Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
Independent cities run entirely by the business class? They’re in the making in Honduras, where President Porfirio Lobo Sosa has proposed the creation of autonomous, nondemocratic, privatized metropolises, or “Ayn-Randias,” as University of Missouri-Kansas City economist William Black calls them.
Libertarian Dream Cities: Coming to Honduras Read More »
How a nation uses its power to deny a person’s freedom has always been a critical measure of authoritarian rule. Massive incarceration based on race, ethnic origin or nationality, political beliefs, class, sexual orientation, age or other inherent characteristics is a form of tyranny.
Private Prison Companies Profit Off Laws that Define Immigrants as Criminals Read More »
Aspects of the bill that unions had advocated for; the right to a secret ballot and increasing transparency of union finances, were stripped in the lower house and not included in the Senate version.
Mexican Senate Passes Labor Reform Bill, Weakening Worker Rights Read More »
Faccuse’s Dinant Corporation has been involved in land rights disputes with campesinos since 1994 when, through violence and fraud, it began acquiring land titles to African palm cooperatives. Since January 2010, Dinant security forces have been accused of participation in death squad activities and are likely responsible for the murder of approximately 80 campesino land rights activists and bystanders.
Is the World Bank Funding Death Squads in Honduras? Read More »
According to SEC filings recently made public (see below), Wells Fargo has divested nearly 75% of their holdings in Geo Group, the nation’s second largest private prison company.
CORRECTION: Wells Fargo Dumps 33% of Geo Group Stock Read More »
Join us for a conversation on Tuesday, Oct 9th at 7pm @ 1820 NE 21st Ave
From Che to Castro – Cuba Today – Perspective of a Cuban Activist Read More »
“The company’s refusal to sit down and talk – the willingness they are demonstrating to turn a blind eye to the hunger strike is incomprehensible. Both show an utter disregard for human life and specifically for the lives of workers on whose backs GM’s profits are made.”
GM Hunger Strike Rally Proves Occupy Fueling High Endurance Solidarity Machine Read More »
All of the countries of Latin America have been victims of its graduates. The SOA is a symbol of death, a symbol of terror. We have been gradually reducing our numbers of troops at the SOA, sending only five last year and none this year. We have now entered a new phase and we will NOT continue to send troops to the SOA. This is the least that we can do. We have been its victims.
VICTORY! Nicaragua Withdraws From The SOA Read More »
I’m not saying that the US is going to launch a new Contra War, but neither is it going to release its historic stranglehold on Nicaragua willingly.
Optimism and Hope in Nicaragua Read More »
