By James Patrick Jordan Trying to understand the complexities of Haiti and its struggle for real democracy can be difficult. However, the most basic point to grasp is this: since the US directed overthrow of President Jean Bertrand Aristide 20 years ago, Haiti has endured relentless electoral interference, exploitation, invasion, and occupation by or on…
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Action alerts, Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Tanya Nuñez, William Camacaro
Threats to Democracy: Is Colombia’s Petro Administration Facing a Coup?
By Tanya Nuñez, William Camacaro, and James Jordan We’re reaching out to you with urgent news regarding the political landscape in Colombia. The elected government of President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Francia Marquez, whose rise to power marked a historic moment in Colombian politics, is facing imminent threats from the Colombian oligarchy seeking to…
Anti-War, Haiti, James Patrick Jordan, Uncategorized
Haiti and US Proxy Wars Around the World
Send an Email to Congress to Stop the Biden “Permanent War” Funding Requests! By James Patrick Jordan (This is an adaptation from a lecture given at the Salt of the Earth Labor College in Tucson, Arizona on October 28, 2023) Send an Email to Congress to Stop the Biden “Permanent War” Funding Requests! If we’re…
Haiti, James Patrick Jordan, Uncategorized
Don’t Be Confused About Haiti
In some cases, though, what is most confusing is that there are those who should know better who are still ready to believe that this time this orchestrated intervention can set things right. No, the US and its proxies aren’t suddenly the good guys come to the rescue. US policies are the root of the…
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Uncategorized
US Representatives trying to beat Colombia into submission
by James Patrick Jordan For years the US government has given the wrong kind of aid to Colombia – billions of dollars for war and repression, and to secure profits for global capitalism. It has made Colombia both a dependent state and a crucially strategic military colony for US imperialism. What it has not…
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Respect for Democracy, Uncategorized
Might the US Support a Coup in Colombia?
Might the US Support a Coup in Colombia? The Colombian oligarchy wants to remove Gustavo Petro from the presidency. Are US actors helping? The following article is an important update about the threats in Colombia of a coup against the administration of President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Fráncia Márquez. Petro and Márquez came to…
Colombia, Human Rights School, James Patrick Jordan, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Tanya Nuñez, Uncategorized
Colombian Human Rights Defenders Union, SINDHEP, Expelled From The Bargaining Table
By Tanya Nuñez and James Patrick Jordan In a new act of anti-union abuse by Carlos Camargo, Colombia’s right wing Ombudsman, the Human Rights Defenders Union, SINDHEP, was recently expelled from the collective bargaining table on reasons that have no legal basis. This arbitrary and illegal act comes days after SINDHEP made a public denouncement…
Haiti, James Patrick Jordan, Prison Imperialism, Uncategorized
Haiti, Hunger, and US Prison Imperialism
By James Patrick Jordan Three prisoners in the US-built prison in Petit-Goâve, Haiti starved to death between August 23 and September 27, 2022. The website Haiti Libre reports, “…one of the deceased prisoners was from Léogâne imprisoned for having stolen an electric wire and… [another] from the 5th communal section of Petit-Goâve, was serving…
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Uncategorized
Peace! Peace! But in Colombia, there is no peace
By James Patrick Jordan Send an email to the White House and to your Senator to urge that the White House withdraw, and that the Senate reject, the nomination of SouthComm’s Jean Elizabeth Manes as the next ambassador to Colombia. The ambassador to Colombia should be an ambassador for peace, not an agent of US…
AFGJ Saturday!, Aminta Zea, Anti-racism, Cultural solidarity & struggle, James Patrick Jordan, Leo Gimenez, Madeline McClure, Uncategorized
New Music to Move and Groove the Masses – A Review of Releases from 2022
by Aminta Zea (from Lo Eterno), Leo Gimenes, Madeline McClure, and James Patrick Jordan The world is a difficult place right now, with so many anxieties and fears and threats and pandemics and coups and wars and missed opportunities as the planet plunges head strong towards eco-disaster… The crazy thing about it is that 2022…