July 1, 2021 is another good day for truth-telling about land theft, genocide and crimes against humanity, inside and beyond Canada’s borders. And “Stealing Children To Steal The Land”, a comprehensive report from The Intercept and hosted by Naomi Klein, should perhaps be required listening/reading for all Canadians.
Read moreHarvest of Empire: Bitter anniversaries in Guatemala & Honduras Commemorating U.S. & Canadian supported military coups, 1954 & 2009 →
June 27 and 28 are bitter dates in Guatemalan and Honduran history, when the U.S. and Canada (and other actors in the “international community”) supported violent regime change interventions that, for decades now, have had devastating consequences for the majority populations of both countries.
Read moreFeminist Encampment ¡Berta Lives! demands justice against US & Canadian-backed Honduran regime for assassination of Berta Caceres →
Below, a Common Dreams article
Rights Action, via the Honduras Solidarity Network, is helping fund the Feminist Encampment ¡Berta Lives!, as work continues to expose the deeply complicit responsibility of the US and Canada in Honduras’ human rights nightmare situation since the 2009 military coup ousted Honduras’ last democratically elected government.
Read moreIllegal, 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.
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)
Read morePublic letter denouncing repressive “NGO law” in Guatemala Seeking organizational sign-ons →
Rights Action forwards this information from NISGUA
Read moreNo consultation process without mining suspension first! Legal actions underway to suspend Solway Investment Group’s illegal mining operation in Guatemala →
Solway Investment Group, a Swiss company, and its Guatemalan subsidiary CGN (Compania Guatemalteca de Niquel), continue to illegally operate the “Fenix” mine in Mayan Q’eqchi’ territories of eastern Guatemala, despite a court ordered suspension order.
Read moreJustice in Guatemala for “Death Squad dossier” war crimes trial →
U.S. & Canada must insist to their “democratic allie”, the military-backed, Guatemalan government, that justice be done in the “Death Squad dossier” war crimes trial
Read moreJustice for Berta Caceres - Sign-on letters in US & Canada →
Justice for assassination of Berta Caceres by US & Canadian-backed regime in Honduras
Please read & sign letters
Acciones legales para lograr la suspensión definitiva de la operación minera “Fenix” en El Estor, Guatemala →
Solway Investment Group, una compañía Suisa, y la CGN (Compania Guatemalteca de Niquel), siguen operando ilegalmente la mina Fenix, a pesar de una orden de suspensión. El estado Guatemalteco no esta actuando para obligar a Solway/CGN a parar sus operaciones mineras.
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