At the crossroads between North and South America, Nicaragua is astonishingly bio-diverse and is a regional leader in terms of energy from renewable resources. It is also on the frontline of climate change, suffering increasingly from desertification, flooding and crop devastation. And, this little country is also profoundly engaged in two projects that could re-shape…
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Chuck Kaufman, Eco-Solidarity, Honduras, Uncategorized
Book Review – Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras
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…
Democracy, Uncategorized, Venezuela
National Day of Action to support the Bolivarian Revolution
No U.S. Intervention in Venezuela Elections TELL WASHINGTON & THE VENEZUELAN ELITE: NO TO DESTABILIZATION EFFORTS IN VENEZUELA, A day of Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution: Thursday APRIL 11, 2013 After the tragic death of our beloved president Chavez, the imperialist nations of the world are preparing to attack the Bolivarian Revolution. Venezuela is getting…
News, Uncategorized, Venezuela
AFGJ mourns the loss of President Hugo Chavez
The Alliance for Global Justice mourns with the family of President Hugo Chavez Frias and people of Venezuela his untimely death. But in this time of tears we also celebrate the life of this great man whose passion for justice and equality marshaled the progressive movements in his country to eradicate illiteracy, abolish extreme poverty,…
Uncategorized, Venezuela
Grieving the loss of Hugo Chavez.
AFGJ would like to express the deepest condolences for the family of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan people, the people of Latin America, the people of the global south and the oppressed of the world who knew him as a beacon of light. The light that he shown is with us all as we create a…
Colombia, Eco-Solidarity, Labor, Political prisoners, Uncategorized
UPDATE: Colombian Unionist Maribel Oviedo Set Free Without Charges!
Maribel Oviedo (in center) leads delegates from the Alliance for Global Justice and the National Lawyers Guild to visit peasant farmers in the village of Maracaibo in Tolima, Colombia. We have received news from the Colombian human rights group, Lazos de Dignidad, that peasant union leader Maribel Oviedo has been released without charges. Maribel had…
Border, International solidarity - not Americas, Uncategorized
Palestine and Arizona
by Chelli Stanley Sometimes “the story” can seem so complicated, especially to the misinformed American public. Often colonial contexts are made to look like impenetrable conundrums too hard to fix. However, these so-called complications are actually cover-ups meant to hide vast networks of crimes and human rights abuses. Writing about the similarities between Palestine and…
Delegations & tours, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Nicaragua Delegation: Climate Change, Water, and Sustainability
June 10 – 21, 2013, $950 (excluding airfare) Wonderfully rich in natural resources, Nicaragua has one of the world’s great stores of ‘sweet’ water. However it is also one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. In recent decades it has seen its rivers begin to dry up and its farmers to lose crops…
Cultural solidarity & struggle, TDTW, Uncategorized
Call for Art Submissions For Tear Down the Wall
CALL FOR ART SUBMISSIONS to advance social movements! Artists are called to bear heart. Social movements call on the heart to move souls. “Tear Down the Walls” is building a week of actions that join social movements together across the nation in uniting local actions for global justice and a national gathering bringing thousands of…
Delegations & tours, Democracy, Honduras, Uncategorized
Internationalists Accompany Honduras Elections: Historic Birth of the Libre Party
By Borland (text) and Roger Harris (photos) (If you are interested in being an election monitor for Honduras’ Nov. 24 general election, send an email to Chuck Kaufman at chuck(at)AFGJ.org.) Arriving at noon on November 16, 2012, in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, I joined a delegation of 35 internationalists and was immediately immersed in…
