by James Patrick Jordan For years the US government has given the wrong kind of aid to Colombia – billions of dollars for war and repression, and to secure profits for global capitalism. It has made Colombia both a dependent state and a crucially strategic military colony for US imperialism. What it has not…
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Colombia, Labor, Uncategorized
Stand with Colombia’s Peace Workers and the People They Defend!
Colombia’s National Protection Unit (UNP – Unidad de Protección Nacional) is consistently NOT providing the necessary vehicles and other tools for the protection of human rights defenders, social leaders, and signers of the peace accords. This has resulted in unnecessary casualties such as the death of Ronald Rojas, ex combatant, peace accord signer, and a…
Action alerts, Anti-War, End sanctions on Venezuela, Human Rights School, Nicaragua, Respect for Democracy, Uncategorized
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…
Delegations & tours, Eco-Solidarity, Programs, Respect for Democracy, Uncategorized
Delegation announcement: Food Sovereignty, Popular Democracy & Indigenous Resistance in Bolivia
Join us for an anti-colonial Thanksgiving celebration of Indigenous self-determination Learn about the Plurinational State of Bolivia’s movements for sovereignty over food, land and water; gain an understanding of the spiritual and philosophical foundations of Pachamama; and discover the traditional ecological knowledge of the country’s peoples. Meet with farmers, community leaders, government officials and others…
Anti-War, Countries, Human Rights School, Nicaragua, Press release, Programs, Respect for Democracy, Uncategorized, United States
Press release (June 20, 2023): Alliance for Global Justice demands justice for Nicaragua and an end to the United States’ ongoing human rights abuses
Press release For immediate release: June 20, 2023 Contact: Camille Landry Alliance for Global Justice (202) 540-8336, ext. 508 [email protected] Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) demands justice for Nicaragua and an end to the United States’ ongoing human rights abuses AFGJ calls attention to the United States’ crimes against humanity This June, The International People’s…
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Respect for Democracy, Uncategorized
Might the US Support a Coup in Colombia?
Might the US Support a Coup in Colombia? The Colombian oligarchy wants to remove Gustavo Petro from the presidency. Are US actors helping? The following article is an important update about the threats in Colombia of a coup against the administration of President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Fráncia Márquez. Petro and Márquez came to…
Colombia, Human Rights School, James Patrick Jordan, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Tanya Nuñez, Uncategorized
Colombian Human Rights Defenders Union, SINDHEP, Expelled From The Bargaining Table
By Tanya Nuñez and James Patrick Jordan In a new act of anti-union abuse by Carlos Camargo, Colombia’s right wing Ombudsman, the Human Rights Defenders Union, SINDHEP, was recently expelled from the collective bargaining table on reasons that have no legal basis. This arbitrary and illegal act comes days after SINDHEP made a public denouncement…
Haiti, James Patrick Jordan, Prison Imperialism, Uncategorized
Haiti, Hunger, and US Prison Imperialism
By James Patrick Jordan Three prisoners in the US-built prison in Petit-Goâve, Haiti starved to death between August 23 and September 27, 2022. The website Haiti Libre reports, “…one of the deceased prisoners was from Léogâne imprisoned for having stolen an electric wire and… [another] from the 5th communal section of Petit-Goâve, was serving…
Colombia, Labor, Uncategorized
Assaults on Living Memory Labor Union Threaten Colombia’s Peace
Diego Mejía, signer of Colombia’s peace accord, and member of the Memoria Viva (Living Memory) union’s national council, was assassinated by two hit men on April 9, 2023, in Puerto Asis, Putumayo, Colombia. On April 13, union member Jhon Jader Ferreyra was wounded in another attack in Ibague in the Department of Tolima. Both these…
Anti-War, Drug war, Mexico, Uncategorized
Repudiation of Interventionist Initiative of the United States
A statement by the People’s Human Rights Observatory (Observatorio de los Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos) concerning threats of US intervention in Mexico. The PHRO is an international coalition of which AFGJ is a founding member. English: From the People’s Human Rights Observatory (Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos), we reject the initiative pushed…