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National Days of Prayer and Action Campaign Demands
Everyone deserves a place to call home.
In Colombia, over five million people have been driven off of their land by ongoing war. As leaders from across the Western Hemisphere gather in Colombia this year for the Summit of the Americas, we hope that our government will not ignore this major humanitarian crisis.
Join the National Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia
A Place to Call Home
Hand in Hand for Peace in Colombia
April 13-16, 2012
Be a voice for peace and justice in Colombia by joining thousands of activists, students and people of faith for the 7th Annual Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia.
Honduras Grows as Pentagon Hub in Central America
Analysis of U.S. Military Contracts in Latin America and Caribbean
By John Lindsay-Poland
U.S.-Funded Naval Base Sparks Controversy in the Dominican Republic
The U.S. Navy has recently begun transferring lands from the massive Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico, closed several years ago. But it seems the United States is beginning to make up for it in by constructing a base in the Dominican Republic. Local activists are pushing back.
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.
