Democracy

SMACC: Tell Facebook – Stop Censoring The News!

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…

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…

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!…

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…

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!…

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…