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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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Background
Edwin
Legarda, the husband of Colombian indigenous leader Aida Quilcue, was
killed on 16 December 2008 when the Colombian army ambushed his car in
an attack seemingly meant for Aida. Soldiers fired 106 bullets at the
vehicle, piercing it 17 times. President Uribe and army figures
immediately claimed that Edwin had failed to stop at an army
checkpoint, and for this reason the soldiers opened fire.
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The organizations
listed below urgently contact inter-governmental human rights organizations,
international organizations and the general public in order to inform about the
security situation of the human rights lawyer JORGE ELIECER MOLANO RODRIGUEZ,
who during the last few days has experienced increased persecution, including
the harassment of his family.
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THE GENOCIDE OF INDIGENOUS
COMMUNITIES CONTINUES:
CERRO TIJERAS INDIGENOUS RESERVE
(SUAREZ MUNICIPALITY,
CAUCA DEPARTMENT) AND HONDURAS
INDIGENOUS RESERVE (MORALES
MUNICIPALITY) TARGET OF
CRIMES
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Paramilitaries
threaten social organisations in southwest Colombia again.
Aida Quilcué amongst those declared as military objective by
paramilitaries
Paramilitaries have again threatened social
organisations across the southwest region of Colombia, as paramilitary violence
and threats continue to intensify in the Andean country. Indigenous leader Aida
Quilcué was amongst those threatened, a month after she returned from a trip to
the UK at the invite of Unison Northern and the Northern TUC, in conjunction
with the Colombia Solidarity Campaign.
The threat is signed by the ‘Grupo Armado Los Ratrojos
– Comandos Urbanos’, a new generation paramilitary militia based in
Nariño department, and dated November 2009. It names Aida and several other
social organisations and individuals which operate in the South West region of Colombia.
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Upcoming Events
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3pm SAT 14 NOV SOAS Climate Change And Multinationals - Colombia, Bolivia Grassroots
3pm-6pm School
of Oriental and African
Studies (SOAS) come to reception and ask for room
University of London Thornhaugh Street,
Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Isaac Marín in discussion with Cristian Domínguez, who has been at the forefront
of environmental justice campaigns in Bolivia, opposing water
privatisation and working for the nationalisation of natural resources.
The organisation he represents, the CSUTCB, is one of the main social movement
organisations which brought president Evo Morales to power.
Organised by Colombia
Solidarity Campaign, Latin American Workers Association, Polo Democratico UK and Bolivia Solidarity Campaign.
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