The Alliance for Global Justice and the People’s Human Rights Observatory express our profound alarm over the recent threats against Peace Worker and labor leader William Salazar and his family. Salazar is the president of SINDHEP, the union of Human Rights Defenders in Colombia’s Ombudsman’s (peoples advocate) office. He is also the president of REDSIPAZ,…
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Virtual Course and Film Festival: The Rights of Indigenous & Afrodescendant Peoples in Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast
Nicaragua: Advances & Autonomy a project by AFGJ-Nicaragua Network & Casa Benjamin Linder invites you to join the Virtual Course & Film Festival The Rights of Indigenous & Afrodescendant Peoples in Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast October 19-November 9, 2023 (4 sessions) Register here! Session 1: International Solidarity Thursday, October 19 / 7pm Eastern / 5pm Central…
Countries, Delegations & tours, Eco-Solidarity, Human Rights School, Nicaragua, Programs, Respect for Democracy, Uncategorized
Delegation announcement! Advances & Autonomy Brigade: Rights of Indigenous & Afrodescendant Peoples on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast
Join us to witness, experience and learn about advances and autonomy on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast Did you know Nicaragua has deeded 1/3 of its territory to Indigenous communities? Indigenous & Afro-Descendant communities form two self-governing autonomous regions where in just 15 years local and national projects have transformed life through mutlicultural and multilingual education at…
Eco-Solidarity, Uncategorized, Venezuela, Webinars
Webinar announcement: Intro to Ecosocialism & Report-Back from the Second Encounter of the First Ecosocialist International in Venezuela
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 4 pm PT / 6 pm CT / 7 pm ET & Caracas Co-sponsored by Orinoco Tribune & Anticonquista Register here In times of global nightmares, one hundred delegates from five continents gathered in the maroon municipality of Veroes, Yaracuy State, Venezuela and made a pact with Mother Earth, registering…
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Lucy Parsons Popular Human Rights School General Newsletter: Issue #2
Issue #2: Enroll in our next class; Support our students with a tax-deductible donation; AFGJ demands justice for Nicaragua & an end to U.S. human rights abuses; Download our Human Rights in the US 2023 Report; Take action! Join us in building grassroots solidarity and capacity Become a certified Human Rights Observer – enroll in…
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Report-back: Alliance for Global Justice joins Nicaraguans and solidarity movements in celebration of the 44th Anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution
By Natalia Burdyńska Schuurman Last week, Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) was among the thousands of Nicaraguan citizens, youth and international delegates present at the 44th Anniversary celebration of the Sandinista Popular Revolution in Managua, Nicaragua. I was honored and ecstatic to be part of this shared space to rejoice in the sustained peace, prosperity…
Action alerts, Anti-War, Human Rights School, Nicaragua, Respect for Democracy, Sanctions Kill Campaign, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism), U.S. sanctions
Contact your Senators! Oppose new and old sanctions on Nicaragua!
It’s time to recognize and support Nicaragua’s achievements rather than undermine them with sanctions On June 8, 2023, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced legislation that would extend the U.S. government’s authority to impose sanctions on Nicaragua through December 31, 2028! The bill is now in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with…
Peru, Respect for Democracy
A President Behind Bars. Racism, Classism, & the Violation of Human Rights in Peru
Peru has lived in uncertainty since the imprisonment of President Pedro Castillo since last December 7, 2022. Since his imprisonment, thousands of people have taken to the streets of Peru to demand the freedom of the president, and the restoration of democracy, and one constitutes, the repression has been brutal, with an indeterminate number of…
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Help stop the nomination of Elliott Abrams to the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy! Email your representatives!
Biden nominates genocide supporter to diplomacy panel! President Joe Biden announced on July 3 that he would nominate Elliott Abrams to a position on the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Abrams was a supporter of the worst human rights violations in Central America in the 1980s and has been guilty of similar human rights…
Anti-War, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru, Respect for Democracy, Venezuela
Rally announcement: Celebrate and Defend the Sovereignty of Latin American and Caribbean Countries!
Sunday, July 16, 2 pm ET in front of the White House, Washington, DC Can’t make it? Watch our livestream! July is an important month for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean! July 19th is the anniversary of the Sandinista People’s Revolution in Nicaragua, AND the Third Takeover of Lima by the indigenous,…