En inglés: http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/4601-international-election-monitors-in-honduras-do-they-ensure-clean-elections-or-whitewash-fraud Miles de millones de electrones ya se han gastado en escribir sobre las elecciones presidenciales de Honduras del 24 de noviembre de 2013. Como observador electoral y líder de una delegación de 55 monitores organizada por la Alianza por la Justicia Global (Alliance for Global Justice-AfGJ) y el Marin Task Force on the…
International Election Monitors in Honduras: Do They Ensure Clean Elections or Whitewash Fraud? http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/4601-international-election-monitors-in-honduras-do-they-ensure-clean-elections-or-whitewash-fraud Written by Chuck Kaufman Early on the morning of Sunday, December 1, people started gathering at the National Pedagogic University in Tegucigalpa with homemade signs to speak out against stealing of the presidential elections. This one reads “Stop the Fraud.” Photo…
Q & A with AfGJ National Co-Coordinator Chuck Kaufman Q: Why should my organization spend our most limited resource – time — to organize and participate in the Nov. 1-3 Tear Down the Walls National Gathering? Chuck: You shouldn’t unless you incorporate a plan for how TDTW National Gathering will grow your organization and build…
Originally posted on Upside Down World. Written by Chuck Kaufman, Monday, 25 February 2013 13:06 In June 2011 when Tanya Kerssen and I led a delegation of human rights accompaniers to the Aguan Valley of Honduras, we did not know that we would, ourselves, play a cameo role in the life and death struggle for…
By Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice On October 10, a US Border Patrol agent shot through the border fence into an urban neighborhood in the Mexican city of Nogales and shot to death a 16 year-old Mexican citizen.
by Chuck Kaufman With a victory margin of almost 10% amounting to a lead of 1.3 million votes, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was re-elected to a third term yesterday; a term that will expire in 2019. The margin of Chavez’ victory, coupled with challenger Henrique Capriles’ acknowledgment of defeat, appeared to mute claims of fraud…
by Chuck Kaufman ( http://www.nicanet.org/?p=1159) ) [Photo: Delegation meets with Esteli’s Deputy Mayor Rosa Argentina.]
“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…
By Chuck Kaufman On Jan. 9, 2012 an Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) delegation of US and Canadians visited the farming community of Rigores, Honduras in the fertile Aguan Valley near the country’s Caribbean Coast. It was a far different visit than was experienced by a previous AfGJ delegation just six months earlier. On that…
By Chuck Kaufman (AFGJ National Co-Coordinator) The Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) and its predecessor and founder, the Nicaragua Network, have been well-known grassroots organizations within the Central and Latin America solidarity movement and the anti-corporate globalization movement for over three decades. For probably 25 years we’ve used our 501(c)(3) non-profit tax status to fiscally…
