Action Alerts

One Wall and Too Many Deaths

by Brian Erickson on December 09, 2009

Director of The 800 Mile Wall, John Carlos Frey, is asking all the right questions of our U.S.-Mexico border.

"Do we need to spend billions of dollars on fencing and technology? Does it work? Should the thousands of migrant lives lost on U.S. soil be recognized and taken into account? Should we do anything about the deaths? Is there a solution?"

If you're wondering when the opportunity will arise to demand that our legislators begin asking these questions, the time is now!

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Honduran Elections

by Lisa Haugaard and Vanessa Kritzer on November 30, 2009

Elections took place yesterday, November 29th, in Honduras with National Party leader Porfirio Lobo declared the winner. But elections carried out

under a state of emergency
with visible military and police presence
by a government installed by a military coup
with a significant civil society movement opposed to the coup calling for abstention
and with the deposed President still deposed and holed up in the center of the capital city in the Brazilian Embassy

are no cause for celebration.

If you haven't sent a message to our U.S. government about Honduras, click here now!

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Congress Will Send Our Message to State

by Lisa Haugaard and Vanessa Kritzer on November 10, 2009

We're hitting the ground running with Human Rights NOW and we need you to join us in a taking an urgent action today.

Our mission? Convince as many congressional representatives as possible before December 7th to sign on to a letter calling for real change in U.S. policy towards Colombia, so that it can be sent out ASAP to Secretary of State Clinton.

Click here to find out how!

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What I Learned In Honduras

by Lisa Haugaard on November 25, 2009

I have just returned from Honduras, and I can tell you, there is no possible way that there are the basic conditions for free and fair elections on November 29th.

Click here to tell Secretary of State Clinton to call these elections what they really are—far from free and fair!

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UN Condemns Obama's Cuba Policy

by Paulo Gusmao on October 28, 2009

Urge Obama to Take Decisive Action: Give the Nod to Congress and End the Travel Ban

The United Nations has voted (187-3) again to condemn the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. For the 18th consecutive year, the General Assembly passed this resolution with nearly universal support. Such an unpopular policy surely deserves a second look; it deserves to be stopped. And the time is NOW.

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Urgent Action Needed To Change Colombia Policy

by Lisa Haugaard and Vanessa Kritzer on November 18, 2009

Have you called yet?

Last week, we told you about the letter on Colombia that's circulating in Congress and what you can do to help. We've had a good start, but we still need more action from grassroots activists like you and the people in your community.

Please take two minutes right now to give your representative a call.

Here's How:

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My Perspective

by Vanessa Kritzer on October 21, 2009

As a newcomer to the LAWG team, and inside the beltway advocacy, I have been surprised over the last few months to learn what it actually takes to achieve the change we want. Before I started, I assumed that if we could simply bring the facts about real people who are suffering as a result of U.S. policies in countries like Mexico and Colombia, we could make it happen. But it turns out that there's so much more that goes on in DC every day than I could have anticipated.