FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2014
Report from the Indigenous Rights Delegation!
A delegation from the Nicaragua Network, from March 16 to 25, visited the indigenous territories of the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) of Nicaragua to investigate the situation of the rights of the indigenous to their own land and resources and to health care and education. Under the current government, Nicaragua has advanced more than any other country in the recognition of the rights of the indigenous to their land. But, delegation members found that all of the positive work of the demarcation and titling under Law 445 is being threatened by the invasion of colonizers from other parts of Nicaragua and they reiterated the petition of the Indigenous Territorial Governments that the central government invest more resources in resolving this problem.
MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2014
A saint?
At this moment when Pope John Paul II has been declared a saint, it is useful to recall his all-out campaign against Liberation Theology in Latin America, a campaign which included his demand during his 1983 mass in Managua that Nicaraguan revolutionaries abandon their "unacceptable ideological commitments". At the time of John Paul's second visit to Nicaragua in 1996, Nicaragua Network Co-Coordinator Katherine Hoyt posted to the old reg.nicaragua on Peacenet a letter she had written 13 years before about the 1983 visit.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014
Say NO to the Trans-Pacific Partnership!
The Nicaragua Network urges you to join the fight to stop the TPP! The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, is a massive new trade and investment pact being pushed behind closed doors by the U.S. government at the behest of transnational corporations. U.S. negotiators have granted approximately 600 corporate lobbyists special “cleared advisor” status that enables them to review and comment on draft TPP texts, while flatly refusing to tell the public what they are proposing in our names.
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014
Read Nicaragua Now from the NSC!
"Nicaragua Now" is the new twice-yearly publication of the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign of the United Kingdom, a sister organization of the Nicaragua Network. It covers issues in Nicaragua and UK-Nicaragua solidarity.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Indigenous Rights Delegation to Nicaragua
March 15 - 25, 2014 -- Deadline for Applications is February 15!
This delegation will examine the state of indigenous rights in Nicaragua at a time when the government has demarcated indigenous land and granted communal titles to indigenous groups but also at a time when illegal loggers and land grabbers have invaded those lands, deforesting pristine, internationally recognized nature reserves and threatened the tranquility of the indigenous territories.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 03, 2014
The big winner in political, social, and economic reforms in 2013:
TOUCHDOWN DANIEL ORTEGA AND THE FSLN
By: Adolfo Pastran Arancibia (translated by Nicaragua Network staff)
Nicaragua lives an undeniable political reality. You can question, accuse, contradict and be in opposition to the government of Sandinista Daniel Ortega, even at any cost, but the real and tangible facts in the economic and social fields cannot be hidden.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2013
Tear Down the Walls National Gathering a success!
With over 400 people in attendence and 80 different workshops, the Tear Down the Walls National Gathering, held on Nov. 1 - 3 in Tucson, Arizona, was a success! The six people's power assemblies on Economic Justice, the Drug War, US Imperialism, Immigration, the Drug War, and the Prison-Industrial Complex proposed nationally coordinated days of action beginning in December and continuing through the New Year. Watch this space and the web page of the Alliance for Global Justice at www.AFGJ.org for more information!
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
WNU Supplement: Nicaragua Solidarity Back in the News
Weekly News Update on the Americas
Special Supplement, September 30, 2013
1. NYC Mayoral Frontrunner Was Nicaragua Activist: NY Times
2. The Right Reacts: Anti-Semitism and the “Marxist Playbook”
3. “Purely and Nobly American”: Times Writers
4. Solidarity Activists Deconstruct the Media Coverage
5. Who Were the Real Anti-Semites?
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
Media Alert: New York Post resurrects lies about Nicaraguan revolution!
Send letters to the editor!
Former Nicaragua solidarity activist Bill De Blasio is the frontrunner in the NYC mayoral election. The right-wing is pulling out all the old lies against Nicaragua from Reagan’s dirty war against the Sandinistas in order to tar De Blasio. While the Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice has no position for or against any candidate for political office in New York or anywhere else, we do have an interest in countering the current slanders against Nicaragua.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
Dance Troop Tour from Nicaragua!
Listen up New England!
Compas de Nicaragua Dance Tour Arrives This Week!
The dates are September 14 through October 5, 2013.
The tour brings five young women from "Women in Action" to the U.S. to perform traditional dances while educating audiences about Nicaragua’s culture and current living conditions.
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