Juan Trujillo Limones, San Salvador Atenco. Han pasado dos años de la brutal represión policiaca a este poblado donde los vivos, los presos y los muertos conviven para liberar a unos y recordar a los otros. La impunidad que camina por los jurados también se percibe en forma de denuncia en la plaza principal. Las voces de Trinidad Ramírez y Flavio Sosa se escuchan como si se metieran al mundo de sus presos y sus muertos.

Mientras las mujeres atenquenses se han encargado de organizar el acto, activistas y simpatizantes del Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra (fpdt) y de la Otra Campaña se acompañan de Flavio Sosa, de la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (appo), y los padres de los cuatro estudiantes universitarios muertos en Ecuador por el bombardeo del ejército colombiano el primero de marzo. El evento es un encuentro de experiencias, dolores, movimientos y represiones. Los presos y los muertos son la constante. (more…)

On June 8th, a delegation from the United States comprised of activists and students arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as part of the US Durban Process 2009. The delegation was organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Community Center and Cidadao Global. This past Monday, the delegation met with local organizers that represented 18 Afro Brazilian women’s organization, and a media justice coalition.

The Baobab Institute (Instituto Baobab), which is a network of Afro Brazilian women’s organizations in anticipation of the delegation, called upon its network to share strategies, organizational struggles and success as well as personal stories that have impacted their participation in a racial justice movement in Brazil. (more…)

On Friday May 30th, over 23 organizations came together through a conference call to discuss the possible strategies that US civil society and NGO’s can take in order to secure inclusion in the moving Durban Process. Participants included members of the Human Rights Project of the Urban Justice Center, ACLU, Global Rights, Howard University, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, National Lawyers Guild, and the Native American Rights Fund, students and other activists. (more…)

Roberto Lovato, Janvieve Williams of US Human Rights Network and Maria Muentes of Families for Freedom discuss the health and treatment of those in U.S. detainment

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Panel of Survivors of solitary confinment and prison at Stopmax Conference, held at Philadelphia on May 30th thru June 1st with the idea of abolishing solitary confinment and death penalty in US. Many survivors, family members and activists from around the country shared an interactive and powerful experience to close down these prison industrial systems.
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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.