Nicaragua Network Alert — June 30, 2014 This publication may be reproduced in whole or in part. Please credit the Nicaragua Network. Click here to see revealing Border Patrol map of the origins of migrant children detainees A supporter sent us a letter to the editor she had written to counter all the right-wing letters…
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Colombia, Drug war, Español, Honduras, Immigration, James Patrick Jordan, News, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism, Uncategorized
Imperio de Cárceles: cómo los Estados Unidos está extendiendo el encarcelamiento en masa alrededor del mundo
por James Jordan, Alianza por la Justicia Global Traducción por Adrian Boutureira Sansberro In English Resumen… Este artículo explica cómo los Estados Unidos están exportando su modelo de encarcelamiento en masa y control social y político hacia al menos 25 países. Este ” imperialismo penitenciario” tiene sus raíces en el Programa de Mejoramiento del Sistema Penitenciario Colombiano…
Colombia, Drug war, Honduras, Immigration, James Patrick Jordan, News, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism, Uncategorized
Empire of Prisons: How the United States is Spreading Mass Incarceration Around the World
by James Jordan, Alliance for Global Justice Originally published in Counterpunch Click Here for an audio file of a presentation by James Jordan on KBOO radio from the Law and Disorder Conference at Portland State University in May, 2014. Versión en español Summary…. This article explains how the United States is exporting its model of…
Colombia, Eco-Solidarity, James Patrick Jordan, Labor, Militarism, News, Political prisoners, Uncategorized
Four Agricultural Workers and Unionists Murdered in Nariño, Colombia
by James Jordan, Alliance for Global Justice Send an Email to Colombian Authorities to Demand Justice and Safety for the People of Sucumbíos Send and Email to the White House and State Department to Demand the US End Its Support for War and Repression in Colombia [Scroll to the end of this article to read…
Immigration, Political prisoners, Uncategorized
Help end the mass immigrant prosecutions of Operation Streamline
Operation Streamline has got to go! Below is an action from our friends with End Operation Streamline. You might recall AFGJ’s Chuck Kaufman put his life and liberty on the line blockading a bus of detainees sent to that kangaroo court last year. We need your support in putting a wrench in the cogs of…
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URGENT ACTION: Congress on Verge of Passing Sanctions on Venezuela! Right-wing and Washington Post Lobbying.
The House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee is considering a bill for sanctions against Venezuela, HR 4229, entitled the Venezuelan Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act. The Senate also has a similar bill in committee. The House bill is sponsored by far-right Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Right-wing Venezuelans from Miami and other parts of the country are…
Alba countries, Democracy, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Midge Quandt, Uncategorized
REVIEW: The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American
The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American By Emir Sader, Verso, 2011, 169 pp. Review by Midge Quandt The title of The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left, by Brazilian writer, Emir Sader, is taken from Marx to refer to the revolutionary impulse, which burrows quietly underground until it comes to the…
Action alerts, Colombia, Labor, Political prisoners, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism), Uncategorized
Colombian Unionists Endure Mass Arrests, Bombings in April
TAKE ACTION! The Alliance for Global Justice is very concerned about the April 17, 2014 detention of 17 agricultural workers and union members from the municipality of Leiva in the Colombian department of Nariño. This is one of a series of high profile arrests and mass detentions of union and peasant leaders that have occurred…
Delegations & tours, Honduras, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Two Exciting Summer Delegations to Central America!
Honduras: Human Rights Accompaniment – June 22-July 1, 2014 On the fifth anniversary of the coup that overthrew democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, the nonviolent National Front for Popular Resistance, farmers, students, labor unionists, LGBT activists, and regular people request our accompaniment in the face of violence and repression. This delegation will join with a…
Democracy, Militarism, News, Uncategorized, Venezuela
Quick points regarding the protests in Venezuela
Sign and Share this Petition in Solidarity with the Venezuelan People! This is not a spontaneous wave of student protests, but a planned campaign organized by radical rightwing opposition leaders including Leopoldo Lopez and Maria Corina Machado. On January 23, Lopez and Machado launched their “La Salida” (“The Exit”) campaign with a press conference. As…