“We have to close these detention centers down”
ICE has complete authority to release anyone from immigration detention

Rights Action understands that some communities in the U.S. and Canada are suffering increased economic hardship and vulnerability due to COVID-19, and to the sanitary and isolation control measures. We support all efforts in the public and private sectors (with particular emphasis on exploited, marginalized communities) to implement rational preventative measures related to social isolation and the provision of emergency health and financial support.

I trust this message finds you-all healthy, sanitized and (somewhat) isolated socially. I hope you are living in communities taking appropriate measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and support people who have contracted it.

March 13, 2020, marks the 38th anniversary of the March 13, 1982, massacre of 177 Maya Achi children and women, at a spot known as ‘Pak-o-shom’, high in the mountains above Rio Negro, a village that had been nestled along the Chixoy river (also known as Rio Negro) for over 1000 years, before the violent, illegal construction the Chixoy hydro-electric dam (1975-1985).

El 2 marzo 2020, marca el 4 aniversario del asesinato de Berta Caceres y el atentado contra Gustavo Castro.

March 2, 2020 marks the 4th anniversary of the assassination of Berta Caceres and attempted assassination of Gustavo Castro, who was shot and left for dead that same night.

Canadian oil and gas interests and actions on Wet’suwet’en territory: Who is doing what, and why, trying to illegally (and possibly violently) force oil and gas pipelines across Wet’suwet’en territory?

Canadian government, and oil, gas and mining policies and actions in Venezuela: Why, and for whose benefit, is Canada working to illegally intervene in, and support U.S.-led efforts to overthrow the democratic government of Venezuela?

Rosa Elvira – speaking on behalf of the 11 Plaintiffs from Lote 8 – and Angelica Choc (widow of the murdered Adolfo Ich) sent statements responding to news of the ruling.

If the US invades our country and imposes corrupt, murderous dictatorships,
then we will migrate to their country and stop complaining.

“Mauricio Hernández Pineda is a former high-ranking Honduran police accused of protecting cocaine shipments along with Juan Antonio ‘Tony’ Hernández, the brother of President Juan Orlando Hernández. He was arrested in New York on Wednesday.”