Task Force on the Americas

Task Force on the Americas This page serves as a community outreach and educational bulletin board for www.mitfamericas.org. Announcements, events and photos are posted here.

Working together with other groups such as School of the Americas Watch, Pastors for Peace, Global Exchange, Let Haiti Live, and the Latin America Solidarity Coalition, we increase our outreach and our impact. Our volunteers seek to educate and inform the community through monthly public events and forums. Topics have ranged from structural adjustment and fair trade in the Americas to closing the

SOA to ending the embargo against Cuba. Past speakers include noted linguist Noam Chomsky, Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala activist Jennifer Harbury, Pastors for Peace founder Rev. Lucius Walker, School of the Americas Watch activist Fr. Rou Bourgeois, and Dr. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health (Haiti). Task Force on the Americas has hosted West Coast premieres of important documentary films such as The School of Assassins, The Victims of the War in Chiapas, and Haiti: Harvest of Hope. Our members have organized and participated in fact finding tours and election-monitoring delegations to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Early projects included providing continuous accompaniment to the Nongovernmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (1986-1991) and publication of a report detailing torture in El Salvador. Our recent projects include: support for an accompaniment program for witnesses of genocide in Guatemala; financial aid to schools in Chiapas, El Salvador, and Haiti; and support for a hospital in rural Haiti, a women's clinic in Nicaragua, and women's cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico. Most recently, Task Force on the Americas delegations delivered medical aid in Cuba and supplies to Cuban doctors working in Venezuela. TFA provided funds to cocoa farmers devastated by floods in the Dominican Republic, supported grassroots groups in Honduras, participated in the Haiti Accompaniment Project, and fiscally sponsored three others: SOPUDEP School, Haiti Information, and Haiti Victims assistance projects.

07/09/2025

Join me and sign CODEPINK's petition to let Airbnb know that listing properties on stolen land is reprehensible!

03/11/2025

By Roger D. Harris - Mar 3, 2025Trump’s corollary to the Monroe Doctrine – “speak loudly AND carry a big stick” – has not been applied full force on Venezuela…as of yet. Instead the new administration appears to be testing a more nuanced approach. In his first administration, he succeede...

03/06/2025

Happy first day of ! 🩵 Artwork by Karen Hallion.

01/21/2025
07/30/2024

On Monday, the National Electoral Council (CNE) officially proclaimed Nicolas Maduro as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the period

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