InterReligious Task Force on Central America

IRTF Issues

Anti-Militarism
Anti-Militarism
- Democratization
  Democratization
  Support people’s pro-democratic, nonviolent movements, and people's sovereignty and democracy over military and coup-imposed governments.
- US Foreign Military Influence
  US Foreign Military Influence
  End US training of Latin American military and other security forces in Central America and Colombia and on US soil, and the militarization of humanitarian, economic, environmental and other foreign assistance to Central America & Colombia. Working to eliminate long-term US military presence in Central America and Colombia, including personnel and bases.
  - History of the SOA
Environmental Human Rights
Environmental Human Rights
- Degradation and Mega Projects
  Degradation and Mega Projects
  To stand with communities (particularly indigenous and Afro-descendant) as they resist exploitation to preserve their lands and resources from profiteering.
- Resistance Solidarity
  Resistance Solidarity
  To stand in solidarity with oppressed communities.
Exploited Labor
Exploited Labor
- Global Economic Policy
  Global Economic Policy
  Stopping the "race to the bottom" and demanding trade policies that protect workers, consumers and the environment.
  - Free Trade Agreements
- Worker Rights
  Worker Rights
  Standing with workers across the hemisphere to promote just wages and safe working conditions, calling for consumer actions, corporate responsiblity and government policies to end the exploitation of labor
Fair Trade
Fair Trade
- Support for Cooperatives
  Support for Cooperatives
  Supporting cooperatively-owned business so that people work for themselves and do not have to be dependent on the dominant economic model. Instead, self-determination, gender equality, transparency, and democratic organization are the norm.
- Consumer Advocacy
  Consumer Advocacy
  Educating and organizing consumers to get fair trade and other sweatshop-free products into their schools, congregations, grocery stores and other local businesses.
- Fair Trade Principles
  Fair Trade Principles
  Fair Trade is a system of exchange that honors producers, communities, consumers, and the environment. It is a model for the global economy rooted in people-to-people connections, justice, and sustainability.
LGBTQ Rights
LGBTQ Rights
Supporting LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) people and their families in Central America and Colombia to gain broader inclusion in all sectors of their societies and end repression against LGBTQ persons.
Afro-Descendant & Indigenous
Afro-Descendant & Indigenous
- Cultural Preservation
  Cultural Preservation
  To help support communities, particularly indigenous and Afro-descendant, who organize their lives according to traditional values and ways, by challenging repression and supporting economic ventures.
- Racial Justice
  Racial Justice
  Promoting dignity and equality for Afro-descendant and native peoples across the hemisphere and resisting state-sponsored violence and institutionalized racism.

Event

Guatemala Solidarity - NISGUA is looking for committed activists

June 1, 2019

(rolling deadline until positions are filled)

NISGUA is looking for committed activists who are passionate about transnational movements for justice and self-determination to join our team! Opportunities are available in both our Oakland and Guatemala City offices.

Event

Join us for Equal Exchange 2019 Summit

May 24, 2019

Join our community for two days of workshops, celebration, and planning as we advance our vision of building a better food system, together.

Keynote Speaker: Santiago Paz López
Santiago is the export manager at NorAndino Cooperative (formerly Cepicafe) located in the Piura region of Peru. What started out as a small group of coffee growers in the mountains of Peru has grown into a cooperative that produces far more than just coffee today.

Join the movement to reclaim the food system –to make it better for farmers, consumers, and the earth.

PRESENTERS

Event

Food Action Forums - Make Our Food System Fair!

May 22, 2019 to May 23, 2019

Equal Exchange Food Action Forums. We need you to help us take back our food system away from corporate control. Equal Exchange, the first fair trade coffee company in the US, is coming to visit with two forums this week: May 22-23. Join us!

News Article

Honduran transgender woman freed after a year in US detention

April 19, 2019

Nicole García Aguilar was granted asylum in October but was held another seven months while ICE appealed

RRN Letter

RRN Letter: Honduras 4/12/2019

April 12, 2019

Recent attack on human rights workers and their families in Honduras. This case is especially shameless as a 90-year-old woman was one of the victims. Injured in the attack by police was the mother of Hedme Castro, director of Asociación para una Ciudadanía Participativa (ACI PARTICIPA) in Choluteca, where residents have been protesting government policies that open up land to extractive activities, such as mining.

RRN Letter

RRN Letter: Colombia 4/11/2019

April 11, 2019

Assassinations of two more social leaders: musician Edwin Andrés Grisales Galvis and indigenous leader Ebel Yonda Ramos.

RRN Letter

RRN Letter: Colombia - 03/26/19

March 26, 2019

Argemiro López Pertuz, a rural organizer, was murdered on March 17. Armed men broke into his home in the village of La Guayacana in Tumaco municipality, Nariño Department, attacked him and his family, injuring his partner and his mother. Argemiro López Pertuz promoted the implementation of the Comprehensive National Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS), which was established under the peace agreement 2016. More than 30 people working on crop substitution programs have been murdered in this area since November 2016. Meanwhile, coca production is increasing.

RRN Letter

RRN Letter: Colombia - 03/25/19

March 25, 2019

Paramilitaries forcibly displaced hundreds of families from their homes in Córdoba Department and abducted three local peasant farmers from their homes in San José de Uré. On March 22 two of those abducted, Jhon Jeimer González Vasquez and Julio César Taborda Caro, were found dead. Both men had been tortured. Authorities also expect to find the body of the third man. All had enrolled in land restitution programs for victims of forced displacement.

RRN Letter

RRN Letter: Honduras 03/24/19

March 24, 2019

While walking home on March 27, journalist Leonardo Gabriel Hernández was shot six times and killed. On his TV program El Pueblo Habla (The People Speak), he discussed social issues and local politics and was known to speak out critically against the municipal government in Nacaome, Valle Dept.

RRN Letter

RRN Letter: El Salvador 3/23/2019

March 23, 2019

attacks against LGBTI rights leaders Andrea Ayala and Barbara Romero of ESMULES (Salvadoran Lesbian Women’s Space for Diversity) in San Salvador.

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