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Bilingual WEBINAR presented by the Honduras Solidarity Network

Honduras Solidarity Network HSN

[español abajo] Roots of the Exodus: from the Honduran political crisis to the Refugee caravan- an update Tuesday, December 11 at 7pm CT and Central American Time/8pm ET/6pm MT/5pm PT Please join this Honduras Solidarity Network webinar with Honduran journalist, former opposition congressman, and human rights defender, Bartolo Fuentes who was accompanying the Refugee Caravan…

Venezuela-ALBA Weekly 12.7.2018 Camilo Mejia Speech: Information

Alex Main: Is Latin America Still the US’s “Backyard”?   Venezuela Mexican Unions Show Solidarity with Maduro, Venezuela Russia & Venezuela sign $5b investment contracts for oil production, mining, wheat Nicaragua Camilo Mejia’s excellent speech on the Present US Disinformation Regime Change operation, with Q &A, including about the Chinese funded canal and abortion law…

Prisioneros Políticos de los Estados Unidos

¡ATENCIÓN! La lista nueva en español abajo de prisioneros políticos de los Estados Unidos éstá en  proceso de traducción.Hace un clic acá para ver una lista corriente en inglés. La lista actual (en inglés) tiene listado 99 prisioneros políticos, incluyendo 39 de ellos incarcelados en la prisión estadounidense de Guantánao en Cuba ocupado. Leonard Peltier,…

Struggle and defiance at Colombia’s Feast of Pestilence

by James Patrick Jordan There is a scene in Arturo Alape’s novel, El Cadaver Insepulto (The Unburied Corpse) that sums up Colombia’s current reality. A small group of authorities have been called to enter the apartment of an elderly woman who has not been seen in the community for days. Her apartment is at the…

Cinco Demandas por la Paz en Colombia – Carta Abierta por Defensores de Derechos Humanos Internacionales

Incluyen sus nombres y organizaciones con Noam Chomsky, Adolfo Pérez Ezquivel (ganador del Premio Nobel de la Paz), y Piedad Córdoba, vocera de Colombianas y Colombianos por la paz, y muchas organizaciones internacionales en defensa de los derechos humanos. Envía una carta a [email protected] para incluir su organización como aprobador esta carta y sus cinco…

Five Demands for Peace in Colombia – Open Letter by International Human Rights Defenders

Join Noam Chomsky, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Adolfo Perez Ezquivel, Colombians for Peace founder Piedad Córdoba, and many international human rights and solidarity organizations in taking a stand for peace in Colombia. Endorse this sign-on letter and its five demands. You may also sign as an individual, along with your organizational affiliation (for identification purposes…

Coming to a City Near You! Colombia’s Fensuagro + Mexico’s CNTE Unions Tour the US

Join The Tour! April 5-19, 2018 Chicago – Denver – Tucson – Phoenix – LA – Oakland – Sacramento – San Francisco Transnational corporations know no borders, so, farming and working families must reach across borders to protect our interests and win our liberation together! This is why the Alliance for Global Justice is supporting…

Sweet Dreams and Nightmares – Can Colombia Achieve a Just Peace?

by James Patrick Jordan The dream of achieving a just and durable peace in Colombia may be taking a turn for the worst, becoming a nightmare of massacre and abuse, where hopes of democracy have come head to head against a march toward fascism. That is the sad reality. But it is not an inevitable…

Genocidio Cultural y los Asaltos contra el Río Yaqui

por James Patrick Jordan “Eso es un cuerpo de agua nombrado por el pueblo…. Han estado viviendo allá desde antes la llegada de los invasores. Para eso ser sacado deja el pueblo sin recursos. Es inmoral.” To read in English, click here Hace clic aquí para leer la declaración del Observatorio de Derechos Humanos del…

Cultural Genocide and the Assaults on the Rio Yaqui

by James Patrick Jordan “This is a body of water named for the people themselves…. They’ve been living there since before the invaders showed up. For that to be taken away leaves the people high and dry. It’s immoral.” Para leer este artículo en español Read the People’s Human Rights Observatory Statement of Solidarity with…