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Economic Justice People’s Power Assembly

Tear Down the Walls People’s Power Assembly, Scheduled for Saturday, November 2 at 8:30 to 11:15 A.M. In the last thirty years, worker productivity in the United States has soared while worker wages have stagnated or decreased with the profits going to the owners and stockholders.  In the US, in 2010, the top 20% of…

A MAGNIFICENT WOMAN. 9/11 40th anniversary

9/11 is the 40th anniversary of the appalling Nixon/Kissinger/Pinochet coup in Chile, the first terrorist act on that fateful date. To honor Salvador Allende, Victor Jara and the thousands of other victims whose loved ones still cry out their names into the darkness (including those of the World Trade Center), here’s an article recognizing the…

Colombian Unionists Speak Out about Repression in Tolima

This six minute video is a production of the Alliance for Global Justice and Pan Left.  It features leaders of the Peasant Workers Association of Tolima (Astracatol), all of whom have since been arrested as a part of the recent government crackdown on Colombia’s labor, agrarian and popular movements.  Many AfGJ supporters will recognize the…

Brutal Repression of National Strike in Colombia-Santos Declares Militarization of Bogotá

by James Jordan SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM TO SEE WHAT ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE! Colombian Armed Forces have brutally attacked members of the “Paro Agrario” National Farmers and Popular Strike, with at least four to five persons dead and reports of hundreds wounded. Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos, dismissing strikers as vandals, has ordered…

Hubert “Huber” Ballesteros Detained by Colombian Authorities – Major Blow to Labor and Peasant Movements / USW Letter in Support of Ballesteros

YOUR ACTION NEEDED! We cannot stress enough how important this case is, and how vital is your solidarity. We have been asked, especially, that people make phone calls to the Colombian Embassy.  The Alliance for Global Justice is urging you to take TWO actions. 1)  Call the Colombian Embassy at: Tel: 202-387-8338 Fax: 202-232 8643…

Colombian Political Prisoners: Victory in Doña Juana plus Important Updates

  We have several important updates regarding Colombian political prisoner struggles.  We are especially pleased to announce that there has been a victory at the Doña Juana penitentiary in La Dorada, Caldas, where 1,300 prisoners had engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience, including more than 176 hunger strikers, 18 who had sewn their lips shut.  INPEC…

Interview with Guillermo Cano, detained leader of Astracatol

Interview with Guillermo Cano, detained leader of Astracatol “They are engaged in persecution against our peasant labor organization” by José Antonio Gutiérrez D., in Rebelión June 13, 2013 TAKE ACTION on behalf of Don Guillermo! Click Here for more info on Don Guillermo’s case We recently spoke with comrade Guillermo Antonio Cano Borja, a veteran…

“I can’t even write to the judges” – Ricardo Palmera/Simón Trinidad, Colombian Prisoner of War in US Supermax Prison

by Hernán Camacho, for the Colombian newspaper, Voz (La Verdad del Pueblo) translated by James Patrick Jordan It was December, 2004 when President Álvaro Uribe authorized the extradition of the man born in the Valle del Cacique de Upar, capital of the Department of Cesar, cradle of Vallenato music, who was known in that city…