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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…