Just Peace Coffee Brigade CANCELED — Dolores Detainees are being released in time for coffee harvest! The Alliance for Global Justice, working with the Colombian human rights group, Lazos de Dignidad, and the Tolima Association of Peasant Workers (Astracatol), has been invited to organize a coffee picking brigade to Dolores, Tolima, a community threatened by…
Find out and start planning for 10 days Tearing Down the Walls to solving climate chaos! http://globalclimateconvergence.org/ Sign up to be on the call! February 11th, 8pm EST/ 5pm PST. Click here! Global Climate Convergence PEOPLE PLANET PEACE OVER PROFIT 10 Days to Change Course Earth Day to May Day 2014 Mother Earth Day to…
Tear Down the Walls People’s Power Assembly, Scheduled for Saturday, November 2 at 4-6:45 P.M. Right now the planet is in the middle of the 6th Great Extinction period and it has been caused by humans, specifically the current dictators in the 1%. No amount of personal consumer choices is going to put the brakes…
YOUR ACTION NEEDED! We cannot stress enough how important this case is, and how vital is your solidarity. We have been asked, especially, that people make phone calls to the Colombian Embassy. The Alliance for Global Justice is urging you to take TWO actions. 1) Call the Colombian Embassy at: Tel: 202-387-8338 Fax: 202-232 8643…
(Versión español sigue el inglés) Following is a statement on attacks by the Colombian Armed Forces against unarmed protesting farmers in the Catatumbo region. In attacks on June 22 and June 25, 2013, four persons have been killed, scores wounded and hundreds arrested. Also included below are links to two videos, one from the 22nd,…
By W. T. Whitney Jr., June 26, 2013 Photo by Telesur [NOTE: As this article is being published, we have just received word of yet another unprovoked attack in Catatumbo by the Colombian Armed Forces on Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Since Saturday, four peasant protesters have been killed in the region by the…
At the crossroads between North and South America, Nicaragua is astonishingly bio-diverse and is a regional leader in terms of energy from renewable resources. It is also on the frontline of climate change, suffering increasingly from desertification, flooding and crop devastation. And, this little country is also profoundly engaged in two projects that could re-shape…
Originally posted on Upside Down World. Written by Chuck Kaufman, Monday, 25 February 2013 13:06 In June 2011 when Tanya Kerssen and I led a delegation of human rights accompaniers to the Aguan Valley of Honduras, we did not know that we would, ourselves, play a cameo role in the life and death struggle for…
Maribel Oviedo (in center) leads delegates from the Alliance for Global Justice and the National Lawyers Guild to visit peasant farmers in the village of Maracaibo in Tolima, Colombia. We have received news from the Colombian human rights group, Lazos de Dignidad, that peasant union leader Maribel Oviedo has been released without charges. Maribel had…
The Alliance for Global Justice wants to encourage all supporters of peace and justice to go to Chicago in May to protest the Summits of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Group of 8 (G8)–the eight governments with the world’s largest economies.
