Comercial contra la Discriminación Racial en Colombia  

One of many campaigns against racism in Colombia, this commercial emphasizes the culture and heritage of Afro Colombians.  Other campaigns can be viewed at the website for the Ministerio del Interior y de Justicia Dirección de Asuntos Para Comunidades Negras Fundación Cultural Colombia Negra.

Posters have also featured heavily in this new anti-racism effort:

Toppling a Coup, Part VI: Electoral, Armed, or Something Else

"For seventeen years, ODECO and the man the organization calls its principal strategist, Celeo Alvarez Casildo, have built what is evidently the largest and most advanced project of community organizing anywhere in (and one that reaches across a wide geographical swathe of) Honduras," Al Giordano writes for NarcoNews.com.

"As Afro-Hondurans they have self-organized to defend and expand their civil rights and those of indigenous peoples and other minorities, to win proportional representation in Congress and other governmental bodies, to overturn NAFTA-style initiatives that would have opened the door wider to foreign ownership of Honduran property and resources and, among other conquests, to legalize 32,000 hectares of communal lands.

" 'We had always been invisible,' Alvarez, fifty-years-young, explained to your reporters. A recent reminder of the unapologetic racism rampant in the mindset of the Honduran oligarchy came in the early days after the June 28 coup d'etat when the regime's make-believe foreign minister, Enrique Ortez, expressed his views about US President Barack Obama: 'Ese negrito no sabe nada de Honduras,' or 'That little nigger doesn't know anything about Honduras.' Alvarez and ODECO launched an all-out media offensive that forced the regime's first defeat: Ortez's resignation (the regime transferred him to a less visible sinecure in its bureaucracy)."