by Maya Hernández “A cop is a cop,” said James Baldwin in 1971. Undoubtedly, Baldwin was pointing to the way that U.S. law enforcement operates as a fraternized collective, wherein individual officers are not so much the problem as the embedded systemic policies that promote the use of violence. The actual objective of instituting the…
by James Patrick Jordan (originally published in LookLeft) Colombia and numbers have their own special relationship. On one of my first visits there, I consulted a map and estimated the place I wanted to go was only around 300 kilometers away. I did not consider the two Andean corridors we would cross, nor the big…
By Becca Mohally-Renk (Becca Mohally-Renk works with the Center for Development in Central America in Ciudad Sandino.) In early October I got a headache that wouldn’t go away…and it put me right inside the debate over Nicaragua’s response to COVID-19. Despite being the poorest country in the region, since the coronavirus pandemic hit Central America…
SEND AN EMAIL TO COLOMBIAN AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF THE MINGA AND NATIONAL STRIKE! DEMAND THAT THEIR RIGHTS BE RESPECTED TO DEMONSTRATE FREE OF REPRESSION BY THE PUBLIC FORCES! The people of Colombia are coming together yet again to demand an end to the right-wing political violence and repression that is ravaging the country. Under…
Español abajo From the Alliance for Global Justice: we condemn the attack against our colleague and friend Piedad Córdoba Ruiz, a Colombian lawyer and politician, on September 30 in the city of Bogotá. On Wednesday night, a group of eight armed men shot at the ex-senator’s vehicle. This attack, the constant threats against Piedad Córdoba…
Thank you to everyone who sent emails and/or called authorities to stop the impending raid of Ciudad Bolívar! A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED! Last Wednesday, September 23, 2020, we sent out an urgent alert about an imminent raid to drive out an encampment of indigenous and rural people from Ciudad Bolívar. a locality of…
****ALERT NO LONGER ACTIVE. The raid was averted by the mobilization of the people with the support of international solidarity**** URGENT! ACT NOW TO STOP THE RAID OF DISPLACED COLOMBIANS IN CIUDAD BOLIVAR! ¡URGENTE! ¡ACTÚE AHORA PARA DETENER EL ASALTO CONTRA DESPLAZADOS DE COLOMBIA EN CIUDAD BOLIVAR! HAPPENING RIGHT NOW! ¡PASANDO AHORA MISMO! Please send…
Español abajo THE ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE CONDEMNS THE VIOLENT ACTS AND MASSACRE THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY IN BUENOS AIRES, CAUCA. The Alliance for Social Justice forcefully express our outrage for the continued increase of violence in Colombia, particularly in the North region of the department of Cauca and concentrated in the Buenos Aires municipality. Yesterday, in…
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.…
