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Apr 13
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Entérese de la situación que vive hoy el municipio de Tauramena, departamento de Casanare, frente al comportamiento de la empresa transnacional BP
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Mar 27
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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. Continue reading »
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Sep 19
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“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. Continue reading »
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Sep 18
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“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. Continue reading »
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Aug 23
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Latin American media TeleSUR developed this map, presenting the US military bases in the region, the new bases in Colombia, a map of the social movements and of the natural resources (biodiversity, water resources and oil).
click here (available in Spanish only)
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Aug 03
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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. Continue reading »
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Jan 26
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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 »
