The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (Melbourne) invites you to join a public forum to discuss US President Barrack Obama’s escalating military and political offensive in Latin America, the principle target of which is the Bolivarian revolution underway in Venezuela.Speakers:
Jesus Gonzalez – Peace & Justice for Colombia
Sean Seymour-Jones – Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network
Other speakers to be confirmed.

2pm
Saturday, April 10
University Function Room, Building 8
RMIT University (near Kaleide Theatre)

All welcome.

For more info, phone Roberto 0425 182 994 or Trent 0407 070 841

ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE ANNOUNCES:

Eyewitness Investigation–Is the US Funding a War on Colombian Farmers?

August 1 through 11, 2010

Our Hosts:

• FENSUAGRO, Colombia’s largest labor federation of farmers and farm workers
• Traspaso los Muros, an organization of persons both inside and outside Colombian jails advocating for the rights of political prisoners.

Cost:

$1,400, not including international air fare. Some scholarships may be available. Costs include…

• Several in-country trips to collect testimonies in rural, indigenous and Afro Colombian communities;
• All food and lodging;
• Translation services and in-country guides;
• Educational material and other delegation related expenses.

Featuring:

• Visits to rural, indigenous and Afro Colombian communities (sleeping bags will be required for some overnight visits);
• Meetings with leaders and members of FENSUAGRO, as well as miners’ and oil workers’ unions;
• Testimonies and analysis of how foreign companies are threatening sustainable agriculture;
• Interviews with journalists and elected officials from the political opposition;
• Presentations from student activists;
• Visits with political prisoners and their families.

This will be a working delegation, producing a comprehensive report on conditions faced by Colombian farmers and how these are affected by US policies. We will collect testimonies and investigate how rural, indigenous and Afro Colombian lands are being cleared for the benefit of foreign corporate access to natural resources. FENSUAGRO is the union most targeted by political violence and other forms of repression. Our goal will be to build internationalist support for Colombian farmers and FENSUAGRO members by exposing dangers they face and advocating for a US policy that strives for peace and justice rather than war. This does not mean, though, that the delegation will be all work and no play! There will be ample opportunity to relax, enjoy Colombian culture and make new friends in our shared struggle to build a new and better world!

For more information: email- james@afgj.org

Phone- 520-243-0381

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Stop criminalisation of International Solidarity!

Stop State Terror in Colombia!

Saturday, March 6^th, 7:30pm

Garema Place, ACT Canberra

A documentary on the current struggles of the Colombian people will be screened, introduced by Colombia solidarity activists. Followed by the controversial documentary that Uribe does not want you to see.

At the time Colombian President Alvaro Uribe agrees to accept seven new US military bases and the US government reactivate its Fourth fleet, Colombian peasants, workers, indigenous, women and children continue to be displaced or even executed.

Internationally, all of those who denounce the criminal regime of Uribe, demand social justice or show any kind of solidarity with the Colombian people and workers, are immediately accused of supporting terrorism. In the US, Australia and other countries, activists, journalists and human rights advocates had been harassed or interrogated by the police. The Colombian government, supported by their Ambassadors and supporters around the world, is leading a campaign to suppress websites, ban films from being publicly screened and persecute political activists.

The Colombian people deserve the support of people around the world. International solidarity is not a criminal activity and all efforts to silence voices of dissent attempt against the basic civil liberties.

This night we will come together to:

• Demand justice for the victims of state terror in Colombia
• Denounce all initiatives to criminalise international solidarity
• Defend our civil rights and liberties to express our solidarity

Supported by: Revolutionary Socialist Party (Canberra), Communist Party of Australia (Victoria) and Socialist Alliance

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To Friends and Supporters of Peace and Justice for Colombia

We regret that it has become necessary to postpone the proposed tour and public meetings of Senator Piedad Cordoba Ruiz scheduled for November 2009.

The Senator has advised us that she must postpone the tour due to the imminent release of prisoners in the conflict in Colombia.

Because of the key role she plays in difficult negotiations with the Uribe Government, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) she is required to be in the country in the coming period.

Senator Cordoba has profusely apologised for any inconvenience and has indicated that we may be able to reschedule for January or February 2010. Peace and Justice for Colombia will advise all supporters as soon as new arrangements are made.

In solidarity,
Peace and Justice For Colombia

“In rejection of the persecution against the political opposition
in Colombia through the liberation of the political prisoners and
for the humanitarian exchange”

Justification

The Colombian State has historically and systematically violated Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, through the implementation of strategies and/or policies of war that look for whatever means to put an end to free thinking in our country.  From the physical extermination and disappearances forced on the political opposition in the years of the 70s, 80s and 90s to the accusations, persecutions, fabrications of testimony and the incarceration of all persons who raise their voices in protest.

There exist more than 7,200 persons deprived of their liberty for political motives, that is to say, for having exercised their political opposition to the current regime or for the simple act of living in zones highly affected by the internal armed conflict; these persons are political prisoners, whether it be due to conscience, war, or judicial frame-ups, who for many years have been unrecognized by the Colombian State, with the object of denying the existence of a social, political, and armed conflict, and evading its responsibility to seek a political and negotiated end to the conflict.

In the development of the policy of Democratic Security by its standard-bearer, President Alvaro Uribe Velez, and in his eagerness to show “positive” results, the Colombian state has violated the right to life of more than 1,171 persons who are victims of extrajudicial executions attributed to the national army, and also the right to freedom of thought, increasing the political persecution and incarceration without just cause against intellectuals, teachers, students, unionists, defenders of human rights, among others.  In this way whoever dares to express their critical thinking and opposition is repressed with the tool of the jail. As an example of this we call attention to the unjust detentions and submissions to the judicial processes of the sociologist and Colombian National University professor MIGUEL ANGEL BELTRÁN VILLEGAS, Colombia National University sociologist and defender of human Rights LILIANY PATRICIA OBANDO VILLOTA, the graduate in Social Sciences from the National Pedagogical University and social activist WILLIAN JAVIER DÍAZ RAMIREZ, and hundreds of teachers, university students, journalists and members of the Colombian opposition presently linked to penal investigations with the object of generating terror and exterminating critical thinking.

In rejection of the previous, we invite the National and International Community to take to the streets on the 1st of October, 2009 to celebrate the existence of those who dare to think differently, and to say:  no to more judicial frame-ups, no to the criminalization of critical thinking and social protest, yes to the humanitarian accord and freedom for all the Colombian political prisoners.

General Objectives:

• To denounce the grave crisis the country is suffering in the matter of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.
• To reject the criminalization of critical thinking and the persecution against the political opposition in Colombia.
• To make visible the existence of the Colombian political prisoners and to restore them as social activists.
• To demand of the Colombian state the approval of the humanitarian accord and the liberty of all the political prisoners.

Methodology

The 1st of October, 2009, in a simultaneous manner there will take place political-cultural activities at a local, national, and international level.

At the international level:

Different international organizations in Solidarity with Colombia will hold autonomously organized high impact activities in the following cities and countries: Argentina; Australia; Canada; Washington, DC, Tucson, and Chicago, USA; France; and Mexico City, Mexico. (List will be updated as new cities are added).

Equally, the international organizations will publically pronounce their Solidarity with the political prisoners and their families.

At a national level:

There will occur a cultural demonstration in front of the Attorney General of the Nation, the 1st of October, 2009, from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m., in the cities of Armenia, Cali, Barranquilla, Bogotá, Bucaramanga and Medellín; by means of diverse social and political sectors they will make visible the policies of persecutions and criminalization of the opposition  in Colombia and the problem of the political prisoners, understood to include the prisoners of conscience, victims of judicial frame-ups and arbitrary detentions, and prisoners of war.

Typical cases of the Colombian political prisoners will be made visible in a symbolic manner.

In Bogotá: The meeting place will be at 9:30 a.m., in the principal building of the Attorney General of the Nation located at Diagonal 22B No. 52-01 (ciudad salitre), where it will remain from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. This will be followed by a rally to the “Che” plaza at the National University.

In Armenia, Cali, Barranquilla, Bucaramanga y Medellín: Meeting places will be determined autonomously by the regional coordinators, and at 9:30 a.m., will begin the movement to the principal seat of the respective Sectional Directorate of the Attorney General, where it will remain from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.

At the local level:

In the city of Bogotá, D.C., the persons deprived of their liberty for political motives, will realize simultaneous recreational and cultural activities in the following detention facilities:  La Picota Penitentiary, La Modelo Jail, and the Buen Pastor Women’s Penitentiary.

Likewise, the political prisoners will draw up a communication to be distributed for the public opinion, in support of the Carnival for the Defense of Critical Thinking.

CONVENERS:

National Organizacions

- Campaña Permanente de Solidaridad con las y los Detenidos Políticas “Traspasa Los Muros”

- Campaña TJER Libertad – Por la Libertad de William Javier Díaz

- Campaña por la Libertad de Miguel Ángel Beltrán Villegas

- Campaña por la Libertad de Liliany Obando

- Cruz Negra Anarquista – CNA

- Federación de Estudiantes Universitarios – FEU

- Mandato Estudiantil por el Acuerdo Humanitario

- Colectivo de Estudiantes de la ESAP

- Colectivo Juana Julia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia

- Asociación de Profesores Universitarios – ASPU

- Federación de Profesores Universitarios – FENALPROU

- Unión Sindical Obrera – USO

- Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la USO

- Comité Permanente para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos

- Federación Nacional Sindical Unitaria Agropecuaria – FENSUAGRO

- Coordinación Nacional Agraria y Popular – CONAP

International Organizaciones

International Network in Solidarity with Colombia’s Political Prisoners (International)

Freedom for Liliany Campaign (Australia)

Campaign for Labor Rights (USA)

Alliance for Global Justice (USA)

Colombia Action Network (USA)

Peace and Justice for Colombia, PJFC (Australia)

Central America Solidarity Coalition (Canada)

Colombia Solidarity Campaign (Canada)

Latin America Solidarity Coalition (USA)

Organizations Behind Bars

- Colectivo de Prisioneras Políticas “Traspasa los Muros” – Reclusión de Mujeres el Buen Pastor de Bogotá

- Colectivo de Prisioneros Políticos “Traspasa los Muros” – Cárcel Nacional la Modelo de Bogotá – Alta Seguridad

- Colectivo de Prisioneros Políticos “Traspasa los Muros” – Establecimiento Carcelario y Penitenciario La Picota de Bogotá

“En rechazo a la persecución contra opositores políticos en Colombia, por la libertad de las y los prisioneros políticos y por el acuerdo humanitario”

Actividades para el 1 de octubre a nivel mundial

Justificación

El Estado Colombiano ha violado histórica y sistemáticamente los Derechos Humanos y el Derecho Internacional Humanitario, a través de la implementación de estrategias y/o políticas de guerra que buscan por cualquier medio acabar con el libre pensamiento en nuestro país. Del exterminio físico y las desapariciones forzadas contra opositores políticos en los años 7Os, 80s y 90s pasó a los señalamientos, persecuciones, fabricación de pruebas y encarcelamiento de todas las personas que levantan sus voces de protesta.

Justificación

El Estado Colombiano ha violado histórica y sistemáticamente los Derechos Humanos y el Derecho Internacional Humanitario, a través de la implementación de estrategias y/o políticas de guerra que buscan por cualquier medio acabar con el libre pensamiento en nuestro país. Del exterminio físico y las desapariciones forzadas contra opositores políticos en los años 7Os, 80s y 90s pasó a los señalamientos, persecuciones, fabricación de pruebas y encarcelamiento de todas las personas que levantan sus voces de protesta.

En las cárceles Colombianas existen mas de 7.200[1] personas privadas de la libertad por motivos políticos, es decir, por haber ejercido su oposición política al régimen vigente o por el sólo hecho de vivir en zonas altamente afectadas por el conflicto armado interno; estas personas son prisioneros y prisioneras políticas, ya sean de conciencia, de guerra o victimas de montajes judiciales, que durante muchos años han sido desconocidas por el Estado Colombiano, con el objeto de negar la existencia de un conflicto social, político y armado, y evadir su responsabilidad en la búsqueda de una solución política y negociada al conflicto.

En desarrollo de la política de seguridad democrática abanderada por el presidente Álvaro Uribe Vélez, y en su afán de mostrar resultados “positivos”, el Estado Colombiano ha vulnerado el derecho a la vida de mas de 1.171 personas victimas de ejecuciones extrajudiciales atribuidas al ejército nacional[2], y también el derecho a la libertad de pensamiento aumentando la persecución política y el encarcelamiento sin justa causa contra intelectuales, maestros/as, estudiantes, sindicalistas, defensores/as de derechos humanos, entre otros. Es así como se reprime con la herramienta de la cárcel a quien se atreve a expresar su pensamiento crítico y de oposición, como ejemplo de ello resaltamos las injustas detenciones y sometimiento a juicio del sociólogo y profesor de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia MIGUEL ÁNGEL BELTRÁN VILLEGAS, la socióloga de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y defensora de derechos humanos LILIANY PATRICIA OBANDO VILLOTA, el Licenciado en Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y activista social WILLIAN JAVIER DÍAZ RAMIREZ, y un centenar de docentes, estudiantes universitarios, periodistas y miembros de la oposición colombiana, vinculados actualmente a investigaciones penales con el objeto de generar terror y exterminar el pensamiento critico.

En rechazo a lo anterior, invitamos a la Comunidad Nacional e Internacional a ocupar las calles el 1 de octubre de 2009, para festejar la existencia de quienes nos atrevemos a pensar diferente, y para decir: no más montajes judiciales, no a la criminalización del pensamiento crítico y de la protesta social, libertad para las y los presos políticos colombianos, si al cuerdo humanitario.

Objetivo General:

Realizar el 1 de octubre de 2009, actividades político-culturales en Defensa del Pensamiento Crítico y la Libertad de las y los Prisioneros Políticos, a nivel Internacional, Nacional y Local.

Objetivos Específicos:

• Denunciar la grave crisis que padece el país en materia de Derechos Humanos y Derecho Internacional Humanitario.
• Rechazar la criminalización del pensamiento crítico y la persecución contra las y los opositores políticos en Colombia.
• Visibilizar la existencia de prisioneras y prisioneros políticos en Colombia y reivindicarlos como luchadores sociales y políticos.
• Exigir al Estado Colombiano la aprobación del acuerdo humanitario y la libertad todas y todos los presos políticos.

Metodología

El 1 de octubre de 2009, de manera simultánea se realizarán actividades político-culturales a nivel internacional, nacional y local.

A nivel internacional:

Diferentes organizaciones internacionales en solidaridad con Colombia, autónomamente llevaran a cabo actividades de alto impacto político en las ciudades principales de los países de Argentina, Australia, Canadá, Estados Unidos, Francia y México.

Igualmente, las organizaciones internacionales se pronunciaran públicamente en solidaridad con las y los prisioneros políticos y sus familiares.

A nivel nacional:

Se realizará un plantón cultural al frente de la Fiscalía General de la Nación, el día 1 de octubre de 2009, desde las 10:00 a.m. hasta las 12:00 m., en las ciudades de Armenia, Cali, Barraquilla, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Ibagué, Pasto y Medellín; mediante el cual diversos sectores sociales y políticos visibilizaran la política de persecución y criminalización de la oposición en Colombia y la problemática de las y los prisioneros políticos, entendiendo como tal a los prisioneros-as de conciencia, víctimas de montajes judiciales y detenciones arbitrarias, y prisioneros-as de guerra.

De manera simbólica se visibilizaran los casos tipos de prisioneros políticos colombianos.

En Bogotá: El punto de encuentro será a 9:30 a.m en la sede principal de la Fiscalía General de la Nación ubicada en la Diagonal 22B No. 52 – 01 (ciudad salitre), donde se permanecerá desde las 10:00 a.m. hasta las 12:00 m. posteriormente, se hará el desplazamiento en marcha hasta llegar a la plaza “Che” de la Universidad Nacional.

En Armenia, Cali, Barraquilla, Bucaramanga, Ibagué, Pasto y Medellín: El punto de encuentro lo determinarán autónomamente las coordinaciones regionales, y a las 9:30 a.m., se hará presencia en las sedes principal de la Dirección Seccional de Fiscalía respectivamnte, donde se permanecerá desde las 10:00 a.m. hasta las 12:00 m.

A nivel local:

En la ciudad de Bogotá D.C., las personas privadas de la libertad por motivos políticos, realizarán simultáneamente actividades de tipo recreativo y cultural en los siguientes establecimientos de reclusión: Penitenciaria La Picota, Cárcel La Modelo y Reclusión de Mujeres El Buen Pastor.

Igualmente, en apoyo al Plantón las y los prisioneros políticos elaboraran un comunicado para difundir a la opinión pública.

INFORMES:

e-mail: camperpp@gmail.com

web:  libertadpresxspoliticxs.jimdo.com

CONVOCAN:

Organizaciones Intramurales

-  Colectivo de Prisioneras Políticas de la Reclusión de Mujeres el Buen Pastor de Bogotá

- Colectivo de Prisioneros Políticos Cárcel Nacional La Modelo de Bogotá

- Colectivo de Prisioneros Políticos Penitenciaria La Picota de Bogotá

Organizaciones Nacionales

- Campaña Permanente de Solidaridad con las y los Detenidos Políticas “Traspasa Los Muros”

- Campaña TJER Libertad – Por la Libertad de William Javier Díaz

- Campaña por la Libertad de Miguel Ángel Beltrán Villegas

- Campaña por la Libertad de Liliany Obando

- Comité Distrital por el Acuerdo Humanitario y la Paz

- Cruz Negra Anarquista – CNA

- Federación de Estudiantes Universitarios – FEU

- Mandato Estudiantil por el Acuerdo Humanitario

- Rebeldía  Estudiantil Organizada – REO

- Colectivo de Estudiantes de la ESAP

- Colectivo de Estudiantes Universitarios Afrodescendientes – CEUNA

- Juventud Comunista Colombiana

- Asociación Colombiana de Estudiantes Universitarios – ACEU

- Hijos e Hijas por la Memoria y contra la impunidad

- Colectivo Juana Julia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia

- Colectivo ASOMUR

-Coordinadora Juvenil de Bogota

- Corporación Casa de la Juventud – CCJ

- Asociación de Profesores Universitarios – ASPU

- Federación de Profesores Universitarios – FENALPROU

- Movimiento Nacional de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado – MOVICE

- Unión Sindical Obrera – USO

- Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la USO

- Sindicato Mixto de Trabajadores de las Universidades Públicas Nacionales – SINTRAUNAL

- Comité Permanente para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos

- Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos

- Campaña Nacional e Internacional contra la Extradición de Presos Políticos

- Fundación Walter Benjamín

- Asociación Colombiana de Juristas Demócratas – ACOLJUDE

- Federación Nacional Sindical Unitaria Agropecuaria – FENSUAGRO

- Coordinación Nacional Agraria y Popular – CONAP

Organizaciones Internacionales

- Red Internacional en Solidaridad con las y los Prisioneros Políticos Colombianos/ International Network in Solidarity with Colombia’s Political Prisoners

- Campaña Permanente de Solidaridad con l@s Pres@s Politic@s de Nuestra América “Creando Puentes”

- Paz y Justicia para Colombia, PJFC / Peace and Justice for Colombia, PJFC

- Campaña Internacional por la Libertad de Liliany Obando/Freedom for Liliany

- Campaña por Derechos Laborales / Campaign for Labor Rights

- Alianza por Justicia Global / Alliance for Global Justice

- Red de Acción Colombiana/ Colombia Action Network

- Coalición de Solidaridad con América Latina/Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC)

[2] Fuente: Fiscalía General de la Nación

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.

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After the presentation, the Free Liliany Obando Campaign (Melbourne) invites you to share a “Coffee for Freedom”, to hear some updates about Liliany´s case and to send our solidarity to Liliany, her family and other political prisoners suffering injustice.

On August 7th, 2008, the Union leader, academic & film-maker Liliany Obando, was arrested by Colombian government forces. She was detained on charges of “rebellion” against the state, a catch-all charge that is regularly used to imprison those who speak out against the government & is used to delegitimise the work of social activists. Her trial started at the beginning of July and the charges remain unsubstantiated.

Drink hot organic coffee. All donations will go to the “Freedom Fund” in support of Colombian political prisoners.

Further details call: Sergio 0432 956 198 or Lulu 0421 957 341

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Dear comrades,

People´s Power is Changing the World

Victorian Trades Hall

Major cracks are appearing in the global capitalist system – cracks that are being forced open by the tide of rebellions and revolutions across Latin America.

From Cuba to Venezuela and Bolivia to El Salvador, people’s power is toppling neo-liberal governments, challenging multinational corporations, and constructing social and economic alternatives to the plunder, war and injustices of the old system. For 50 years, the Cuban revolution has inspired millions of people around the world struggling for independence, human rights and genuine democracy. Now, the Venezuelan revolution, with its vision of “socialism of the 21st century”, is continuing to provide examples of what a socialist government can achieve.

Imperialism is confronting an unprecedented challenge to its brutal rule. The Latin America Solidarity Conference will provide an open forum for all people wanting to learn about, learn from and build solidarity in Australia with the people’s power movements in Latin America.

FRIDAY

7pm • People’s power is changing the world: revolution and reconstruction in Latin America
50 years since the victory of the Cuban revolution and 10 years since the coming to power of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has shown that the continent is unwilling to bow to international capital. Over the last few years further victories have been added including Evo Morales in Bolivia and the FMLN in El Salvador. What does all this mean for a new socialism of the 21st century?

SATURDAY

9:30am • Obama´s foreign policy for Latin America: militarisation, blockade& trade agreements
The Bush administration supported death squads and mass killings in Colombia, an attempted coup in Venezuela, continued the blockade against Cuba, organised assassination attempts against Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales and reinforced trade agreements in favour of its multinationals. Will the empire be any different under the Democrat regime of Obama?

2pm • Latin America as alternative: new models of economic, social and political power
After more than two decades of orthodox neoliberal doctrine and anti-democratic regimes, the tide has decisively turned across Latin America. Spearheaded by the Venezuelan revolution’s practical experiements in participtory economic and democratic models, the movement is impacting struggle from Boliva to El Salvador and Ecuador. The “end of history” has itself ended; a new discussion and practice for human suvivial and justice is being pursued apace.

5:30pm • Their struggle is our struggle: Strengthening solidarity
Campaigns, brigades and projects have been part of the process of globalising resistance to exploitation and inequality and building solidarity between Australia and Latin America.

Plus many workshops and evening fiesta

Registration:

Friday*: Conc $5/ regular $10/ Solidarity $15
Saturday: Conc $15/ regular $40/ Solidarity $50
* When registering for Saturday, Friday is free
To register use the form attached below or fill in the online form on the website.
Payments can be made by Money order or Cheque payable to Solidarity Conference.

Please send registration forms to c/ PO Box 5421 CC Melbourne VIC 3001
For more information, please email info@solidarityconference2009.org or phone
Roberto 0425 182 994, Sean 0415 122 135,
Oscar 0415 232 057, Paul 0413 072 137 or Lisa 0413 031 108

Saturday, 23rd May
1:00 pm
Trades Hall
(New Council Chambers Crn Lygon & Victoria St, Carlton)

Documentary and discussion night with the participation of  Colombian Human rights activists and Peace & Justice for Colombia

Colombia is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a unionised worker, a young person, Afro-descendant or human rights activist. The Colombian army and paramilitaries had imposed state terror as a form of governance. However, organised labour, communities, students, organise in order to gain their country back.

Peace and Justice for Colombia is running a series of information sessions to raise awareness about the tough situation of human rights in Colombia, and the possible paths to a political solution.

Entry by donation
More info: www.colombiasolidarity.net
Phone Lulu: 0421 957 341 or Cecilia: 0401 737 569