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26 Feb 2010. After a month of work stoppage and protests, this week BP at last met with the strikers and community representatives around its oil fields in Casanare, Colombia (link to previous report ).
Very late Tuesday night the two sides reached an agreement, although with some ambiguities. Earlier that day BP had tried to run a group of scabs through the picket line on the Tauramena Central Processing Facility (CPF), but the strikers chained themselves to the gates and successfully blocked the strike-breakers.
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Last October, Wayuu Indigenous leader Karmen Ramirez Boscan was in
London as a guest of the Colombia Solidarity Campaign. She came to
Britain for the AGM of mining multinational BHP Billiton, which is one
of the three multinational owners of the Cerrejon coal mine (the other
two are Anglo American and Xstrata. All three are listed on the London
Stock Exchange. The largest shareholder in Xstrata is the private Swiss
company Glencore.) Since returning to Colombia, Karmen and her
colleagues have suffered threats from paramilitaries for their
organisational work and their criticisms of the Cerrejon mine's
operations. Karmen's organisation, Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu, has issued
the following Urgent Action.
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Espanol
In
the context of the grave economic, political and social crisis which
Colombia is experiencing, the major owners of capital have continued
strengthening their methods of accumulation throughout the national
territory, especially on the basis of the policy of handing over our
natural and mineral riches to transnational companies, which the
national government outlined in "Vision 2019: Colombia as a mining
country".
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Urgent Action:
BP Oil Workers Action in Casanare Colombia - Police Repression
Workers at the BP
plant at Tauramena, part of the Cusiana oil field in Casanare,
Colombia have been protesting since 22 January 2010 for improved
wages.
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LATIN
AMERICAN WORKERS ASSOCIATION AND UBS CLEANERS SUPPORT GROUP PRESS
RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CITY
BANK TAKES MONEY OUT OF CLEANERS' POCKETS
Reinstate Alberto Durango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku4K7cbq9U0&feature=sub
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Quick Solidarity Notes Choir performance at a transit station in Vancouver of a song by David Rovics, in front of Coke advertising, just before transit police arrive. Coke is an official sponsor of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver that began 12 Feb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7GXdfJ2nxE
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Forwarded from Washington Office on Latin America December 6, 2009
Dear Activists,
AFRODES USA and WOLA urge you to contact Colombian authorities
immediately and urge them to take action to guarantee the safety of
Afro-Colombian, Indigenous and human rights leaders in northern Cauca.
On December 4, Lisifrey Ararat of the Community Council of La Toma and
the Black Communities Process (PCN) received a text message that
stated:" Hp no decidan por la comunidad que si quieren los recursos,
tienen 8 dias pasalir sigue la lista *** fin **. This translates into
English as "Motherfucker don't decide for the community what they want.
You have eight days to leave the area. The list remains active."
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We denounce before the national and international community that on 24
November 2009 our comrade Luis Javier Correa Suárez received a call on
a mobile phone assigned to him by the protection programme of the
Ministry of the Interior and justice, the call came for the mobile
number 312-8160930 and a man who identified himself as Arnold Jiménez
told Javier Correa “you have until the 22nd to renounce, and there
won’t be another phone call”, when he asked why the man replied “you
know why, don’t play games, you know what I mean” and hanged up the
phone.
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