En el acostumbrado foro permanente mensual “Dialogando con Venezuela, que se realiza en la sede de la Embajada de la Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela en Luanda, República de Angola, abordaron el tema como se entiende la solidaridad desde el sur? motivado por  la realización de la Cumbre Africa-Suramerica que se realizará en septiembre proximó en la ciudad de Caracas, bajo la coordinacion de la cancilleria venezolana, a través del Viceministerio para Africa. Jesus Garcia, Ministro Consejero y encargado de negocios, de la embajada venezolan, explicó como desde hace diez años en Venezuela, con el Gobierno bolivariano como se ha puesto en práctica la solidaridad con los pueblos retomando los ejemplos de los movimientos de  los africanos y sus descendientes en las luchas [click to continue…]

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Extended Campaign to Win Relief for Haiti Finally Pays Off

WASHINGTON – Jubilee USA Network today welcomed the news that Haiti reached “completion point” in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program yesterday.

This step means that $1.2 billion in external debt owed by the impoverished island nation to bilateral and multilateral lenders including the IMF, World Bank, and US government has been cancelled. The Boards of the World Bank and IMF met yesterday to formally approve Haiti’s debt stock cancellation under HIPC and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative. [click to continue…]

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Military Ousts Honduran President Zelaya by Uprising Radio

June 29, 2009

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Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military coup and taken to Costa Rica early Sunday morning. His ouster took place on the day of a planned referendum on constitutional reforms which was opposed by the Honduran Congress. Roberto Micheletti, the head of the Congressional Assembly and second-in-line to the [...]

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Obama Must Strongly and Unequivocally Condemn the Coup in Honduras

June 29, 2009

By Roberto Lovato
Viewed from a distance, the streets of Honduras look, smell and sound like those of Iran: Expressions of popular anger — burning vehicles, large marches and calls for justice in a non-English language — aimed at a constitutional violation of the people’s will (the coup took place on the eve of a poll [...]

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Radio Diaspora: Stonewall Riots and Immigration

June 29, 2009

The Stonewall riots were manifestations of communal resistance against, against a violent police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. The Latin American and Caribbean Community Center stands in solidarity with communities that continue to resist [...]

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Immigration, Race and Gender: Reflections of Stonewall Riots by Janvieve Williams for Human Rights Atlanta

June 26, 2009

The Stonewall riots were manifestations of communal resistance against, against a violent police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. The Latin American and Caribbean Community Center stands in solidarity with communities that continue to resist [...]

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Obama Meets Uribe: Emergency rally for human rights in Colombia

June 26, 2009

Monday, June 29, 12:30pm
North side of the White House
(On the sidewalk to the south of Lafayette Park)
Contact: 202-403-1752
On Monday afternoon President Obama will meet for the first official time with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.  We intend to speak to Obama before Uribe does.  Please join us at the White House for an emergency rally at [...]

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Afro Colombian Communities denounce human rights violations.

June 26, 2009

THE PROCESS OF BLACK COMMUNITIES IN COLOMBIA PUBLICIZES THE FOLLOWING ACTS BEFORE THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY:
OCURRENCES:
1. The north of Cauca, specifically the municipalities of Suarez & Buenos Aires, is inhabited by a population that is 70% Afro-Colombian. These descendents of past slaves who now subsist from agriculture & mining are communities that have been [...]

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Alex Sanchez leader of Homies Unidos was arrested yesterday in California by the federal bureau of investigation.

June 25, 2009

Alex Sanchez leader of Homies Unidos was arrested yesterday in California by the federal bureau of investigation.
He was charged with questionable federal charges levied against him for of being a “shotcaller” for Mara Salvatrucha (MS) and conspiring to kill Walter Lacinos, an MS member shot and killed in El Salvador in 2006
The Latin American and [...]

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Summit of the Americas: Behind the Smiles and Handshakes

May 9, 2009

With all that happened at the Summit of the Americas, it was easy to miss a significant about-face by the Obama administration.
No, it wasn’t the administration’s supposedly softer stance toward Cuba. Nor was it Venezuela’s well-received offer (by Chávez-basher Hillary Clinton no less) to re-exchange ambassadors with Washington. Obama won’t read the Spanish edition of [...]

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