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…
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Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Prison Imperialism, Uncategorized
“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…
Immigration, Uncategorized
Set the Dreamers Free! Let Them Stay Home!
The “Dreamers” are leaders of the undocumented youth movement. On July 22, 2013, Dreamers who had “self-deported” to Mexico crossed back into the US in Caps and Gowns to demand that they be allowed to come home to graduate. This action and the solidarity protest were organized by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, one of…
Colombia, News, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism, Uncategorized
Third Week of Hunger Strike by Colombia Prisoners-Show Your Solidarity
Click HERE to send an email to Colombian authorities in support of the prisoners’ demands! Prisoners in the Doña Juana Penitentiary in Colombia are halfway through the third week of a hunger strike to demand better conditions. Located in La Dorada, Caldas, the prison is one of the new jails built with US funding and…
Border, Immigration, Indigenous rights & liberation (Abya Yala, Americas), James Patrick Jordan, Uncategorized
Immigration Reform and Borderland Ecology
by James Jordan 7/17/13 When the Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act was being voted on in 1988, a rider was added at the last minute by Sen. John McCain. For the first time in history, a federal law was passed that exempted a project from all cultural and environmental laws. What was the project? It was the…
Audio-visual, Colombia, Drug war, Eco-Solidarity, Español, Uncategorized
Stop the Repression in Catatumbo, Colombia: AfGJ Solidarity Statement
(Versión español sigue el inglés) Following is a statement on attacks by the Colombian Armed Forces against unarmed protesting farmers in the Catatumbo region. In attacks on June 22 and June 25, 2013, four persons have been killed, scores wounded and hundreds arrested. Also included below are links to two videos, one from the 22nd,…
Colombia, Eco-Solidarity, Labor, Uncategorized
Catatumbo peasants protest, confront violent state repression
By W. T. Whitney Jr., June 26, 2013 Photo by Telesur [NOTE: As this article is being published, we have just received word of yet another unprovoked attack in Catatumbo by the Colombian Armed Forces on Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Since Saturday, four peasant protesters have been killed in the region by the…
Action alerts, Democracy, Uncategorized
Send Pres. Obama a gift of George Orwell’s 1984
Click Here to order a copy of 1984 already addresed to Pres. Obama!
Border, Immigration, Uncategorized
Arizona Everywhere: Immigration Policing and the United States’ Expanding Borderlands
by: Geoffrey Boyce In 2010 the controversy over Arizona’s SB 1070 shined a light on the proliferation of policies that attack and criminalize undocumented immigrants (and their loved ones) in the United States. Yet in the debate surrounding the Arizona law there was strikingly little discussion of the ways that SB 1070 merely extended –…
Audio-visual, Colombia, Cultural solidarity & struggle, James Patrick Jordan, Political prisoners, Uncategorized
From Beyond the Walls: A Visit with the Women of Buen Pastor, Patio Six
Click HERE to watch Beyond the Walls: A Visit with the Women of Buen Pastor, Patio Six From Beyond the Walls is a play based on the testimonies, poetry, letters and collective statements of the political prisoners of Buen Pastor Womens Penitentiary in Bogotá, Colombia. The play was created and adapted by James Jordan based…
