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Lucy Parsons Popular Human Rights School General Newsletter: Issue #2
Issue #2: Enroll in our next class; Support our students with a tax-deductible donation; AFGJ demands justice for Nicaragua & an end to U.S. human rights abuses; Download our Human Rights in the US 2023 Report; Take action! Join us in building grassroots solidarity and capacity Become a certified Human Rights Observer – enroll in…
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Contact your Senators! Oppose new and old sanctions on Nicaragua!
It’s time to recognize and support Nicaragua’s achievements rather than undermine them with sanctions On June 8, 2023, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced legislation that would extend the U.S. government’s authority to impose sanctions on Nicaragua through December 31, 2028! The bill is now in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with…
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A President Behind Bars. Racism, Classism, & the Violation of Human Rights in Peru
Peru has lived in uncertainty since the imprisonment of President Pedro Castillo since last December 7, 2022. Since his imprisonment, thousands of people have taken to the streets of Peru to demand the freedom of the president, and the restoration of democracy, and one constitutes, the repression has been brutal, with an indeterminate number of…
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Help stop the nomination of Elliott Abrams to the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy! Email your representatives!
Biden nominates genocide supporter to diplomacy panel! President Joe Biden announced on July 3 that he would nominate Elliott Abrams to a position on the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Abrams was a supporter of the worst human rights violations in Central America in the 1980s and has been guilty of similar human rights…
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Press release (June 20, 2023): Alliance for Global Justice demands justice for Nicaragua and an end to the United States’ ongoing human rights abuses
Press release For immediate release: June 20, 2023 Contact: Camille Landry Alliance for Global Justice (202) 540-8336, ext. 508 [email protected] Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) demands justice for Nicaragua and an end to the United States’ ongoing human rights abuses AFGJ calls attention to the United States’ crimes against humanity This June, The International People’s…
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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…
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While claiming to defend freedom around the world, the U.S. has hundreds of political prisoners – and the majority are people of color
Racism is still the driving force behind U.S. political imprisonment By James Patrick Jordan, Eduardo Garcia, Natalia Burdyńska Schuurman (Program Coordinators) Originally published on Covert Action Magazine Political imprisonment in the United States exists primarily as a tool of racist repression. It’s aimed disproportionately at people of color as well as others engaged in anti-racist…
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Over 530 years of struggle and solidarity: Indigenous resistance in the U.S.
None of us are free until all of us are free! By Camille Landry (Program Coordinator) Any analysis that originates in the United States claiming to accurately and fairly address issues pertaining to the human rights of Indigenous people must begin with the acknowledgement that we occupy land that is the ancestral home of Indigenous…
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Voter suppression in the U.S.: if you can’t beat them, cheat them
An examination of the structural inequalities and anti-democratic nature of the United States government By Camille Landry (Program Coordinator) The singer Paul Simon told us there are 50 ways to leave your lover. Turns out there are at least 50 ways to suppress the votes of U.S. voters. What is a democracy? The term democracy…