Action Alerts Archives

Migrantes Fueron Secuestrados con Violencia

| July 7, 2011

Translate to English Acción de Alerta El 24 de junio, más de 200 migrantes fueron secuestrados con violencia en Media Agua, Veracruz México. Dichos migrantes viajaban en la parte superior de un tren de carga que iba entre Oaxaca y …

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Kidnapped at Gun Point

| July 7, 2011

Translate to Spanish ACTION ALERT On June 24, over two hundred migrants were kidnapped at gun point in Media Agua, Veracruz Mexico. These migrants were traveling on top of a freight train between Oaxaca and Veracruz, when the train stopped …

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School of the Americas (Spanish)

| July 7, 2011

Acción de alerta Contacta a tus representantes y pídeles que soliciten del Presidente Barack Obama una Orden Ejecutiva para cerrar la Escuela de las Américas (School of the Americas). Antecedentes Fundada en 1946, La Escuela de las Américas SOA (por …

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School of the Americas

| July 7, 2011

Available in Spanish ACTION ALERT Contact your representative and ask them to request that President Obama issue an Executive Order closing the School of the Americas. BACKGROUND Founded in 1946, the School of the Americas (SOA) has trained more than …

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Deportees in Danger

| June 6, 2011

ACTION ALERT Demand that US deportations to Mexico do not endanger deportees. The US must immediately halt all deportation to the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Tamaulipas, where criminal elements wait to prey on the vulnerability of deportees. BACKGROUND …

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Immigration Reform

| May 5, 2011

ACTION ALERT Ask your members of Congress to implement comprehensive immigration reform BACKGROUND On May 10, 2011, President Barack Obama traveled to El Paso on his first presidential visit to the border. The President gave a speech addressing the government’s …

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Action Alert: Jeju Island Military Base

| March 3, 2011

Write the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea: ask him to halt the construction of a naval base on Jeju Island. BACKGROUND In May 2009, the South Korean government approved construction of a naval base on Jeju Island, a UNESCO …

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Lomas del Poleo land dispute

| February 2, 2011

Please use the link below and sign the petition to ask President Calderón of Mexico to intervene in the negotiations to settle a long-standing land dispute in the colonia of Lomas del Poleo, very near the border of Juarez and …

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Korea Free Trade Agreement

| February 2, 2011

ACTION ALERT Call your Member of Congress: ask them to Vote against Ratification of the South Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement BACKGROUND In South Korea, despite massive economic growth in the cities, a large income gap remains between the industrial …

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START Treaty

| December 12, 2010

ACTION ALERT Call your Senators: ask them to Vote for Ratification of the START treaty BACKGROUND Today the United States and Russia still hold about 90% of all nuclear weapons left from the Cold War. The START treaty would reduce …

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