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Illegal, harmful US (& Canadian) sanctions against Venezuela (& Nicaragua)

Rights Action forwards this article about illegal and harmful U.S. sanctions against Venezuela.

Following the US lead, Canada has illegal sanctions against Venezuela. Both the US and Canada have illegal sanctions against Nicaragua also, …

… even as the US and Canada maintain full political, economic, military relations with corrupt, violent, military-backed, ‘open-for-global-business’ regimes in Honduras, Guatemala, Haiti and beyond.

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NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences of Canada, & other tourism invaders, criminalize 73-year old Garifuna woman defending her own land
Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences of Canada, & other tourism invaders, criminalize 73-year old Garifuna woman defending her own land

NJOI Trujillo Beach Residences of Canada, & other covetous tourism invaders, use the corrupt Honduran legal system to bring trumped up charges against Silvia Bonilla Flores, a 73-year old Garifuna woman, and 32 other community members defending their lands coveted by the imperialist tourism industry. (Photo: OFRANEH, June 16, 2021, Silvia Bonilla Flores)

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New Film: La Lucha Sigue (The Struggle Continues), about COPINH and OFRANEH-led Indigenous and Black resistance in Honduras
Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

New Film: La Lucha Sigue (The Struggle Continues), about COPINH and OFRANEH-led Indigenous and Black resistance in Honduras

As a criminal trial continues into its 6th week against David Castillo, paid coordinator of the hit squad that assassinated COPINH co-founder Berta Caceres on March 3, 2016, as OFRANEH and the SUNLA investigation team continue to demand justice for the forced disappearance of four Garifuna community defenders on July 18, 2020, La Lucha Sigue - directed by Sam Vinal (Mutual Aid Media) - has been released, documenting COPINH and OFRANEH-led Indigenous and Black resistance in Honduras.

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No more apologies. Former Residential School should be declared crime scenes Now is a time for justice
Grahame Russell Grahame Russell

No more apologies. Former Residential School should be declared crime scenes Now is a time for justice

Crimes committed against First Nations children in Canada’s Residential Schools system include physical abuse, torture, sexual abuse, criminal negligence resulting in death by malnutrition, disease and accident, desecration of the dead, and more.

The Residential Schools system itself should be considered a component of multi-generational government policies that amount to the crimes of ethnocide and genocide. These policies predate the formation of Canada in 1867, and were a fundamental part of European imperialism and colonialism.

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