In the last couple of months, the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) has taken its opposition to the Ortega government to new depths, openly calling for US sanctions against Nicaragua. At what point does a political party with Sandinista in its name, lose the right to use that name? But before answering that question, let’s first…
Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela Register Now! for AfGJ’s October Venezuela Webinar Featuring Dr George Ciccariello-Maher! When? Tuesday, October 25, 2016 8:00-9:00 PM ET / 5:00-6:00 PM PT This series of one-hour webinars on the last Tuesday of each month features scholars, Venezuela government officials, writers, solidarity activists and others with firsthand knowledge…
REPRESSION AGAINST COPINH RIGHT NOW! Alert from the Honduras Solidarity Network In this very moment (2pm CST October 20th, 2016), in response to the mass march led by the Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the Honduran militarized “Tigres” police force (supported by financing from the United States) has unleashed…
Kurdish American Karwan Abdul Kader was stopped and stripped by local law enforcement for no reason other than driving around in the wrong neighborhood. Watch stories like his in this powerful new documentary “Face The Truth: Racial Profiling Across America” showing the devastating impact of racial profiling on communities across our country, including the African…
Early one morning, Maria—then nine months pregnant—and her family were stopped by the police for no discernable reason. A special breakfast outing became a nightmare—and at one of the most intimate moments of her life, Maria found a team of immigration agents—not her husband—by her side. Maria’s chilling story is the centerpiece of “Checkpoint Nation?…
Watch this video to see racial profiling by Border Patrol far from the border. Jose Gonzalez was driving down Fort Street in Lincoln Park, MI when he noticed that Border Patrol started to stalk him and eventually pulled him over.
“The only thing the wall won’t stop are people.” Produced by the Sierra Club in 2010, Wild Versus Wall examines the ecological consequences of border militarization. It displays how prevention through deterrence efforts, like the border fence, have disrupted animal migration routes, feeding practices and mating traditions. Wildlife in the borderlands’ ecosystems struggle to survive…
I’ve been unable to write a substantive post this week due to Alliance for Global Justice’s involvement in the SOA Watch Border Convergence in Southern Arizona to protest border militarization and US migrant/refugee policies. Nicaraguans are not among the Central Americans who now make up two-thirds of the refugees apprehended crossing the border in Arizona.…
One of the projects of the Sandinista government led by President Daniel Ortega, since he returned to the presidency in 2007, has been the sustained commitment to clean energy and to make access to that clean energy accessible to more people, especially in rural areas. Every week there are announcements of new projects, by the…
Update from James Jordan, National Co-coordinator of the Alliance for Global Justice in Colombia for the referendum vote on October 2ndby James Patrick Jordan (Follow the LIVE BLOG on October 2nd for on the ground reporting from AfGJ’s International Accompaniment delegation.) Today I feel like I am completing a circle–a circle of peace. This is…
