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US Right Wing Attacks Nicaragua

December 7, 2011

Contact your representatives! Send your Senators and Representative the article below responding to allegations of fraud in Nicaragua’s Nov. 6 presidential election. Include your own note saying you will not tolerate a return to the policies of the 1980s when the US made economic, political and proxy war on Nicaragua, the hemisphere’s second poorest country.…

Attorneys Urge Court to Hear Lawsuit Against Honduras Coup Leader

November 3, 2011

This article was originally posted and circulated by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras. November 3, 2011, Houston, TX and New York, NY – Last night, in a human rights case against Honduran coup leader Roberto Micheletti Baín, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional…

99%: Now That’s Strength in Diversity

October 6, 2011

By Jamie Way It might be too early to declare the start of an “American Autumn,” but I have not been this optimistic about politics in a long time. Granted, some horrific things had to take place before the country was finally jolted from its slumber, but today it is clear that not only are…

Why I bought a one-way ticket to DC for October 6

September 5, 2011

By Chuck Kaufman There are iconic moments in the movement for justice and peace when, if you are not a participant, you regret it forever. My first was May Day 1971 when we shut down Washington, DC protesting the Vietnam War. I missed being with a million people in New York in September 1982 protesting…

Review of Jean Bricmont’s Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War

August 23, 2011

This is the first in a series of book reviews on militarism by Midge Quandt. Jean Bricmont, Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War, Monthly Review Press, 2006, 183 pp. Since the end of the Cold War, the doctrine of humanitarian intervention — which asserts that severe human rights violations justify the abrogation of…

Anger and the Euro-descended working and middle classes

August 9, 2011

By Chuck Kaufman (This post can also be read on Chuck’s Znet Blog.) I am angry. I don’t personally have any kids or grandkids, but I am deeply angry anyway that the children and grandchildren of my friends are going to have a worse education, poorer health care, lower paying jobs, less personal security, and…

Make Your Voice Heard (Loudly) at Town Hall Meetings and Candidate Forums

July 19, 2011

By Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator (The following piece was written by Kaufman for the New Priorities Network, of which AFGJ is a member.) In 2009 angry Tea Party activists hijacked the health care debate with loud and confrontational performances at Congressional Town Hall Meetings across the country. The corporate media loved them and amplified their…

Delegation Finds US Election Interference

July 15, 2011

By George Pauk, M.D. (Dr. Pauk is a member of the AFGJ board and participated in the Nicaragua Network delegation to investigate US interference in Nicaragua’s 2011 national election.) A delegation organized by the Nicaragua Network just returned from a ten day investigation of the role of the United States in the upcoming November 2011…

When Threats and Economic Blackmail Fail, US Sponsored Coups Follow

July 14, 2011

By Diana Bohn (Bohn is a member of the AFGJ board. The following is a based in part on the LASC workshop she attended.) The workshop entitled “When Threats and Economic Blackmail Fail, US Sponsored Coups Follow” at the LASC Militarization Conference focused on Haiti, Honduras & Venezuela with speakers representing each of those countries,…

Right-wing Unleashes Campaign Against Democracy in Latin America

May 27, 2011

By Chuck Kaufman US Latin Americanist Cold Warriors and their far-right allies in the region kicked off a propaganda campaign in May to influence Congress and US citizens against Venezuela and fellow ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas) countries.