By Caitlin Roberts (She attended the AFGJ delegation to Honduras earlier this month. This piece was originally published in Works in Progress.) U.S. imperialism is alive and well, this much we know. Here in Honduras, rifle-bearing soldiers and cops, or perhaps police dressed in military garb, or perhaps private security guards borrowing police uniforms –…
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Delegations & tours, Democracy, News, Nicaragua
Delegation Finds US Election Interference
By George Pauk, M.D. (Dr. Pauk is a member of the AFGJ board and participated in the Nicaragua Network delegation to investigate US interference in Nicaragua’s 2011 national election.) A delegation organized by the Nicaragua Network just returned from a ten day investigation of the role of the United States in the upcoming November 2011…
Democracy, Haiti, Honduras, News, Venezuela
When Threats and Economic Blackmail Fail, US Sponsored Coups Follow
By Diana Bohn (Bohn is a member of the AFGJ board. The following is a based in part on the LASC workshop she attended.) The workshop entitled “When Threats and Economic Blackmail Fail, US Sponsored Coups Follow” at the LASC Militarization Conference focused on Haiti, Honduras & Venezuela with speakers representing each of those countries,…
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, News, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism
A Visit Inside Colombia’s Most Notorious Prison, La Tramacúa
By James Jordan, Alliance for Global Justice National Co-Coordinator I called Raquel Mogollón just minutes after she had come from a rare visit inside the pavilions of Colombia’s most notorious prison, the High Security Penitentiary of Valledupar, commonly known as La Tramacúa. Mogollón is the Chair of the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) Colombia Committee…
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Applications for First Session Due June 22nd
We have received a number of letters of interest from an exciting set of instructors for our new online activist school. Our instructor and course selection committee will be reviewing these materials late next week. If you are interested in applying to teach a course for the five week session that begins September 23rd, please…
Chuck Kaufman, Democracy, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, News
Right-wing Unleashes Campaign Against Democracy in Latin America
By Chuck Kaufman US Latin Americanist Cold Warriors and their far-right allies in the region kicked off a propaganda campaign in May to influence Congress and US citizens against Venezuela and fellow ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas) countries.
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Activist School Needs Instructors!
Alliance for Global Justice is in the initial steps of forming an Online Activist Training School. We hope to have it up and running this Fall and are looking for qualified instructors to teach our courses.
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Yes, Virginia, There is Evil in the World
By Chuck Kaufman (AFGJ National Co-Coordinator) I have been hearing a lot lately that we need to be proactive; that we need to focus our work on positive things. If we believe that a better world is possible, we need to build that better world.
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“FARC Files” Used to Accuse Leftist Leaders
On May 10, 2011 The Guardian newspaper in the UK and the New York Times published stories on the May 10 release of a compilation of records allegedly from computers and flash drives seized in a 2008 cross border raid in Ecuador of a camp where Colombian FARC commander Raul Reyes was negotiating FARC prisoner…
Global Justice Monitor, News
April/May Global Justice Monitor Available
A special edition of our bimonthly Global Justice Monitor is now available. Please read the April/May edition on the Latin America Solidarity Conference by clicking here. This edition contains the following articles: Conference Tackles Militarism: By Chuck Kaufman Goliath Staggered: The Story of SOAW in Costa Rica & the Wikileaks Revelations: By Carol Marujo, Ed.D.,…
