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Honduras & the US Military

September 22, 2011

By John Lindsay-Poland The following is an introduction to a report that can be downloaded in its entirety here. Honduras  has  increasingly  become  a  hub  for  U.S.  military  operations  in  Central  America,  centered  on  the  Soto  Cano  air base  (also  known  locally  as  Palmerola),  which  has  received  an  infusion  of  up  to  $45  million  in  construction…

A Decade of Anti-War Organizing

September 14, 2011

By Chuck Kaufman September 14, 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). As one of ANSWER’s founders, I take great pride in the role I played in helping to motivate the movement that brought to the streets the largest numbers of anti-war…

False Claims Versus Hard Realities: The Pending Free Trade Agreement with Colombia

September 6, 2011

by James Jordan With a little more than a year till the 2012 elections the White House and Congressional leadership are anxious to pass pending Free Trade Agreements as soon as possible. They are hoping that their constituents won’t notice what’s going on and, if they do, that they’ll have forgotten by Election Day, 2012.

Why I bought a one-way ticket to DC for October 6

September 5, 2011

By Chuck Kaufman There are iconic moments in the movement for justice and peace when, if you are not a participant, you regret it forever. My first was May Day 1971 when we shut down Washington, DC protesting the Vietnam War. I missed being with a million people in New York in September 1982 protesting…

Review of Jean Bricmont’s Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War

August 23, 2011

This is the first in a series of book reviews on militarism by Midge Quandt. Jean Bricmont, Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War, Monthly Review Press, 2006, 183 pp. Since the end of the Cold War, the doctrine of humanitarian intervention — which asserts that severe human rights violations justify the abrogation of…

Interview with Eberto Diaz Montes, President of FENSUAGRO (United National Federation of Peasant Farmers and Farm Workers), Colombia

August 21, 2011

This interview was conducted with Eberto Díaz Montes by James Patrick Jordan, who also translated it. AFGJ: The National Encounter for the Land and for Peace has been a success in bringing together so many sectors of Colombian society to talk about peace and a political solution to the conflict. Do you believe that this…

Colombia’s National Encounter for the Land and Peace: Is a Political Solution Possible?

August 21, 2011

by James Jordan The popular movement for a political solution in Colombia has taken a big step forward with the recent National Encounter for the Land and Peace. The August 12-15th gathering in Barrancabermeja was attended by more than 20,000 persons, bringing together peasant, indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities,

Labor, Sweatshops and CAFTA in Nicaragua

August 19, 2011

By Steve Watrous (Watrous is a professor and Chair of the Milwaukee Fair Trade Coalition.) As I walked through the big room of a clothing factory in Managua’s free trade zone, where about 800 workers were busy sewing and ironing black Wrangler jeans, the heat was horrible for a visitor from the north. I saw…

Campesinos in Honduras Killed

August 17, 2011

(Campesinos Pitted Against Military, Police, Mercenaries and Drug Traffickers in Palm Oil Region as Canada and US Strengthen Trade Interests) By Annie Bird (with Karen Spring) of Rights Action, August 2011 On August 14, one campesino and five Dinant security guards were killed in the Panama farm.

5 Reasons Americans Should Oppose Free Trade

August 12, 2011

By Jamie Way, M.A. While politicians on both side of the aisle push the conservative agenda of cutting government, many Americans are beginning to wonder if anyone in Washington is concerned with jobs. With the exception of the small sliver of our country that controls the majority of our wealth, most of us are or…