Colombia masses continued mobilizing to demand justice for Javier Ordoñez, killed by the police on September 10, 2020, and to stop police brutal repression of the ensuing uprising. On September 11, 2020, the AFGJ responded immediately requesting our partners and supporters to voice our outrage over the murder of Javier Ordoñez, and the brutal repression…
By Eunice Escobar and James Patrick Jordan Colombia’s national Human Rights Day began with the brutal pre-sunrise killing of Javier Ordoñez, a 46-year-old lawyer and taxi driver. In the early morning hours of September 9, 2020, bystanders recorded police who beat and repeatedly tasered Ordoñez. He was arrested while going to the store with friends.…
Alliance for Global Justice Statement on the Recent and Ongoing Massacres of Colombian Social Leaders and Ex-Insurgents The Alliance for Global Justice is extremely concerned with the recent increase of violence in Colombia. In our June 16, 2020 action, we asked you to sign a letter asking Members of the USA Congress to act immediately to…
Cuba Celebrates Fidel U.S.-Cuba-Canada Collaboration in Fighting COVID-19 Join and support us in this call for medical collaboration with Cuba. Cuban medical expertise can and will save lives. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez stated: “Humanity faces a common challenge. This pandemic does not respect borders or ideologies. It threatens the lives of all, and it…
August 4, 2020, marked a historic moment in the history of Colombia, a country with more than 50 years of civil war. On that day, Colombia’s Supreme Court ordered the detention of its current Senator and ex-President, Alvaro Uribe Velez. In 2016, the oldest armed insurgency of the hemisphere, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia…
By Natalia Schuurman, Eduardo Garcia, Victoria Cervantes, and James Patrick Jordan The Alliance for Global Justice has just updated its list of U.S. Political Prisoners*. Let’s review a few basic facts and statistics, and consider some of the implications. The number of Political Prisoners in the United States has risen by 12.28% since the beginning…
by James Patrick Jordan (This piece was written for the Irish website LookLeft) On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while calling out, “I can’t breathe!” The next day, a popular uprising swept the country. It is impossible to give numbers and statistics to fully communicate the extent of…
Click here for a list of US Political Prisoners who are Prisoners of Empire We are republishing the following alert being circulated by MLToday. Dear friends: Simon Trinidad is peace negotiator for the FARC, currently serving a life sentence at the super max federal prison in Florence, Colorado under conditions where he can receive no mail or…
AfGJ statement regarding the assault of federal armed forces on US cities En Español On Thursday, July 16, during a massive demonstration in defense of Black lives and to demand an end to police violence in Portland, the brutality of U.S. security forces escalated rampantly: a group of unidentified federal agents used unmarked vehicles to…
Declaración de la Alianza por la Justicia Global sobre la ocupación de nuestras ciudades por fuerzas armadas federales In English El jueves 16 de julio, durante una manifestación masiva en defensa de las vidas de la comunidad negra en los EE.UU. y para exigir el fin de la violencia policial en Portland, Oregón, la brutalidad…
