On February 5th, Peace and Justice for Colombia sent the following letter to Mr. Brendan O´Connor, Australian Minister for Home Affairs protesting the interrogation of a member of our organisation.
Mr Brendan O’Connor MHR
Minister for Home Affairs
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Mr. O´Connor,
Minister for Home Affairs,
We are writing to protest against the interrogation of Mr. Alejandro Rodriguez by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on February 3rd. Mr. Rodriguez is a member of our organisation, Peace and Justice for Colombia, and he is a well known advocate for workers´ rights and solidarity. Continue reading »
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HEARING ON MONDAY, DEC. 21ST 2009
We have learned that Colombian political prisoner, Liliany Obando, will have another hearing today THIS MONDAY, DEC. 21ST. Please support her application for Home Detention. This is a basic right frequently given to those accused and convicted of a broad range of crimes, including those jailed for paramilitary and parapolitical activities. Continue reading »
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Thursday 6th of August, 6:00pm
@ Melbourne University Student Union, Members′ lounge (Ground Floor, enter via Tin Alley, Parkville).
Entry by donation
Minga means “collective” or “community work”. In this session we will hear about the different social movements in Colombia, from the indigenous struggle for self determination, the Afro-Colombian opposition to forced displacement and against free-trade agreements, the people´s movement for peace with social justice.
With the participation of a Colombian Academic & member of Peace & Justice for Colombia
Plus footage & video. Continue reading »
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by Garry Leech, from Colombia Journal
Aidee Moreno Ibagué recently learned that the Colombian government is investigating her for the crime of rebellion. But Moreno Ibagué has not taken up arms against the state. She does not plant bombs in Colombia’s cities. Nor does she carry an AK-47 assault rifle in the jungles of rural Colombia where leftist guerrillas have been fighting to overthrow the government for more than four decades. She is a lawyer who lives in the capital Bogotá. More specifically, she is a human rights lawyer for the country’s largest peasant union federation Fensuagro (The National Federation of Agricultural Farming Unions). She is also an outspoken critic of the government’s security and economic policies and the dirty war it is waging against those who struggle for social justice. According to Moreno Ibagué, it is her work and her political views that have made her a target of the state. “I will not be silent when there are so many atrocities,” she declares emphatically. “They have not been able to assassinate me, so now they want to put me in prison.” Continue reading »
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PUBLIC STATEMENT
Bogota D.C. Colombia, 27th August 2008
The National Unitarian Federation of Agrarian Unions, FENSUAGRO – CUT (Colombia), denounces the siege and continued harassment against Alirio Garcia, FENSUAGRO’s attorney.
FACTS
On 16 July 2008 at 10:30 AM when Mr. Arilio, FENSUAGRO’s attorney was leaving his home at Diela suburb, of Armenia City, Quíndio. He noticed that from a parked blue Rodeo Ute with tinted windows and plate number BIB-815 that a man and a woman were filming Arilio’s residence. They remain parked for a few minutes before leaving. Continue reading »
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NATIONAL UNITARIAN FEDERATION OF AGRARIAN UNIONS- FENSUAGRO
***PRESS RELEASE**
The 17th of April is the day of resistance and courage of the peasantry and rural workers of the world. This day has been declared the international day of struggle of the peasantry and rural workers in commemoration of 19 heroic peasants of the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil, killed in the Locality of El Dorado dos Carajas, in the state of Piara.
The National Unitarian Federation of Agrarian Unions,”FENSUAGRO”, faithful to its principles and defence of the peasantry and rural workers, has launched an initiative for the strengthening of Peasants’ Participation in the Construction of a Program of Peace, Socio-Economic and Environmental Development of the Colombian country-side. Continue reading »
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