Family members of the ‘Santa Marta 5’ file legal complaint over delay in final ruling
An update on the #SantaMarta5. After four postponements in delivering the final written ruling to confirm the acquittal of the water defenders, family members have filed an official complaint against the judges who provided only a verbal not-guilty verdict after trial five months ago.
The old order is dead. Let’s make a new, more just order.
Prime Minister Mark Carney pronounced the death of the old order. Drawing on all the alternatives proposed from the Global South and from Indigenous peoples, let’s make a new one — with room for everyone to thrive and grow.
Bruce McLeod: an inspiring ecumenical educator and communicator
Sharing some teachings from Bruce McLeod after his death this week. I knew him best when he was president of the Canadian Council of Churches in the early 90s. His words then feel prophetic today.
Canada must be #ElbowsUp in solidarity with Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland…
Please send a letter and sign a petition (both options here) to demand that Canada take urgent action with international partners to oppose U.S. threats to rights, sovereignty and peace in Venezuela and the Americas.
New intervention: U.S. seizes Venezuelan president, goes for the oil
The U.S. kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores today has nothing to do with debates over the quality of Venezuelan democracy or about drug-trafficking. It’s about the oil.
U.S. approach to Venezuela is “imperial madness”
“What we have to say is that we do not agree with interventions, especially military ones. That is enshrined in our country’s constitution, and that is what we will continue to defend,” said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum of repeated U.S. threats.
Take action for Cuba this Christmas
It will be a hard Christmas for many Cubans to celebrate this year in the face of shortages of power, food and medicines. Here’s a way to write to Canadian political leaders to ask for additional aid.
The Monroe Doctrine never went away
Beyond all that noise, the United States has a plan for domination of the Americas. Boat strikes and election interference are part of it, but its essence would isolate countries from each other. Resistance grows and is not futile.
The “feminist foreign policy” is dead. What next?
A decade of promises and a measure of good will were flushed away with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s declaration that his government does not have a feminist foreign policy. We need to be less dependent on politicians and more assertive in pressing for change.
Labour, development NGOs demand Canada condemn U.S. boat attacks in Caribbean
Canadians need to call on their government to speak out against illegal U.S. airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, say Common Frontiers and the Americas Policy Group.
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