More than 1,000 people, mostly peasants, marched through the streets of Savanette, near the Dominican border in Haiti’s Central Plateau region, on May 19 to protest the local government’s failure to issue proper identity papers. The march also commemorated the 88th anniversary of the assassination of Benoit Batraville (”Ti Benwa”), the commander of the KAKO peasant army, which fought against a 1915-1934 military occupation by the US. (more…)

Entrevista con el Profesor colombiano Gustavo Moncayo, conocido como el “Caminante de la Paz”. Su caminata en pro de la liberacion de l@s secustrad@s en Colombia y su gira por los Estados Unidos para intentar el intercambio humanitario de detenid@s entre el gobierno colombiano y las Farc.

Every third Saturday Radio Diaspora hosts Arts & Culture. Last week we featured live in the studio Vientos del Pueblo–music from the Andes. For more information www.vientosdelpueblo.com

Cada Tercer Sabado hacemos Arte y Cultura en Radio Diaspora. La semana pasada, Vientos del Pueblo tocaron en vivo en el studio. Para mas informacion visitan www.vientosdelpueblo.com

Reading from book They Take our Jobs!
Drawing on immigration history and left-wing economic analysis, historian and immigrants’ rights activist Chomsky (Profits of Extermination) aims to debunk the assumptions informing the current immigration debate in this well-researched if stiffly written account. She offers straightforward arguments against anti-immigrant perceptions such as the one in the book’s title: the “number of jobs is not finite, it is (more…)

As we are fully engaged in the Durban 2009 process, we are calling on our supporters for help. Even though the United States goverment is not going to be part of the process, it is clear that there is a direct connection between the lack of the participation of the U.S. in the Durban process, and the failure of U.S. authorities to address the continuation of racially discriminatory practices in this country.

Therefor our work as civil society and of NGO’s must continue. Paola Arce is a young Internally Displaced Person from Colombia that is now residing as an outstanding student at Benedict, South Carolina.

Please help Paola and other students and youth activists attend the Preparatory Meeting in Brasilia, Brazil this coming June. We need to raise $5,000.00 (Five Thousand Dollars), to ensure that youths participate in this important process. Please donate now, we need your support.

 Justeen Mancha’s dream of becoming a psychologist was born of the tropical heat and exploitation that have shaped farmworker life around Reidsville, Georgia, for centuries. The wiry, freckle-faced 17-year-old high school junior has toiled in drought-dry onion fields to help her mother, Maria Christina Martinez. But early one September morning in 2006, Mancha’s dream was abruptly deferred. (more…)

Desde Washington DC, Radio Diáspora habla con tres activistas Colombianas: Clara Gomez, directora de la Escuela Nacional de Labor, Aura Rodriguez economista y directora de la organización Cactus y Virgelina Chara, un representante de Asomujer y Trabajo una organización que trabaja con familias desplazadas.

On April 19, the Latin American and Caribbean Community Center (LACCC) and Cidadao Global (CG) hosted its first in a series of US-based Durban Process meetings as part of the World Conference Against Racism Review (WCAR 2009). The World Conference against Racism (WCAR) are international events organized by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in order to struggle against racism ideologies and behaviors. Three conferences have been held so far, in 1978, 1983 and 2001. The next conference is planned for 2009. The meeting brought together more than 35 individuals representing a number of US-based organizations that participated in regional WCAR Preparatory Committees and/or in the World Conference Against Racism in 2001, as well as groups, students and activists with a demonstrated interest in the Durban 2009 process. The meeting was a side event organized during the National Human Rights Conference 2008 that took place in Chicago, Illinois. (more…)

La Red de organizaciones Afrovenezolanas dentro de sus principios fundacionales destaca el tema de la soberania territorial e intelectual de los pueblos ante cualquier amenaza externa a sus intereses que la definen como nacion, eso signifca oponerse a cualquier forma de colonialismo, neocolonialismo e intervencionismo en complicidad con las burguesias locales que operan en cada pais de neustro continente como franquicias imperiales. Hoy las Americas y el Caribe, estan viviendo momentos estelares en el, estan en proceso de redefinición de sus modelos democraticos, economicos que las van conduciendo a buscar los caminos mas adecuados para conquistar la mayor felicidad posible. La Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela, como colectivo historico, esta marcando la pauta desde 1999, cuando fue aprobada nuestra carta magna, que destaca nuestra soberania y el resguardo de nuestros recursos energeticos y naturales para el pueblo venezolano.

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