Police, Repression, and Popular Movements in Colombia: Webinar this Thursday, September 15, 8p ET, 7pm CT and Colombia, 6p MT, and 5p PT. Featuring presentations by Colombian Congressperson Alirio Uribe, Juan Esteban Martínez (Campaña Libertad Ya), Camille Landry (AFGJ), Alberto Bejarano (Trabajo y Justicia—Grupo Jurídico), and Stephanie Ortiz (Fundación Lazos de Dignidad). Moderated by Nina…
Open Individual and Organizational letter on Colombia: Demand the implementation of points 1 & 4 of the Peace Accords and an end to political violence! Join the hundreds of Colombians and allies who are currently denouncing the emergency situation the country is going through. In Colombia at least one human rights defender, social leader or…
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…
SEND AN EMAIL TO COLOMBIAN AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF THE MINGA AND NATIONAL STRIKE! DEMAND THAT THEIR RIGHTS BE RESPECTED TO DEMONSTRATE FREE OF REPRESSION BY THE PUBLIC FORCES! The people of Colombia are coming together yet again to demand an end to the right-wing political violence and repression that is ravaging the country. Under…
Thank you to everyone who sent emails and/or called authorities to stop the impending raid of Ciudad Bolívar! A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED! Last Wednesday, September 23, 2020, we sent out an urgent alert about an imminent raid to drive out an encampment of indigenous and rural people from Ciudad Bolívar. a locality of…
****ALERT NO LONGER ACTIVE. The raid was averted by the mobilization of the people with the support of international solidarity**** URGENT! ACT NOW TO STOP THE RAID OF DISPLACED COLOMBIANS IN CIUDAD BOLIVAR! ¡URGENTE! ¡ACTÚE AHORA PARA DETENER EL ASALTO CONTRA DESPLAZADOS DE COLOMBIA EN CIUDAD BOLIVAR! HAPPENING RIGHT NOW! ¡PASANDO AHORA MISMO! Please send…
Colombia masses continued mobilizing to demand justice for Javier Ordoñez, killed by the police on September 9, 2020, and to stop police brutal repression of the ensuing uprising. On September 11, 2020, the AFGJ responded requesting our partners and supporters to voice outrage over the murder of Javier Ordoñez, and the brutal repression of protesters…
By Eunice Escobar and James Patrick Jordan Colombia’s national Human Rights Day began with the brutal pre-sunrise killing of Javier Ordoñez, a 46-year-old lawyer and taxi driver. In the early morning hours of September 9, 2020, bystanders recorded police who beat and repeatedly tasered Ordoñez. He was arrested while going to the store with friends.…
