Theresa Cameranesi from San Francisco is on the national council of the School of the Americas Watch, a leader in the SOAW San Francisco local group, and is on the SOAW legislative working group and on the personnel committee. She is active in theBay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition. She works with the Mobilization for … Read More
Gerry Condon is a Vietnam-era veteran and war resister, and the past president of Veterans For Peace.
Carol Costa from Fairfax, California has been involved in MIRC (Marin Immigrant Rights Coalition) and works with the Canal Alliance to get the Marin County sheriff to act around Trust Act. She volunteers on a Spanish language hot line for the Community Initiative for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) and teaches a long-standing popular Spanish language … Read More
Carolina Dutton from San Francisco is active in the Chiapas Support Committee and maintains a residence in San Cristobal de las Casas in Mexico. She helped organize the recent urgent response network in the Bay Area for Indigenous in Mexico. She is active in the Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition. Carolina helped produce Why … Read More
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Roger Harris from Corte Madera, California, has a special interest in Venezuela and Cuba. He is on the central committee of the Peace and Freedom Party and is involved with the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library. He is also a Certified Wildlife Biologist and conservationist, leading whale watching trips for the Oceanic Society and birding for the … Read More
Linda Helland’s Latin America solidarity work started when she co-coordinated the Committee in Solidarity with Latin America during college. Linda first visited Cuba in 1993, lived in Havana from 1995 to 1999, and has been passionate about defending the gains of the Revolution ever since. She has worked to prioritize human needs above profit, defending the sovereignty of … Read More
Helen Jaccard has been an activist, organizer, author and photographer focusing on peace, nuclear abolition, and the environmental costs of war and oppression by the US government and companies since 2006. She has traveled to Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Venezuela and Mexico. She documents delegation activities with extensive notes and photos and writes articles about what … Read More
Daniel Kovalik served as in-house counsel at the United Steel Workers for 26 years at its headquarters in Pittsburgh. There, he served as counsel for Colombian plaintiffs against US corporations for alleged human and labor rights violations. He also taught international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of law for 12 years. Dan … Read More
Karl Kramer has been the campaign co-director of the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition since its founding in 1998. Before that, he was an organizer for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 101. He also has been the Parade Organizer of the Cesar Chavez Holiday Parade in San Francisco, a field organizer for the San Francisco Labor … Read More
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Marilyn Langlois is a volunteer community organizer and international solidarity activist based in Richmond, California. A co-founder of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, member of Haiti Action Committee, Board member of Haiti Emergency Relief Fund and Board member of Transcend International peace development environment network, she is retired from previous employment as a teacher, secretary, administrator, mediator and community advocate.
Alice Loaiza lived most of her adult life in Colombia where she was an activist for many years. Since living in the Bay Area she works with Marcha Patriotica Colombia, California Chapter, supporting the Peace Process as well as educating about the imperialist presence of the US in that country. She has presence in locally … Read More
A retired Nurse Practitioner, with a long time interest in the anti war movement and Latin American solidarity efforts, including during the 1980s working with CHRICA ( Committee for Health Rights in Central America) .Currently a member of the Immigration Rights and International Solidarity Committee of the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America, SEIU local … Read More
John Perry is originally from the UK but has lived in Nicaragua since 2003. He works remotely for a UK organisation, but also writes on Latin American political issues, and is published in the London Review of Books, Covert Action, LA Progressive, The Grayzone, Antiwar.com and elsewhere. He is a member of the Nicaragua Solidarity … Read More
John Philpot is a criminal defense attorney from Québec and an expert in International Criminal Law. He has thirty-eight years of experience as a lawyer, activist, and speaker in the international peace movement in Canada, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He is a member of the Board of Just Peace Advocates and … Read More
Karen Spring is a human rights activist and researcher that has lived and worked in Honduras and Central America for 13 years. She’s the host of the Honduras Now podcast hondurasnow.org and currently, the Honduras-based Coordinator for Rights Action.
Rick Sterling has been on the TFA board since 2012. He is also active with the Sovereignty Support Movement, Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center and Voices for Justice in Palestine. Rick’s articles on international issues are published at AntiWar.com, GlobalResearch, LA Progressive and other publications.
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Laura Wells lives in Oakland, California, and is a political activist in solidarity with America, and with the Green Party. She focuses especially on countries that represent the “threat of a good example” and that are targeted for interventions by the US, such as Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua. Laura has run as a Green candidate for … Read More