This interview with the Memoria Viva Union’s president Victor Osorio is available in Spanish on the AFGJ Youtube Channel The Memoria Viva (Living Memory) Union of bodyguards is the largest union in its sector. They are made up almost entirely of signers to the 2016 Peace Accord who ended the armed insurgency in favor of…
By William Camacaro (National Co-Coordinator) One of the most offensive expressions used to talk about people with disabilities is the term “handicapped.” Author David Mikkelson describes the origin of the word: “In 1504, after a brutal war in England, King Henry VII had an idea. King Henry knew that the war had left his country…
AFGJ is in the midst of its Summer Fund Drive, ending September 22nd. We hope you will consider sending a tax-deductible contribution this Labor Day weekend It’s Labor Day weekend–Hooray! Workers deserve days to celebrate and relax, and we at AFGJ hope that each and every one of us will do just that. Find Labor…
By Maya Hernández (National Co-Coordinator) This past year, profit-over-people ideology and anti-union efforts were particularly prevalent in sectors that demanded the most labor. Millions of dollars went into campaigns to stop union organizing at the same time that several anti-worker policies passed into effect, painting a grim future for workers across the United States. The…
“When white folks catch a cold, Black folks get pneumonia.” (My grandfather, George Robinson, Sr.) By Camille Landry (National Co-Coordinator) What color is Covid? Many people would say red and blue, citing the familiar graphic of a fuzzy red globe with blue spikes. Others might say that Covid has no color. But the Covid pandemic…
Alliance for Global Justice and Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group (NSCAG) invite you to a webinar “Nicaragua’s Advances in Labor Relations” Sunday, March 13 12 noon Pacific / 1 PM Nicaragua / 3 PM Eastern / 7 PM Greenwich UK (These times reflect the US change to Daylight Saving on March 13; the UK remains…
We are very worried for the safety and security of Centro Pazífico coordinator, Darnelly Rodriguez. On November 19 2021, she received the second of two death threats in two weeks. This threat came from the AGC paramilitary group. She was listed along with several other social movement and union leaders in a pamphlet that was…
by James Patrick Jordan originally published in the Orinoco Tribune The Solidarity Center’s activities in Venezuela and Colombia skyrocketed last year. Funding from the mis-named National Endowment for Democracy (NED) soared to almost 60% over the previous year’s awards. The 2020 funding, alone, represents over 40% of the total for similar grants for the last…
SINTRAINTABACO, Colombia’s tobacco workers union, is demonstrating TODAY, Friday, October 8th, at noon, at the Philip Morris (Atria Corporation) International headquarters in New York (120 Park Avenue). Join a virtual picket line and flood CEO William “Billy” Giffords and Chief Human Resources Officer Charlie Whitaker with emails telling them to meet the workers’ demands that…
Webinar with Larry Spencer and Haeden Wright! September 28th, 2021: Stanfield Smith hosts a conversation with Larry Spencer, UMWA District 20 Vice President, who represents the 1,100 coal miners in three UMWA locals which have been on strike against Warrior Met in Alabama since April 1, 2021, and Haeden Wright, an auxillary president for…
