The Alliance for Global Justice wants you to come too. We think you have knowledge and insights into your community and the Walls we need to Tear Down that will be valuable to the important strategy discussions that will take place Nov. 1-3 in Tucson, AZ. That’s why we are putting up at least $10,000…
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Drug war, TDTW, Uncategorized
Drug War and Drug War Prisoners People’s Power Assembly
Tear Down the Walls People’s Power Assembly, Scheduled for Saturday November 2 at 8:30-11:15 A.M. The US 40-year old “Drug War” has littered the landscape with corpses from Medellin, to Juarez, to Topeka, KS. In the US it has filled the prisons with nonviolent offenders while sentencing disparities and a racist criminal justice system insure…
Militarism, TDTW, Uncategorized
US Imperialism and Anti-Militarism People’s Power Assembly
Tear Down the Walls People’s Power Assembly, Scheduled for Sunday, November 3 at 8:30-11:15 A.M. Imperialism and the spread of capitalism were built on the shoulders and graves of the peoples of Africa and the Americas. Resistance to imperialism and its military enforcement arm is as old as imperialism itself. Residents of the United States…
Eco-Solidarity, TDTW, Uncategorized
Ecology and Empire People’s Power Assembly
Tear Down the Walls People’s Power Assembly, Scheduled for Saturday, November 2 at 4-6:45 P.M. Right now the planet is in the middle of the 6th Great Extinction period and it has been caused by humans, specifically the current dictators in the 1%. No amount of personal consumer choices is going to put the brakes…
TDTW, Uncategorized
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…
Audio-visual, Cultural solidarity & struggle, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Uncategorized
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…
Audio-visual, Bruce Wilkinson, TDTW, Uncategorized
Cascadia to Tear Down the Walls
We’re gathering together a cadre from the Cascadia region willing to journey three days by trains planes and automobiles to the great city of Tucson for the Tear Down the Walls National Gathering! Contact Bruce Wilkinson, [email protected] or 360-742-0864 to coordinate travel.
Anti-War, International solidarity - not Americas, Militarism, Uncategorized
NO WAR AGAINST SYRIA – Take Action!
Following are two action calls by the ANSWER and UNAC anti-war coalitions. From ANSWER: Send a letter to Congress: Vote NO on the Syria war resolution Mass Demonstration in D.C. – Sat., Sept. 7 Send an email letter right now to your elected representatives in Congress demanding that they vote NO on the Syria…
Audio-visual, Colombia, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism), Uncategorized
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…
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, Labor, Militarism, Uncategorized
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…