NSCAG UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2022
Dear Friends
Our update this month includes information about a number of forthcoming events, together with a series of articles reflecting what’s really happening in Nicaragua today. With municipal elections due in November, Nicaragua continues to suffer from ongoing US hostility and sanctions and constant attacks by corporate media. We continue to stand with Nicaragua’s people and Nicaragua’s trade union movement as they fight to defend the gains of the Revolution and the sovereignty of their country.
Solidarity rally & reception with Latin America's left,
unions & social movements during Labour Conference 2022,
26 September 18.30 – 20.30, Liverpool
Rolling solidarity rally & reception, with guests from Latin America and more on how the leftwards shift in the region challenges the neo-liberal order and US domination. Free event & open to all. Welcome drink on arrival & bar open throughout – details and registration here
NSCAG and NSC solidarity event, Saturday 29 October 14.30 – 16.30, London
For 43 years NSCAG and our sister organisation NSC have stood in solidarity with the Nicaraguan people, trade unions, social organisations and movements through building links between UK organisations and their Nicaraguan counterparts.
Join us in this solidarity event to learn more about how this has developed over recent years, particularly through education and rural development.
Venue: Lift, 45 White Lion Street, London N1 9PW (5 minutes’ walk from Angel Underground)
Speakers:
- Francisco Dominguez, NSCAG Executive Committee;
- Marlen Sanchez, ATC/Via Campesina & Director of the Latin America Institute for Agroecology in Nicaragua;
- Alix Hughes, Bristol Link with Nicaragua, twinned with Puerto Morazán;
- report of recent UK-Nicaragua teacher exchange sponsored by the NEU.
Special guest: Guisell Morales, Nicaraguan Ambassador to the UK and Ireland.
Chair: Christine Blower, Labour member of the House of Lords
Entry free but donations welcomed
Register here
NSCAG AGM Saturday 29 October 11.30 – 12.15, London
The solidarity event will be preceded in the morning by NSCAG’s AGM where we will be presenting our annual report and accounts and electing our Executive Committee for 2022/23. The AGM will also take place at Lift, 45 White Lion Street, London N1 9PW (5 minutes’ walk from Angel Underground). AGM papers will be sent only to those who have registered in advance, so please email me on nscag@nicaraguasc.org.uk if you would like to attend.
If you would like to consider standing as a member of the Executive, do please let me know – we are able to co-opt people during the year as well as electing members at the AGM.
Recent Articles
Nicaragua a ‘Dictatorship’ When It Follows US Lead on NGOs – article by John Perry – see link here
Good news in the financial arena in Nicaragua – article by Nan McCurdy and Katherine Hoyt, Alliance for Global Justice – see link here
The Catholic Church and Nicaragua – article by Becca Renk – see link here
David vs Goliath: Nicaragua’s Independence – article by Becca Renk – see link here
Women in Nicaragua: Power and Protagonism
Six virtual classes and an in-person delegation (optional) to Nicaragua, 7-16 January 2023 – for more details see here
Latin America Conference 2023: Save the date!
Latin America Conference will take place in London on Saturday 28 January 2023. More details about speakers and themes to follow – put the date in your diary now!
With thanks, as ever for your continued support.
In solidarity
Louise Richards,
Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group
www.nscag.org
Twitter: @NSCAG_UK