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Interview with Haitian-Venezuelan lawyer and human rights defender Saint Louis XVI

Saint Louis XVI is the Human Rights Coordinator of the Haitian-Venezuelan organization National Front of Sister Nations and lawyer specializing in international human rights law and geopolitics. He discusses the root causes of Haiti’s instability today and its sustained resistance, from its overthrow of French imperial rule to its struggles against imperialist aggression and interventionism,…

Zone of Peace Teach-in: SOUTHCOM in Puerto Rico, Honduras and Colombia

This teach-in, hosted by the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington, DC, was organized by the Black Alliance for Peace – Haiti/Americas Team. Brianna (Diaspora Pa’lante Collective) on SOUTHCOM in PuertoRico Felix Molina (Honduran journalist and human rights defender) on SOUTHCOM in Honduras Samantha Wherry (Colombian peace activist) on SOUTHCOM in Colombia Join the #ZoneOfPeace Campaign: blackallianceforpeace.com/zoneofpeace

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…