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Honduran Peasants Resist Evictions, Murders and Attacks

August 10, 2011

The Alliance for Global Justice recently sponsored a delegation to Honduras. The attached document is the report produced by delegation participants and is based on the events the saw and people they met during their time in the country. Please read the Honduras Delegation Report here.

Anger and the Euro-descended working and middle classes

August 9, 2011

By Chuck Kaufman (This post can also be read on Chuck’s Znet Blog.) I am angry. I don’t personally have any kids or grandkids, but I am deeply angry anyway that the children and grandchildren of my friends are going to have a worse education, poorer health care, lower paying jobs, less personal security, and…

Online Activist School to Teach Skills, Knowledge

August 8, 2011

This post can also be read on Chuck Kaufman’s Zblog or at Upside Down World. One of the ideas to come out of a year-long process within the Latin America Solidarity Coalition on how to better confront US militarism, was the idea that we need more activists with organizing skills and more organizers who have…

Footage of Honduras Eviction

August 2, 2011

This video was created by The Real News and can be viewed on their website.

Honduras Accompaniment and Food Sovereignty Delegation

August 2, 2011

Date: January 6-15, 2012 Sponsored by: Alliance for Global Justice Since the June 2009 military coup, large landowners in the fertile Aguan Valley of Northern Honduras have used the military, police, and private security guards, to terrorize villages and expand their lucrative African palm plantations.

AfGJ Files Complaint Over US Honduras Embassy Endangerment of US Citizens

July 25, 2011

The following complaint was submitted through the office of Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) by AfGJ National Co-Coordinator Chuck Kaufman after he returned from leading a delegation to Honduras that had a dangerous stand-off with Honduran Police. July 18, 2011 Dear Rep. Raul Grijalva: I recently returned to my home in Tucson

AFGJ’s Delegation to Colombia

July 19, 2011

By James Jordan, National Co-Coordinator Alliance for Global Justice delegations center around making connections, gathering and disseminating important new information and, above all, training, inspiring and empowering delegates to return home and get active. We don’t do political tourism. We do go to pains to find partners who are involved in crucial struggles, but who…

Make Your Voice Heard (Loudly) at Town Hall Meetings and Candidate Forums

July 19, 2011

By Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator (The following piece was written by Kaufman for the New Priorities Network, of which AFGJ is a member.) In 2009 angry Tea Party activists hijacked the health care debate with loud and confrontational performances at Congressional Town Hall Meetings across the country. The corporate media loved them and amplified their…

AFGJ Delegations Support Peace and Justice

July 18, 2011

By Chuck Kaufman, AFGJ National Co-Coordinator The Alliance for Global Justice’s June-July delegations to Colombia, Nicaragua and Honduras demonstrated once again how important it is for people of the United States to witness for themselves the on-the-ground realities in countries that are the focus of US foreign policy attention. They also showed the critical role…

Costa Rica Bans Depleted Uranium Weapons

July 17, 2011

By Carol Marujo (Dr. Marujo, a US citizen living in Costa Rica, is a freelance writer, a peace activist and a member of the Friends Peace Center and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.) Costa Rica became the world’s second country to ban depleted uranium weapons on June 9, 2011. President Laura Chinchilla…