For 27 years Rights Action has run educational, fact finding and human rights delegations as part of our north-south education and activism work. Many of these previous trips had direct visits with the mining resistance, community defense struggles documented in Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala.
Read more'Shithole countries': U.S. & Canada help produce forced migrancy from Honduras & Guatemala
“Our privileges are located on the same map as their suffering, and may
– in ways that we prefer not to imagine – be linked to their suffering.
As the wealth of some may imply the destitution of others.”
Susan Sontag
Canadian Companies Mining With The Genocidal Generals In Guatemala
“Corporate criminality and white collar crime are so omnipresent and part of the fabric of the elite sectors of Canadian society and economy that corporate tycoons, opinion-makers and “intellectual elites” openly advocate for and defend corporate criminality, helping hide it in plain sight.”
Read moreHuman Rights Violations Attributed to Military Forces in the Bajo Aguan Valley in Honduras
By Annie Bird, February 2013
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The Hudbay Minerals lawsuits: Clashing world views at the legal crossroads – ‘Avatar’ movie overlaps with a John Grisham novel
Recently, I had a front row seat to the colliding of world visions and harsh realities in the heart and center of Canada’s financial district in downtown Toronto. It was an intense and moving week.
Read moreCode Z59.5 – There Is Only One People Here
Code Z59.5 is a second self-published booklet, similar to The Never Ending - diary excerpts, observations and anecdotes related to work and struggles I was involved from the mid-1990s through to 2010.
Grahame Russell
Toronto, Canada
grahame@rightsaction.org
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Unearthing The Truth: Exhuming a Decade of Terror in Guatemala
“Even if 30 forensic teams worked for 30 years, that still wouldn’t be enough resources or time to exhume all the mass graves in Guatemala.” (Fernando Moscoso)
Thirty years after the exhumation process began in Guatemala, Rights Action is pleased to re-publish this report written by Grahame Russell, with Sarah Key & Ann Butwell, and published in 1996 by EPICA (Ecumenical Program on Central America & Caribbean) and CHRLA (Center for Human Rights Legal Action). Unearthing The Truth covers the first years of work of the FAFG (Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala), then called the EAFG (Forensic Anthropology Team of Guatemala) – work that is on-going today.
Read moreThe Never Ending
While 30 years have passed since I self-published The Never Ending, I believe many of the anecdotes and observations, quotes and stories remain pertinent.
Eduardo Galeano & Martha Gelhorn
Included are a post-card from Eduardo Galeano, and a moving letter from Martha Gelhorn. As I had learned from and been empowered by their caring and rabia (rage), analysis and writing, I had mailed them both copies –to Uruguay and Wales- in thanks.
Grahame Russell
Toronto, Canada
grahame@rightsaction.org
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Esta Es La Causa Justa
Testimonios de un pueblo ante la invasion de Estados Unidos a Panama
CODEHUCA, 1991
Treinta y dos años después de la mortal y destructiva invasión estadounidense en Panamá, que comenzó el 20 de diciembre de 1989, Rights Action comparte este informe que fue publicado por primera vez en 1991 por CODEHUCA (Comisión Centroamericana de Derechos Humanos) que, en ese momento, estaba basada en Costa Rica.
Este informe se basó en viajes de investigación posteriores a la invasión a Panamá (desde Costa Rica) realizados por Grahame Russell y otros colegas de CODEHUCA. Las visitas al país (enero, abri, julio de 1990) fueron organizadas y coordinadas por la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos de Panamá (CONADEHUPA).
El gobierno de Estados Unidos y los medios de comunicación norteamericanos llamaron a esta invasión ilegal la "Operación Causa Justa".
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This Is The Just Cause
Testimony of the Panamanian People Victims of the US Invasion
Thirty-two years after the deadly, destructive U.S. invasion of Panama, that began on December 20, 1989, Rights Action shares this report that was first published in 1991 by CODEHUCA (Central American Human Rights Commission) that, at the time, was based in Costa Rica.
This report was based on post-invasion investigatory trips to Panama (from Costa Rica) by Grahame Russell and other CODEHUCA colleagues. The in-country visits (January, April and July, 1990) were organized by and coordinated with the Comision Nacional de Derechos Humanos de Panama (CONADEHUPA).
The U.S. government and North American media called this illegal ‘regime change’ invasion “Operation Just Cause”.
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