Please CLICK HERE to access a video of a Question and Answer session with former Colombian Senator Píedad Córdoba, Coordinator of Colombians for Peace. This session took place following a breakfast meeting with the Alliance for Global Justice / National Lawyers Guild delegation to Colombia in May and June, 2011.
Colombia
Anti-War, Colombia, Democracy, James Patrick Jordan, Uncategorized
International Solidarity Address to the National Conference for the Liberty of the Political Prisoners in Bogotá, Colombia
by James Jordan, Alliance for Global Justice My name is James Jordan and I work for the Alliance for Global Justice and am a member of the Coordinating Committee of the National Network in Solidarity with the Political Prisoners (of Colombia). There is nothing we want more for the Colombian people than an end to…
Action alerts, Colombia, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
One Last Stand Against Free Trade
The week we have all been fighting to avoid is finally upon us. Early this week, President Obama sent the three pending free trade bills to Congress for their approval. The free trade bills with Korea, Panama and Colombia are to be considered under “fast track” voting. Yesterday, the AFLCIO held a national call-in day…
Colombia, News, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism), Uncategorized
Colombia Offers Free Trade in Death-A Canadian Perspective
by Kevin Neish [Kevin is a Canadian human rights activist and unionist who went on an Alliance for Global Justice delegation to Colombia in 2009. This article is reprinted from Straight.Com – Vancouver’s Online News Source] The ink is barely dry on the Canada-Colombia free-trade deal, which Stephen Harper signed with great fanfare and promises…
Action alerts, Colombia, Labor, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
AFL-CIO Oct. 4th Call-In Day Against Free Trade Pacts
The following alert was originally drafted by the AFL-CIO. Please see the action component below. Your representative in Congress is considering three dangerous new free trade agreements, with Colombia, Korea and Panama. With more than 25 million Americans desperately searching for full-time jobs, the last thing our leaders should focus on is trade deals that…
Action alerts, Colombia, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
We Know Free Trade Kills Jobs
…and yet President Obama is still pushing forward the three pending free trade agreements. In his speech on jobs he cleverly slipped in a nod to the pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, saying: “Now it’s time to clear the way for a series of trade agreements that would make it…
Audio-visual, Colombia, Cultural solidarity & struggle, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism), Uncategorized
No FTA Poster
Created by Raquel Mogollón
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, News, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
False Claims Versus Hard Realities: The Pending Free Trade Agreement with Colombia
by James Jordan With a little more than a year till the 2012 elections the White House and Congressional leadership are anxious to pass pending Free Trade Agreements as soon as possible. They are hoping that their constituents won’t notice what’s going on and, if they do, that they’ll have forgotten by Election Day, 2012.
Colombia, Eco-solidarity, James Patrick Jordan, Labor, News
Interview with Eberto Diaz Montes, President of FENSUAGRO (United National Federation of Peasant Farmers and Farm Workers), Colombia
This interview was conducted with Eberto Díaz Montes by James Patrick Jordan, who also translated it. AFGJ: The National Encounter for the Land and for Peace has been a success in bringing together so many sectors of Colombian society to talk about peace and a political solution to the conflict. Do you believe that this…
Anti-War, Colombia, News
Colombia’s National Encounter for the Land and Peace: Is a Political Solution Possible?
by James Jordan The popular movement for a political solution in Colombia has taken a big step forward with the recent National Encounter for the Land and Peace. The August 12-15th gathering in Barrancabermeja was attended by more than 20,000 persons, bringing together peasant, indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities,