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Stop Intimidation of Those Who Assist Victims of Violence in Colombia
Take action: sign online petition here.
Urgent
action:
Print these letters to express your
opposition to the U.S./Colombia FTA:
then:
- sign
them,
- print your name and
address,
- make a personal comment at the
bottom (to
be more eye-catching),
- and mail them to your
congresspeople.
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Colombian
Independence Day, July 20, 2006
Flag-raising Ceremony, Government Center, Boston, MA
See the July 20th photo gallery
COLOMBIA VIVE
What
is Colombia Vive
The Boston area human rights group Colombia Vive, created in 1988,
works to inform people about the situation in Colombia, organizes
opposition to U.S. military aid to Colombia, sponsors the visit of
human rights defenders, religious workers, trade unionists, and
grassroots activists to the Boston area, and supports humanitarian aid
efforts in Colombia. We are an all-volunteer 501-c-3 nonprofit
organization.
Colombia Vive does not support any of the armed actors in the Colombian
conflict and instead supports the work of Colombian non-governmental
organizations and others in civil society who are working for peace,
social justice and human rights.
Plan Colombia and other Military Aid to Colombia
We
in Colombia Vive believe that Colombia needs
humanitarian and economic aid to help the victims of the civil war and
to help farmers find alternatives to drug crops. Military aid
from the U.S. has instead helped derail the peace process and has
exacerbated the violence, especially since it puts more weapons in the
hands of a military with close ties to paramilitary death squads
responsible for some 85% of the political violence and most of the
forceful displacement of civilians. We are strongly opposed to the
continued aerial spraying of herbicides over Colombian countryside as
part of the drug war (the defoliation and fumigation strategy), a
failed, destructive and unethical policy. We favor policies formulated
in consultation with peasant farmers such as manual eradication of the
drug crops along with viable alternative development strategies.
What Colombia Vive Is Doing Regarding
Plan
Colombia
Colombia
Vive has worked with other Boston area
organizations such as Amnesty International Group 133, the American
Friends Service Committee, the Community Church of Boston, and Witness
for Peace to educate our members of Congress about the harmful effects
of military aid to Colombia. We also seek to educate the broader public
about these issues as well as the many positive social movements in
Colombia.
Other Colombia Vive Projects
Colombia
Vive has held fundraisers to help meet
some of the dire needs of Colombia’s vast numbers of
displaced people. Funding has gone to support displaced
people in the departments of Antioquia, Arauca, Putumayo, and others.
Other Colombia Vive projects focus on the environmental impact of the
drug war, immigration legislation to aid Colombians, and supporting
labor and human rights groups in Colombia.
For
more information: please contact us at the
address below or visit these web pages:
Human rights: Amnesty
and Human Rights Watch
Analysis of U.S. policy: www.ciponline.org
Environmental impacts of drug war: www.usfumigation.org
and www.tni.org
Refugees:
www.irsa-uscr.org
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