There is a crisis happening right now in Cauca, Colombia. The Colombian Armed Forces have attacked a “minga” in the village of Cairo, municipality of Cajibío – twice in two days – and are still present and threatening more assaults. The minga is a collective consultation called by indigenous, Afro-Colombian, and farming communities and…
by Eduardo Correa Senior and James Patrick Jordan The threat is real… The trumpets of regime change have sounded, and the drums of a possible war are beating against Venezuelan democracy. Provocations hitherto unimagined threaten to plunge the whole region into chaos and strike a serious blow against popular democracy around the world. Venezuela’s foreign…
NicaNotes is a blog for Nicaragua activists and those interested in Nicaragua, published by the Nicaragua Network, a project of the Alliance for Global Justice. It provides news and analysis from the context of Nicaragua Network’s long history of struggle in solidarity with the Sandinista Revolution. Guest Blogs on the OAS and a Movie Review of Las Sandinistas…
Públicado en El Turbión Por: James Patrick Jordan – octubre 30 de 2018 En lo que sería un descarado ataque a los acuerdos de paz de Colombia, el fiscal general Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira ha acusado a Martha Lucía Zamora, July Henríquez y Ernesto Caicedo, funcionarios de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), de haber…
The Comité Cerezo, a human rights organization based in Mexico City, is asking Alliance for Global Justice supporters to show international solidarity by signing this open letter to Mexico’s president-elect Manuel Lopez Obrador. It is especially appropriate that those of us who live in the United States sign, given that our taxes are paying for police militarization and prison…
Join August 14 Int’l Day of Action: End of Sanctions Against Venezuela! #SanctionsAreWar #EndVenezuelaSanctions As part of the campaign to end the sanctions against Venezuela groups from the United States and Canada are calling for International Solidarity against war and sanctions. Tuesday, August 14, 2018 marks the first anniversary of the Trump Administration’s expansion of sanctions against…
This declaration is released on the occasion of the inauguration of Ivan Duque, August 7, 2018, as President of Colombia, and in solidarity with the many demonstrations (more than 85 in 18 countries!) in Colombia and around the world demanding an end to political violence and that the peace accords be honored! FOR SPANISH, CLICK…
Ocasionado por la toma de posesión por Iván Duque de la Presidencia de Colombia el 7 de agosto de 2018, y en solidaridad con las manifestaciones en Colombia y el mundo en favor de la paz y contra la violencia política. FOR ENGLISH, CLICK HERE La Coalición Contra Bases Militares Extranjeras de Estados Unidos declara…
Dear friends in resistance, We are writing you because we are desperately concerned for our comrades in Colombia. You probably already know that last year was the worst year in well over ten years for murders of human rights defenders, eco-defenders, and popular mobilization leaders. Well, it has just gotten worse. We are getting messages…
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 James@AFGJ.org para incluir su organización como aprobador esta carta y sus cinco…
