Press release For immediate release: June 20, 2023 Contact: Camille Landry Alliance for Global Justice (202) 540-8336, ext. 508 [email protected] Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) demands justice for Nicaragua and an end to the United States’ ongoing human rights abuses AFGJ calls attention to the United States’ crimes against humanity This June, The International People’s…
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Colombia, Police militarization, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism, Respect for Democracy
MEDIA ADVISORY: Colombia 2022 Runoff Election Coverage
Don’t miss out! Updates, interviews, and analysis from Colombia & Latin America on Runoff Election Day: June 19, 3:30-7:30 pm CT Click here to join our election coverage Alliance for Global Justice together with Anticonquista, Centro Pazifico, People’s Human Rights Observatory, Orinoco Tribune, Lazos de Dignidad and Convo Couch announces an afternoon livestream broadcast on Sunday, June 19,…
Human Rights in the U.S. Reports, Human Rights School, Indigenous rights & liberation (Abya Yala, Americas), Natalia Burdyńska-Schuurman, Nicole Chase, Police militarization, Solidarity with North American liberation, Special reports, publications & broadcasts
From “Black Lives Matter” to “housing is a human right”: a spotlight on structural genocide in the U.S.
By Nicole Chase (intern) and Natalia Burdyńska Schuurman (Program Coordinator) June of 2020 marked a defining moment in history when the police murder of George Floyd spurred a massive popular uprising for racial justice against the backdrop of a devastating public health and economic crisis. Millions mobilized in solidarity with Black and Brown communities losing…
Anti-War, Border, James Patrick Jordan, Militarism, Police militarization, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism, Solidarity with North American liberation, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism), Uncategorized
Security, Empire and Life in the USA
by James Patrick Jordan Originally published in Catalán by the magazine Revistat, and in English, by CovertAction Quarterly The word “security” conjures a couple of distinctly different and conflicting images. One is of human beings living in safe, viable, and sustainable communities, where individuals can freely develop their full potential, not hindered by threat and…
Anti-racism, Militarism, Police militarization, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism, Solidarity with North American liberation, Uncategorized
A Year in Review: Racism, Repression and Fightback in the U.S. [EBOOK]
One year ago, George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police. What followed was the eruption of the largest uprising against racism and state violence in modern U.S. history. Against the backdrop of a devastating pandemic, economic recession and climate crisis disproportionately impacting Black, Indigenous and Latine people of color in the United States, an eruption…
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Solidarity with the People of Haiti! End US and UN support of Haitian dictator Jovenel Moïse!
On Sunday, Haitians to the streets in massive numbers as they did the week before after U.S.-backed dictator Jovenel Moïse refused to leave office on February 7, the end of his four-year term established by an illegal election. One of the main calls from the mobilizations of hundreds of thousands in the streets of Port-au-Prince…
Colombia, Maya Hernández, Police militarization, Uncategorized
Colombia’s ESMAD and the History of U.S. Policing
by Maya Hernández “A cop is a cop,” said James Baldwin in 1971. Undoubtedly, Baldwin was pointing to the way that U.S. law enforcement operates as a fraternized collective, wherein individual officers are not so much the problem as the embedded systemic policies that promote the use of violence. The actual objective of instituting the…
Anti-racism, Anti-War, Cultural solidarity & struggle, Democracy, Militarism, News, Police militarization, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism, Solidarity with North American liberation
The struggle continues: Racism, repression, and fightback in the USA
Now more than ever, we need to debunk the myth that human rights are an issue in other countries, but not here in the U.S. A re-surged movement against police brutality, white supremacy, and state violence come to be known as the largest sustained mobilization in modern U.S. history continues to reignite public discourse around…