Uncategorized

If We Want to Save the World – An Internationalist Declaration

The same imperialism that has caused so much damage to the Global South today continues expanding and threatening the whole planet. Consequently, the struggle for climate justice has converted into a struggle for the liberation of all workers, peasants, indigenous and ecosystems. The struggle against Empire is a struggle to save life on Earth. (Originally…

Critical Support: What Does It Mean for Solidarity with Latin America?

Chuck Kaufman Originally Published on October 30th, 2015 by counterpunch Critical support for Left governments has been a hotly debated subject since long before I joined the US Latin America solidarity movement 28 years ago. The issue is particularly important today as the governments in countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our…

Water Policy and Socialism—Imagining the Possibilities

by James Jordan, from a September 26, 2015 presentation at the Salt of The Earth Labor College in Tucson, Arizona Michael Parenti has said that Capitalism takes living nature, transforms it into commodities and transforms commodities into dead capital. It takes life, soil, mineral, air and water, everything Mother Earth has to offer and transforms…

The Hope of A Broken Heart

An International Human Rights Observer’s reflectionBy Brian Peterson “I’ve seen the flame of hope among the hopeless. And that was truly the greatest heartbreak of all.” Bruce Cockburn The Last Night of the World Canadian musician and poet Bruce Cockburn reminds us that even in a world of moral ambiguity, there are those moments in…

John McCain’s “midnight riders” put borderlands at risk

John McCain’s “midnight riders” put borderlands at risk Click HERE to take action! by: James Jordan September 15 2015, Originally published in the Peoples World Ever heard of “Sneaky John and the Midnight Riders”? No, it’s not the name of a rock band, not some outlaw gang from the 1800s. What it refers to is…

Join AFGJ at the US Social Forum this June!

Register What is the US Social Forum? The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a
 conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the 
economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is politically and economically independent, and is led by impacted communities. We are…

Delegation Report: Colombia Peace Talks Advancing in Cuba

* This is a corrected version of an earlier publication that had misidentified Rodolfo Benitez, Ambassador for Cuba to the Colombia peace talks, and Enrique Santiago, legal advisor for the peace process. ¨Colombia Peace Talks Advancing in Cuba: Historic Opportunity to Negotiate a Lasting Peace¨ Cuba and the U.S. Move Toward Normalized Relations A report…