The following was originally sent by the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. Thank you to all of our supporters who followed through on the last alert! On Friday, May 6th, the bank accounts of Hatem and Naima Abudayyeh of Chicago were frozen. The bank manager at the TCF (Twin Cities Federal) branch could not explain…
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Action alerts, Democracy, International solidarity - not Americas
Activist’s Bank Account Frozen
This alert was originally released by the Committee to Stop FBI Repression and the Coaltition for People’s Rights. Call: The Office of Foreign Assets Control at (202) 622-2410 or (202) 622-1615 Demand: – Unfreeze the bank accounts of the Abudayyeh family – Stop repression against Palestinian, anti-war and international solidarity activists.
Democracy, News, Nicaragua
Foreign Influence in Elections is Wrong: Ours or Theirs
Abolish the NED and Return USAID to development: Call your elected officials and candidates! Challenge your leaders to support democracy! The political class – at least the Democrat part of it – is all aghast at the possibility that contributions by foreign corporations are tainting our electoral system. The Alliance for Global Justice Respect for…
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…
Democracy, News
Grassroots Movements and Electoral Politics – New Publication Available Now
In this three essay series, Grassroots Movements and Electoral Politics: Strategies for Change in Latin America, Midge Quandt investigates the pros and cons of electoral and grassroots approaches to change. While exploring the question of whether to defy state power or take it, Quandt raises many interesting questions about the most promising route for radical…
Action alerts, Democracy, Honduras
Honduran Coup d’état, a ‘win’ for the U.S.?
This article was written by Tom Loudon of the Quixote Center. Today, Pepe Lobo will be inaugurated as the new President of Honduras in what many consider to be an institutionalization of the coup d’état which took place seven months ago. Lobo comes to the Presidency as a result of a highly disputed election process…
Action alerts, Democracy, Haiti
No Support for Haiti’s Undemocratic Elections
Demands: 1. No financial support for February legislative elections. 2. No recognition of elections that exclude major political parties, including Haiti’s largest party Fanmi Lavalas. 3. No election monitoring because it would legitimize an undemocratic process 4. Stop election interference by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International Republican Institute (IRI), National Democratic Institute (NDI),…
Action alerts, Democracy, Honduras
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK IN HONDURAS! PEOPLE BEING ROUNDED UP IN STADIUMS, THE BRAZILIAN EMBASSY IS UNDER SIEGE!
September 22, 2009 [The Alliance for Global Justice has received this action alert from Rights Action. For more information, go to: http://www.rightsaction.org/] Please write immediately to the UN missions of the members of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, from Canada, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,…
Action alerts, Alba countries, Democracy, Drug war, Humanitarian Aid
US funding Bolivian opposition: Morales
Press TV. September 15, 2009 Bolivian President Evo Morales accuses Washington of funding the campaigns of his rivals to prevent his reelection in Bolivia’s upcoming presidential election. Morales took his accusations of subversion against the United States to new levels on Tuesday, claiming that his rivals in the December presidential election had received campaign funds…
