“Here I sit painfully far from Greece, struggling to keep abreast of my compatriots’ tumultuous mobilization against the euro-zone’s neoliberal onslaught—and what lands on my desk? An inspiringly readable volume (215 pp) edited by Cliff DuRand and Steve Martinot: Recreating Democracy in A Globalized State (Clarity Press, 2012). Authored by the two American editors and…
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Chuck Kaufman, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Book Review: A True History of the Anti-Contra War Campaign
“The new book by Prof. Roger Peace, A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign, is an important contribution to recording a true history of the era, unsullied by US government and media lies and disinformation. As such, I would recommend it as reading for the Occupy Movement for its lessons on how a decentralized…
Nasim Chatha, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism, Uncategorized
USA’s Prison Industrial Complex Moves South of the Border
by Nasim Chatha The United States today uses an extensive and unprecedented form of imprisonment and policing as social control of its most marginalized communities. It is a unique culture of incarceration: no other country locks up their population to the same degree that we do, nor has so perfected imprisonment as a tool of…
Alerts, Drug war, Honduras, Indigenous rights & liberation (Abya Yala, Americas), News, Nicaragua, Peace, Anti-war & Liberation, Uncategorized
US participation in massacre of Moskito people!
On May 22 and 23 a delegation of human rights activists from the United States organized by Rights Action and Alliance for Global Justice visited the community of Ahuás in the Moskitia region of Honduras. The delegation witnessed an atmosphere of terror being generated amongst dire poverty in an area where the indigenous people are…
Bruce Wilkinson, Occupy Movement, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism), Uncategorized
Actions against Bank of America shareholders meeting a huge success
Charlotte, NC: Bank of America had its shareholders meeting at their headquarters and for the first time in a generation a major protest poured onto the streets in Charlotte, NC. There was repression and arrests leading to and during the protests, whose details, soon to be described, show a potential reaction for the Democratic National…
Alerts, Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Labor, Uncategorized
Threats Intensify against Colombia’s Largest Peasant Union
by James Jordan The US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement is set to go into effect on May 15, 2012, based on the approval given by President Obama regarding Colombia’s “compliance” with the Labor Action Plan. When Pres. Obama talks about improved labor rights in the war torn country, no one must be more baffled than the…
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Peace, Anti-war & Liberation, Uncategorized
Colombia’s Marcha Patriótica Calls for International Solidarity, Not Interference
by James Jordan, National Co-Coordinator for the Alliance for Global Justice The Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia turned out to be an embarrassing fiasco for Pres. Obama and the US delegation. It was mainly marked by the Secret Service prostitution scandal, denouncements of the War on Drugs at every turn, three heads of…
Bruce Wilkinson, Democracy, Occupy Movement, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism), Uncategorized
AfGJ and the Occupy Solidarity Social Forum–Reflection and Analysis
by Bruce Wilkinson, AfGJ Grassroots Development Coordinator “What is the nature of the process by which organizations, institutions and societies transform themselves?” Donald Schon contemplated the question of how we learn and adapt to change in an increasingly unstable society during the upheavals that frame the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now Occupy Wall Street,…
Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Midge Quandt, Uncategorized
Occupy Wall Street and Grassroots Movements in Latin America
by Midge Quandt (AFGJ Board Emeritus) The Occupy Wall Street movement that by December 2011 had spread to 900 cities world-wide led me to question my earlier allegiance to the idea that government/the state is the most effective avenue to radical social change. The Occupy movement also led me to revisit a related argument that…
Eco-solidarity, Militarism, Peace, Anti-war & Liberation, Uncategorized
Come to Chicago in May–Protest the NATO/G8 Summits
The Alliance for Global Justice wants to encourage all supporters of peace and justice to go to Chicago in May to protest the Summits of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Group of 8 (G8)–the eight governments with the world’s largest economies.
