WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
A Magnificent Women: 9/11 40th Anniversary by Paul Baker
September 11, 2013, is the 40th anniversary of the appalling Nixon/Kissinger/Pinochet coup in Chile, the first terrorist act on that fateful date. To honor Salvador Allende, Victor Jara and the thousands of other victims whose loved ones still cry out their names into the darkness (including those of the World Trade Center), here’s an article recognizing the vital and valiant role of Joan Jara, Victor’s wife, in the preservation and distribution of his music, and in the 40 long, long, years of the struggle for justice. She is one of the world’s great heroes. Please distribute the article as you can and wish. Thanks.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2013
Read the Summer 2013 issue of the Central America Report!
The “Central America Report” is published by the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign in the United Kingdom, an international sister organization of the Nicaragua Network. The NSC promotes two way solidarity that contributes to shifting the balance in Nicaragua in favour of those who are most impoverished. This is carried out through networking, organising events, disseminating information, campaigning activities, and coordinating study tours and delegations to Nicaragua and speaker tours in the UK.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 01, 2013
Work Trip to Nicaragua!
Dates: November 9-18, 2013
El Porvenir invites you to share the life and work of a Nicaraguan village!
Make a big difference in the lives of rural Nicaraguans and support self-help water and sanitation projects in rural communities!
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013
Reports on the Nicaragua Climate Change Delegation
Climate Change, Water, and Sustainability
June 10 - 21, 2013
On June 21, the members of the Nicaragua Network Climate Change delegation returned to the US. They had been in Nicaragua at a momentous time. On June 14, in the middle of their stay in Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega and Hong Kong businessman signed an agreement to begin feasibility studies on a shipping canal across Nicaragua and, if the studies are positive, build an estimated US$40 billion multifaceted project that will change Nicaragua for ever.
SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2013
Mega, mega, mega project! by Wales Solidarity Cymru
The Nicaragua Network has received a new article from the Wales Solidarity group on the inter-oceanic canal proposal which lays out the pros and cons of the project. Read on!
The world has suddenly woken up to a new story about Nicaragua – the inter-oceanic canal. Anyone who knows the history of Nicaragua will know that the country was in the frame to be the original crossing for the isthmus. That it eventually ended up in Panama had much to do with the geo-politics of the time – and what the United States decided was in its best interests. Throughout the following century, a second canal has been proposed, usually through Nicaragua, sometimes through Mexico. It also has undergone many different permutations – a canal, pure and simple; a canal to Lake Nicaragua, and then make use of a natural waterway; or a ‘dry canal’, Pacific and Atlantic ports connected by a railway. Or, indeed, various combinations of the three.
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2013
Dos Pueblos Plans Trip to Nicaragua!
New York-Tipitapa Sister City Project
Travel With Us To Tipitapa August 3-10, 2013
A few spaces still available! Call now!
Join us August 3-10, 2013 and learn how our communities advocate for improved health through education, potable water projects, workshops and cultural exchange. Dos Pueblos invites medical professionals and concerned citizens to experience how we’re supporting our community’s goals of a long-term, sustainable relationship and community-to-community partnerships that focus on healthcare, education, and community development. The itinerary will include meetings with medical professionals, families, elected officials, neighborhood organizing committees, and participation in workshops, and project sites.
MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
Book Review: A True History of the Anti-Contra War Campaign
by Chuck Kaufman
A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign
by Roger Peace
University of Massachusetts Press
American History / American Studies
302 pp., 1 map
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-932-4
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 05, 2013
Nicaragua Climate Change Delegation
This delegation has returned from Nicargua so watch this space for a report!
Climate Change, Water, and Sustainability
June 10 - 21, 2013
At the crossroads between North and South America, Nicaragua is astonishingly bio-diverse and is a regional leader in terms of energy from renewable resources. It is also on the frontline of climate change, suffering increasingly from desertification, flooding and crop devastation. And, this little country is also profoundly engaged in two projects that could re-shape the world.
FRIDAY, MARCH 08, 2013
Join efforts to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership!
The TPP: an agreement to benefit only large corporations and investors!
The Nicaragua Network was among the over 400 organizations, representing more than 15 million Americans, that co-signed a letter to Congress written by the Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC) expressing deep concerns about the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and opposition to the outdated "Fast Track" trade negotiating and approval process.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 06, 2013
On the death of Hugo Chavez
The Nicaragua Network notes with great sadness the death yesterday of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. We will miss his ebullient personality, his concern for the marginalized, his commitment to grassroots democracy, and his Bolivarian dream which expanded his vision beyond Venezuela to the rest of Latin America through ALBA. We note the World Bank statistics that under his government, the number of Venezuelans living in poverty was lowered from 62% in 2003 to 29% in 2009. We remember with fondness his speech at the United Nations during the Iraq war immediately after W. had spoken when he waved away the smell of sulfur and we remember his response to the needs of poor householders in Boston and other cold northern US cities with free heating oil.
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