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Justice for Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Seeks a Sali Piblik [Public Safety] Government in Haiti

August 18, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

by Yoav Elinevsky Lavalas (Creole for flood or avalanche), later also a political party called Fanmi Lavalas, emerged as a mass movement during the 1980s struggle to free Haiti from the brutal Duvalier dictatorships. In two landslide elections in 1990 and 2000, it carried Jean-Bertrand […]

Berta Cáceres in the Rio Blanco region of western Honduras in 2015. (coolloud, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Migration as Resistance

July 21, 2021 Aviva Chomsky

by Aviva Chomsky Originally published in TomDispatch.com with additional photos from Consortium News Earlier this month, a Honduran court found David Castillo, a U.S.-trained former Army intelligence officer and the head of an internationally financed hydroelectric company, guilty of the 2016 murder of celebrated Indigenous activist Berta […]

What’s Happening in Cuba?

July 20, 2021 Merri Ansara

By Merriam Ansara Will the current situation in Cuba lead to US-backed violence in Cuba? To answer that question, we first need an understanding of what’s happening. The violence isn’t new. In fact, there has been ongoing violence from the United States towards Cuba for […]

Activists hold signs in Northampton, MA, while protesting the US blockade on Cuba, June 23, 2021

Emergency Response to Economic and Political Crisis in Cuba

July 14, 2021 Cole Harrison

This week’s eruption of demonstrations in Cuba clearly represent the frustration of the Cuban people who have long suffered under the economic crisis brought on by the 60-year US blockade. The President, Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged this in a comprehensive nationally televised address on Sunday and […]

Northampton Activists Demand End to Cuba Blockade

June 23, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

Show Love to Cuba! Join the World in Saying End the US Blockade of Cuba! On Tuesday, June 22, 2021, in Northampton, Massachusetts, activists held a stand-out calling for an end to the US blockade of Cuba, one day before the UN general assembly will […]

End Repression of the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna People of Honduras Action Report

June 16, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

Resisting slavery, colonialism, and neoliberalism, defending their livelihood and the environment. End Repression of the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna People of Honduras! Where are the kidnapped Garifuna Leaders? A Rally was held on Friday, June 4, 2021, 2-3 PM, outside the office of congressman McGovern’s office on […]

Repression of Colombian Protests Remind Us: Police Violence is International

June 10, 2021 Drew Baldwin

by Drew Baldwin 45 dead. 187 missing. 25 sexually assaulted. 3,789 cases of police brutality in the span of a month. Millions protesting. The deaths of Marcelo Agredo Inchima, García Guerrero, Santiago Andrés Murillo Meneses, Brayan Fernando Niño Araque, and more were lost amongst limited […]