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…
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Calls to action, Colombia, Maya Hernández
Crisis in Buenaventura, Colombia
by Maya Hernández Send an email to Colombian authorities to demand an end to the displacement and violence in Buenaventura Buenaventura is the main port for Colombian foreign trade and the second largest city in the prosperous state of Valle del Cauca. Historically, the territory has been inhabited by Afro-descendants, indigenous peoples, and campesinos. Despite…
Calls to action, Colombia, Maya Hernández
Crisis en Buenaventura, Colombia
Buenaventura, Colombia, tiene el puerto principal de comercio al exterior y la segunda ciudad más grande del próspero estado del Valle del Cauca. Históricamente, el territorio ha sido habitado por afrodescendientes, indígenas, y campesinos. A pesar de la diversidad y riqueza cultural de este territorio, es conocido principalmente por sus altos niveles de pobreza, dificultades…
Colombia, Español, Labor, Maya Hernández
Entrevista: A Pesar de la Escalada de Asesinatos en Colombia, Este Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas Lucha por el Derecho a la Tierra
por Maya Hernández To read in English FENSUAGRO o la Federación Nacional Sindical Unitaria Agropecuaria, es una federación de sindicatos de trabajadores agrícolas con sede en Colombia que aboga por los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas, jornaleros, indígenas rurales y afrocolombianos. Luchan por una reforma agraria integral y por su derecho a vivir y trabajar…
Calls to action, Colombia, Labor, Maya Hernández, Uncategorized
Interview: Despite Escalating Assassinations, Colombian Farmworker Union Fights for the Right to the Land
by Maya Hernández (Published in Labor Notes) en español The situation has recently gotten even worse in Colombia—already the world’s most dangerous place to be a union member. Right now social movement leaders, union members, and participants in the peace process are being killed at a rate of more than one victim per day. With…
Colombia, Maya Hernández, Police militarization, Uncategorized
Colombia’s ESMAD and the History of U.S. Policing
by Maya Hernández “A cop is a cop,” said James Baldwin in 1971. Undoubtedly, Baldwin was pointing to the way that U.S. law enforcement operates as a fraternized collective, wherein individual officers are not so much the problem as the embedded systemic policies that promote the use of violence. The actual objective of instituting the…
Action alerts, Border, Immigration, Maya Hernández, Prison Imperialism
Forced Sterilizations Echo History of U.S. Genocide
The violations against the people at Georgia’s detention center reveal the inherently abusive structure of prisons, and fuel the ongoing fight for abolition. by Maya Hernandez, National Co-Coordinator at the Alliance for Global Justice. Recently, Project South published a report to call attention to the concerning violations taking place inside Georgia’s Irwin County Detention Center…