Social Media Anti-Censorship Campaign: Click Here to Tell Facebook to Stop Online Censorship! Last Thursday the tech and social media giant Facebook expelled over 800 political pages from its website including mostly US based grassroots organizations such as The Free Thought Project, The Anti-Media, Cop Block, Filming Cops, End The Drug War, and Anti-GMO Foods…
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Audio-visual, Chuck Kaufman, Democracy, Uncategorized, Venezuela
Podcast Interview: New sanctions imposed on Venezuela as Trump openly discusses backing a coup
Listen to this interview with Chuck Kaufman on the Loud & Clear Podcast with Brian Becker. Chuck Kaufman is the National Co-Coordinator with the Alliance for Global Justice: The US has imposed new sanctions on several high-ranking officials in Venezuela, including Congresswoman Cilia Flores who also is the wife of President Maduro. The New York…
Democracy, NicaNotes Newsletter, Uncategorized
NicaNotes: Chomsky on Regime Change in Nicaragua
Chomsky on Regime Change in Nicaragua by ROGER HARRIS Originally published by Counterpunch on August 3, 2018 Photo by hobvias sudoneighm | CC BY 2.0 With patented angst, Noam Chomsky opined on President Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua to an agreeing Amy Goodman: “But there’s been a lot of corruption, a lot of repression. It’s autocratic, undoubtedly.” Earlier in their DemocracyNow!…
Action alerts, Democracy, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Tell Congress to Support Dialogue in Nicaragua, not impose more sanctions
Quixote Center/Alliance for Global Justice Urgent Action Take Action Tell Congress to Support Dialogue in Nicaragua, not impose more sanctions House Resolution 981 calls on the U.S. government to more aggressively employ the Magnitsky act as a means to sanction individual members of the Nicaraguan government, while also condemning violence in Nicaragua. The stated goal…
Democracy, Mexico, Uncategorized
Webinar, July 5, 8pm Eastern: What Now for Mexico’s Popular Movements?
A presentation by Antonio Cerezo of the Comité Cerezo Register HERE for this informative webinar! Today, July 1, 2018, Mexicans are voting in a presidential election that could take the country in a Leftward direction and reflect a massive rejection of the political status quo. It could additionally be a major blow to the colonialist…
Democracy, NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Armed Violence in Nicaragua: an Imported Product
Originally Printed on June 24, 2018 by Misión Verdad [Translated from the Spanish by the Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice.] The demonstrations by the opposition in Nicaragua in recent months must be framed in the context of a region where armed and “para-criminal” violence at the hands of bands like Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Calle…
Action alerts, Democracy, Honduras, Uncategorized
Honduras: Nine Years of Repression and Resistance
Free Honduran Political Prisoners! Stop Supporting Dictatorship! Send an email to US Congress demanding fundamental change in policies toward Honduras This alert prepared by the Honduras Solidarity Network June 28, 2018, marks 9 years since the US backed coup d’etat in Honduras: 9 years of increasing violence and impunity, poverty and inequity for the Honduran…
Democracy, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Emergency Alert – Immediate Action Needed Demand Democracy Now interview Camilo Mejia and Brian Willson to balance their Nicaragua coverage
Emergency Alert – Immediate Action Needed Demand Democracy Now interview Camilo Mejia and Brian Willson to balance their Nicaragua coverage Democracy Now! Has joined the corporate media and much of the liberal media in providing misleading, one-sided coverage of the tragic violence and social unrest in Nicaragua. We demand a higher standard from Democracy Now!…
Colombia, Delegations & tours, Democracy, Drug war, Eco-Solidarity, James Patrick Jordan, News, Uncategorized
Struggle and defiance at Colombia’s Feast of Pestilence
by James Patrick Jordan There is a scene in Arturo Alape’s novel, El Cadaver Insepulto (The Unburied Corpse) that sums up Colombia’s current reality. A small group of authorities have been called to enter the apartment of an elderly woman who has not been seen in the community for days. Her apartment is at the…
Chuck Kaufman, Democracy, NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Nicanotes: Let’s Think About the Consequences of our Actions
By Chuck Kaufman As the crisis in Nicaragua intensifies and the US and European corporate media, the human rights industrial complex, and voices traditionally hostile to Nicaraguan sovereignty grow ever more strident, I have become mystified at the reactions of some people who I used to think were of the Left, or at least were…