By Jill Clark-Gollub (This article was first published by the Orinoco Tribune on July 11, 2024.) [Rita Jill Clark-Gollub is active with the Maryland-based solidarity group Friends of Latin America and serves on the Coordinating Committee of the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. She organizes study tours to Nicaragua and has published articles on Nicaraguan issues in independent news…
By Jill Clark-Gollub (Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Americas Without Sanctions Lobbying Committee) AFGJ is a founding organization of the Americas Without Sanctions campaign, which since last July has been organizing tirelessly against the most recent round of sanctions legislation proposed for Nicaragua. Read the report-back from one of our campaign volunteers and lobbying coordinators below. On Thursday, May…
Over the past few months, AFGJ has devoted a great deal of time to our work opposing the Korea-US (KORUS) Free Trade Agreement (FTA). We believe that the following alert should help illustrate why such action is necessary. Thanks to FTAs, such as DR-CAFTA in this case, foreign investors are afforded “protections” that allow them…
