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…
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Border, Immigration, Mexico, Militarism
Border Militarization and Empire: An Interview with Todd Miller
By Will Sarvis, 2018 Border Studies Intern Tucson-based journalist Todd Miller’s forthcoming book Empire of Borders will address border imperialism and the expansion of border apparatuses around the world. He has written for the New York Times, TomDispatch, The Nation, Guernica, Al Jazeera English, and NACLA Report on the Americas. This interview will be featured…
Anti-War, Colombia, Democracy, Militarism, News, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism, TDTW, Uncategorized
The Guantanamo of Colombia: Pressure Mounts to Shut Down Notorious US-Funded Prison
Originally published in Upside Down World Written by John Ocampo Friday, 29 January 2016 14:29 SIGN THE PETITION TO CLOSE LA TRAMACÚA, COLOMBIA’S US FUNDED TORTURE PRISON! The campaign to shut down Colombia’s infamous Establecimiento Penitenciario y Carcelario de Alta y Mediana Seguridad de Valledupar “La Tramacua” prison, located in the country’s sweltering Caribbean region and…
Anti-War, Audio-visual, Colombia, Delegations & tours, Democracy, Drug war, Eco-solidarity, James Patrick Jordan, Labor, News, Political prisoners, TDTW, Uncategorized
Message from Hubert Ballesteros, Colombian unionist and political prisoner, to North American labor and solidarity activists
Originally published in Fight Back! News Versión en español The following message is a response to a series of questions posed to Hubert Ballesteros by James Jordan of the Alliance for Global Justice. Ballesteros was arrested while negotiating for the National Agrarian Strike of 2013 and charged with Rebellion. He was also serving on the…
Anti-War, Colombia, Eco-solidarity, Humanitarian Aid, Immigration, James Patrick Jordan, Labor, Militarism, News, Peru, TDTW, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism), Uncategorized, Venezuela
Nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to say: How the broad climate movement has failed us
Graffiti from Havana, Cuba By James Jordan (Originally published in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal) January 13, 2016 – It has been a month since the UN climate summit in Paris, aka COP 21. One might expect the kind of ebb and flow we often see in popular movements. Interest in climate issues, the…
Action alerts, Democracy, Drug war, Eco-solidarity, Militarism, News, TDTW, Uncategorized
Climate Change and War–Two Faces, One Beast
We need YOU to ACT! Please sign our petition to End US Military and Border Patrol Environmental Exemptions! Please share this with others. You can also click here to print out a hard copy for distribution at pulic events. United Nations negotiators will be meeting in Paris this December to work out a strategy to…
Alba countries, Chuck Kaufman, Drug war, Indigenous rights & liberation (Abya Yala, Americas), Uncategorized
Bolivia: Complexity and Inspiration at the Roof of the World
Originally posted on the Council on Hemispheric Affairs’ website By: Chuck Kaufman, Alliance for Global Justice I returned in mid-October from an eleven day delegation to Bolivia, led by Senior COHA Analyst William Camacaro of the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle in New York City. I recognize that no one can parachute into a country they’ve…
Colombia, Militarism, Nasim Chatha, Political prisoners, Prison Imperialism
U.S.’s Prison Imperialism In The Outskirts of the Empire
by Nasim Chatha (Nasim served as an AfGJ intern during the Spring 2012 semester.) (9/5/12) The longstanding manifestation of the modern United States prison system is increasingly well-recognized: massive numbers of young men of color, victims of the decline of industry, are incarcerated, often deported,
Drug war, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Militarism, News
70 Groups Endorse LASC Conference – Register NOW!
The American University Washington, DC – April 8-10, 2011 Sponsored by: Latin America Solidarity Coalition in Conjunction with School of the Americas Watch Days of Action April 4-11, 2011 Help Build a Stronger Movement to End US Militarism and the Militarization of Relations with Latin America Register Now and Save Money Workshop Proposals Due March…