Colombia’s National Protection Unit (UNP – Unidad de Protección Nacional) is consistently NOT providing the necessary vehicles and other tools for the protection of human rights defenders, social leaders, and signers of the peace accords. This has resulted in unnecessary casualties such as the death of Ronald Rojas, ex combatant, peace accord signer, and a…
Labor
Action alerts, Anti-War, Colombia, Labor
Labor and Peace in Colombia-Sindicalismo y la Paz en Colombia
Labor Unions and Peace in Colombia / El Sindicalismo y la Paz en Colombia Presentado en español con interpretación en inglés Presented in Spanish, with English interpretation Miercoles 24 de mayo de 2023. 2:00 pm hora de Colombia. Wednesday, May 24, 2023 Noon Pacific Time, 1pm Mountain, 2pm Central, and 3pm Eastern Register today! Colombia’s…
Colombia, Labor, Uncategorized
Assaults on Living Memory Labor Union Threaten Colombia’s Peace
Diego Mejía, signer of Colombia’s peace accord, and member of the Memoria Viva (Living Memory) union’s national council, was assassinated by two hit men on April 9, 2023, in Puerto Asis, Putumayo, Colombia. On April 13, union member Jhon Jader Ferreyra was wounded in another attack in Ibague in the Department of Tolima. Both these…
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Labor, Maya Hernández, Uncategorized, Worker-to-Worker Solidarity
Interview with Victor Osorio, President of Colombia’s Memoria Viva Security Guards Union
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…
Human Rights in the U.S. Reports, Human Rights School, Labor, William Camacaro
Speaking of disability
By William Camacaro (Program 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 Saturday!, Labor
AFGJ Saturday! A Special Labor Day Weekend Organizers Guide
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…
Human Rights in the U.S. Reports, Human Rights School, Labor, Maya Hernández, Solidarity with North American liberation, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Labor organizing in the U.S. in 2022: confronting the anti-union, anti-worker corporate agenda
By Maya Hernández (Program 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…
Anti-racism, Camille Landry, Human Rights in the U.S. Reports, Human Rights School, Labor, Solidarity with North American liberation
The color of Covid: racial inequities in the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
“When white folks catch a cold, Black folks get pneumonia.” (My grandfather, George Robinson, Sr.) By Camille Landry (Program 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…
Labor, Nicaragua, Webinar
Webinar Recording: Nicaragua Advances in Labor Relations
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…
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Labor, Uncategorized
Death Squads threaten Colombian Human Rights Defender Darnelly Rodriguez twice in two weeks
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…