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ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE:

By Chuck Kaufman (AFGJ National Co-Coordinator)
The Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) and its predecessor and founder, the Nicaragua Network, have been well-known grassroots organizations within the Central and Latin America solidarity movement and the anti-corporate globalization movement for over three decades. For probably 25 years we’ve used our 501(c)(3) non-profit tax status to fiscally sponsor projects that do not have their own tax-exempt status. These started mostly as Nicaragua humanitarian aid projects to build a school, raise money for scholarships, etc. In the late 1990s we were approached by United Students Against Sweatshops to become their fiscal sponsor and since then we have added a few projects a year which have approached us. We see this as very much a part of our organization’s mission to “achieve social change and economic justice by helping to build a stronger more unified grassroots movement.” It’s not our main work. We have our own programs that work to change US policies – military, trade, labor, and human rights – primarily toward Latin America, and which act in solidarity with popular movements and progressive governments.
Our fiscal sponsorship of the Occupy Wall Street action has brought attention from the press and public that we haven’t seen since the 1980s when we were the lead organization fighting against Reagan’s proxy war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, known as the Contra War. Even our fiscal sponsorship and central role in planning the April 2000 IMF/World Bank demonstration, arguably the high water mark of the anti-corporate globalization movement, did not generate quite the focus on AfGJ that Occupy Wall Street has.
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