Militarism

Militarism, Uncategorized, Venezuela

Venezuela Solidarity Petition

March 31, 2014

When the Bolivarian Revolution is under attack, what do we do? Stand up fight back! Please sign and share this petition!

Coffee Workers Being Released–Just Peace Coffee Brigade CANCELED

March 10, 2014

Just Peace Coffee Brigade CANCELED — Dolores Detainees are being released in time for coffee harvest! The Alliance for Global Justice, working with the Colombian human rights group, Lazos de Dignidad, and the Tolima Association of Peasant Workers (Astracatol), has been invited to organize a coffee picking brigade to Dolores, Tolima, a community threatened by…

Political prisoners, killings mount in Colombia as peace momentum slows

January 17, 2014

Jailing of Francisco Toloza – In context By W. T. Whitney Jr. 2014 had barely begun. Already assassins had killed activist rapper Gerson Martínez, community leader Giovanny Leiton, the latter’s life partner, and unionist Ever Luis Marin Rolong. A police projectile thrown at Sintraelecol union president Óscar Arturo Orozco gravely injured his left eye. He…

US Labor Against the War Workshop

December 12, 2013

From a War Economy to a Peace Economy:The Challenge of Economic Conversion Millions of workers in the U.S. are employed by the military-industrial-security complex. What are the steps we must take to move the country from a war and military-dependent economy to a sustainable demilitarized economy? How do we engage those whose jobs and incomes…

Immigration and Border Militarization People’s Power Assembly

October 15, 2013

Tear Down the Walls Peoples Power Assembly, Scheduled for Saturday, November 2 at 4-6:45 P.M. Immigration has been the human norm since even before the first family clans stepped out of Africa. With the creation of nations came militarized borders. Borders created by colonizers in Africa, the Middle East and the Americas divided communities and…

Shutdown the Shutdown Talking Points and Resources

October 5, 2013

Compiled by Peace Action’s Move the Money Working Group We need to find ways to connect the current Congressional crisis with the ongoing struggle to change national spending priorities: Move the Money from wars and weapons to fund jobs, human services and diplomacy. Two immediate actions we can take: 1. Public education: Letters to the…

US Imperialism and Anti-Militarism People’s Power Assembly

September 20, 2013

Tear Down the Walls People’s Power Assembly, Scheduled for Sunday, November 3 at 8:30-11:15 A.M. Imperialism and the spread of capitalism were built on the shoulders and graves of the peoples of Africa and the Americas. Resistance to imperialism and its military enforcement arm is as old as imperialism itself. Residents of the United States…

NO WAR AGAINST SYRIA – Take Action!

September 3, 2013

Following are two action calls by the ANSWER and UNAC anti-war coalitions. From ANSWER: Send a letter to Congress: Vote NO on the Syria war resolution Mass Demonstration in D.C. – Sat., Sept. 7 Send an email letter right now to your elected representatives in Congress demanding that they vote NO on the Syria…

Brutal Repression of National Strike in Colombia-Santos Declares Militarization of Bogotá

August 30, 2013

by James Jordan SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM TO SEE WHAT ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE! Colombian Armed Forces have brutally attacked members of the “Paro Agrario” National Farmers and Popular Strike, with at least four to five persons dead and reports of hundreds wounded. Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos, dismissing strikers as vandals, has ordered…

It’s Time to Question Border Patrol Use of Deadly Force

October 18, 2012

By Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice On October 10, a US Border Patrol agent shot through the border fence into an urban neighborhood in the Mexican city of Nogales and shot to death a 16 year-old Mexican citizen.