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Religious Communities to Challenge Gun Trafficking that Afflicts Mexico
Religious communities and leaders are working with border activists and organizers working to reduce gun violence to create a campaign to impede the illegal flow of assault weapons into northern Mexico. Since 2006, Mexico has suffered more than 50,000 murders associated with the drug war, most carried out with firearms.
Breaking the chains of violence in Mexico
Mexican human rights activists Juan Fraire Escobedo (Texas and Arizona events) and Saúl Reyes Salazar (California and Oregon events) will be speaking from Feb. 1–14, with powerful testimonies of the human costs of the drug war, militarism and gun trafficking.
Images from the Oakland Port Shutdown
Like thousands of others, my partner James and I went to the Port of Oakland Monday night to help shut it down in solidarity with ILWU Longview workers and to keep the Occupy movement alive and exercised. The port is located in a vast industrial area of the city, and getting to the gate requires walking or biking several miles.
Organizations Support Colombian Lawyers Collective and Inter-American Human Rights System
Twenty-five non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from across Canada, the United States and Mexico signed statements and letters of support on November 21 for the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers Collective (CCAJAR) and the Inter-American Human Rights System in response to troubling statements questionin
The American Intelligence Agency: WikiDAS
From Semana magazine, November 5, 2011
Detectives with the Colombian Department of Administrative Security, or DAS – the Colombian equivalent of the FBI and Secret Service - spent money donated by the US embassy and other foreign governments on parties, advance payments and family vacations.
Webinar: Using FOIA to Research U.S. Militarism
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State vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America's Empire
The good news is that critiques of U.S. militarism and the Pentagon’s expansionist role have become mainstream. Even former Defense Secretary Robert Gates had to acknowledge how the State Department was being muscled out of resources for implementing U.S. foreign policy. So a Wall Street Journal reporter like Stephen Glain also turns his attention to the United States as empire.
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Over the past five years, 50,000 people have been killed in drug-war related violence in Me
