law is repealed.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…
Action alerts, Nicaragua
Nicaragua Will NOT Have The Next Coup
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…
Action alerts, Honduras, Militarism
No Military Aid for Honduras Oppression
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…
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Tell Arizona to Veto Racial Profiling!
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…
Action alerts, Colombia, Drug war
Colombian Community Garden Fumigated
Tell the US to stop supporting the destruction of Colombian communities! Action Request Below This alert was originally released by Jenzera. Pacific Coast, Colombia-The Eperara Siapidaara People Condemn the Destruction of their Community Plots On March 16, 2010 several anti-narcotics police planes sprayed with chemicals the communal gardens and plots of the Eperara Siapidaara women…
Action alerts, Colombia, Political prisoners
Threats Against Colombian Political Prisoner
Urgent action needed! The International Network in Solidarity with Colombian Political Prisoners (of which the Alliance for Global Justice is a member) is calling for people to take urgent action on behalf of Liliany Obando, a Colombian political prisoner, regarding human rights abuses and threats against her. Liliany Obando is being subjected to a campaign…
Action alerts, Labor
Stop Union Busting in Mexico – Urgent Action Required!
Employees Forced to Resign from Union or Lose Their Jobs (This alert was originally published by LabourStart.) Some 30,000 technical and professional employees of PEMEX (the huge public Mexican petroleum complex) finally won the right to unionize upon their third attempt. The new union’s victory was short lived. Some fifty leaders and activists active in…
Action alerts, Democracy
Save Our Democracy from the Supreme Court
The following was originally released by Public Citizen Our path to a more just world starts where we are. Changing the world means changing our own government. But our democracy just suffered a devastating setback. On January 21, the Supreme Court-in a case called Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission-overturned decades of precedent and ruled…
