Dear ROCLA Tomorrow marks two years since Berta Cáceres, the beloved Lenca Indigenous, feminist, and environmental leader and co-founder of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), was assassinated in her home in La...
SOA Watch Encuentro at the Border SOA Watch - an organization close to Witness for Peace’s heart and mission - will be having its second binational convergence on the U.S. - Mexico border this November 10th through 12th. Join them in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales,...
The Cuba Friendshipment truck will arrive this weekend and will pick up the materials that people have kindly donated. (Also, $2,000 worth of medicine purchased by ROCLA.) We had planned to have a major event as a sendoff for the truck, but then the date for the...
Rochester Committee on Latin America Presents “The 2014 Cuba Caravan - Celebrating 25 Years of Friendshipments and Cuban Progress” with Gail Walker Co-Director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace Wednesday, June 4, 2014, 7:00 PM Gail Walker is also an award-winning radio...
With each Friendshipment caravan, with each successive effort to challenge the US economic blockade of Cuba, the US government has been compelled to back down, to relent, to soften its enforcement of the blockade. As this chronology demonstrates, active nonviolence...
By: Arianne Walker In recent years, Honduras’ image to the world has been slandered by the term, “Murder Capital of the World,” due to its high volumes of deaths. Now that it is being associated with this term, the people of Honduras and the government have been...
Photo by Richard & Beth Myers, January 16,...
