Orlando Barrantes Orlando Barrantes ha dedicado su vida a mejorar las condiciones de los pobres y de los trabajadores en Costa Rica. Durante muchos años fue el Secretario General del Consejo Nacional de Trabajadores Bananeros (CONATRAB) y actualmente es líder del Movimiento de los Trabajadores y Campesinos (MTC). Ahora se enfrenta a una larga pena… Read more »
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Costa Rican union leader Orlando Barrantes faces 12-year prison term in political frame-up
Orlando Barrantes. Photo courtesy of Orlando Barrantes Orlando Barrantes has dedicated his life to improving the conditions of poor and working people in Costa Rica. For many years he was the General Secretary of the National Council of Banana Workers (CONATRAB) and is currently a leader of the Movement of Workers and Campesinos (MTC). Now… Read more »
Keep pressure up to free Nestora Salgado
As the third year of Nestora Salgado’s unjust imprisonment begins, her supporters continue to organize in Mexico, the USA and internationally for her release. Salgado, a U.S. citizen, was jailed in Mexico in 2013 on manufactured kidnapping charges. It was a political attack on the indigenous community police of Guerrero state. She headed the Olinalá… Read more »
Rasmea Odeh’s victorious appeal staves off deportation
Odeh, a Palestinian and community organizer, won a partial victory against the U.S. government’s attempt to deport her.
Visita a prisioneros políticos y sus sequidores en Guerrero, México
“Es un enorme apoyo tener la solidaridad de otros países”, me comentó Arturo Campos mientras nos encontrábamos dentro de la cárcel donde está detenido ilegalmente en Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero, México. El co-prisionero Ángel García añadió: “Enviamos un saludo a nuestros seguidores internacionales.” Campos y García son dirigentes encarcelados de la fuerza de policía… Read more »
A visit to political prisoners and families in Guerrero, Mexico
“It is enormous support to have solidarity from other countries.”
Freedom Socialist Letters to the Editor — April 2016
Political prisoner news, a salute to Heidi Durham, thanks for the article on Puerto Rico, and more.
Freedom Socialist editorial: Nestora Salgado to be free! La lucha continúa…
An organizer against drug lords and corrupt politicians is finally released. It’s a good start!
Stand up to Washington’s terror: Free Lynne Stewart!
Last November, New York-based civil rights and criminal defence attorney Lynne Stewart was sent to prison. Stewart had been convicted in 2005 of providing support to “terrorist” Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, whom the court had appointed her to defend. He had been found guilty a decade earlier of conspiring to attack the United Nations along… Read more »
Self-defence is no offence: Free the New Jersey Four!
August 16, 2006: Seven young women from New Jersey are attacked on a night out on the town in Greenwich Village, a traditionally safe place for young working class people and the queer community. They are minding their own business until they’re accosted by a man, Dwayne Buckle, who hurls insults at them and makes… Read more »
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