Call for Action: Haiti – MINUSTAH OUT NOW!
From 1st June to 15 October, organized social movements in all continents will be mobilized at the International Solidarity Action Journey with Haiti. Among several demands, the Journey calls for end of MINUSTAH in the Caribbean country, guaranteeing the sovereignty of the Haitian people who, for decades, have been suffering from invasions of processes, whose consequences are felt to this day. Check the call for action: (more…)
Canadian and American teachers stand in solidarity with Mexican colleagues facing severe repression
Members of a coalition comprising teachers’ organizations from Canada, the United States, and Mexico spoke with one voice Sunday, denouncing the government of Mexico for atrocious rights violations against teachers. A strongly worded resolution was passed unanimously at the concluding plenary of the 12th biennial conference of the Tri-national Coalition in Defense of Public Education, held at UBC May 12–15, 2016. In it, delegates called on the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto to own up to the role of the state and police in the 2014 disappearances of 43 indigenous student teachers from the state of Guerrero. (more…)