Sun, Feb 9, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Revolt of the Dispossessed against Neoliberalism in Latin America and the Caribbean With the Trump administration’s renewed emphasis on imposing the Monroe Doctrine to the Empire’s so-called “backyard,” the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean resist in a revolt of the dispossessed against neoliberalism. In … Read More
Task Force on the Americas Solidarity Statement January 11, 2020 The Task Force on the Americas (TFA), a 35-year old human rights organization, calls for no war with Iran and peace in the Middle East. We condemn the provocative actions of the US government in the murderous drone attack on Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani, Iraq’s … Read More
By Lucas Koerner on December 10, 2019 In our brave new age of hybrid warfare, corporate media play the role of ideological heavy artillery within the arsenal of Western imperialist powers. Day in and day out, “reputable” establishment outlets bombard progressive and/or anti-imperialist governments in the Global South with endless salvos of smears and libelous … Read More
US Empire vs. Latin America: A Year in Review 4:00-5:30 pm – Room 312 Howard Zinn Book Fair, December 8, 2019 City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus 1125 Valencia Street, San Francisco With the Trump administration’s renewed emphasis on imposing the Monroe Doctrine to the Empire’s so-called “backyard,” the peoples of Latin America and … Read More
By Roger Harris and Roger Stoll, Task Force Board members In 2018, National Security Advisor John Bolton invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, claiming all territory south of the Rio Grande as the US “backyard”; in 2019, the dispossessed revolted against this barbarism of imperialism and neoliberalism. The Andean Nations: US sanctions against Venezuela began in … Read More