PRESENTE! We remember Chuck Kaufman

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

PRESENTE! We remember Chuck Kaufman, grass roots organizer and cofounder of Alliance for Global Justice, talking about his life's work, confronting US imperialism, neoliberalism and oppression in Latin America. 

https://afgj.org

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Thanks,

Fred

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Activist Radio interview on Nicaragua

 

September 9 

GUEST: Dr. Arnold Matlin. retired pediatrician and long time political activist in solidarity with the Nicaraguan Revolution since the 1980s, talks about the need to defend Sandinista gains from US imperial interventions.

NicaNotes: Hands off Nicaragua!
Hero of the Revolution
A Different Focus on Nicaragua
Two progressive viewpoints on current Nicaraguan reality

Magaret Flowers reports from Nicaragua

NICARAGUA: BUILDING THE GOOD LIFE (BUEN VIVIR) THROUGH POPULAR REVOLUTION

By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance.

March 28, 2021 | , NEWSLETTER 

US Sanctions Against Nicaragua

 

PEACE DELEGATION VISITS NICARAGUA

TO EXPLORE IMPACT OF US SANCTIONS

By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance.

March 15, 2021 | NEWSLETTER

A little history of Nicaragua from the late 1980s

JUGGLING DURING WARTIME IN NICARAGUA – JUGGLERS FOR PEACE

Photo: Graham Ellis

Days after the assassination of juggler and engineer Benjamin Linder by soldiers from Los Contra, more artists arrived in Nicaragua. It was the Jugglers For Peace group. They landed in Managua in 1987, ready to tour the cities that were hit by the war. 

The members of the group in that year were: Graham Ellis, Cort Peterson and Sean Minnock, from Hawaii; Sara Felder, from San Francisco, United States; Mark Deutschmann,from Nashville, United States; and Tim King, from Denmark. The idea was to make presentations to the children and perform shows in hospitals, schools, and public squares in Nicaragua. But Linder’s death caused the tour to be extended, with acts of commemoration.

GUEST: John Perry, writer living in Masaya, Nicaragua

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: John Perry, writer living in Masaya, Nicaragua whose articles have appeared in FAIR, The Guardian UK, and the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, talks about the threat of US imperialism directed at Nicaragua.

https://fair.org/home/progressive-media-promoted-a-false-story-of-conflict-beef-from-nicaragua/

Activist Radio is broadcast: Thursdays 5-6 pm from WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.FM. It will also be posted on the ClassWars website for the next ten weeks. Simply click on the date to hear it.

US works for regime change in Nicaragua

The US contracts out its regime change operation in Nicaragua 

John Perry From Masaya, Nicaragua

An extraordinary leaked document gives a glimpse of the breadth and complexity of the US government’s plan to interfere in Nicaragua’s internal affairs up to and after its presidential election in 2021.

The plan,[1] a 14-page extract from a much longer document, dates from March-April this year and sets the terms for a contract to be awarded by USAID (a “Request for Task Order Proposal”). It was revealed by reporter William Grigsby from Nicaragua’s independent Radio La Primerisima[2] and describes the task  of creating what the document calls “the environment for Nicaragua’s transition to democracy.” The aim is to achieve “an orderly transition” from the current government of Daniel Ortega to “a government committed to the rule of law, civil liberties, and a free civil society.” The contractor will work with the “democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG) sub-sectors” which in reality is an agglomeration of NGOs, think tanks, media organizations and so-called human rights bodies that depend on US funding and which – while claiming to be independent – are in practice an integral part of the opposition to the Ortega government.

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