Political repression is on the rise in Colombia, despite recent news!
The international community must speak out!
The International Action Center issues urgent appeal for solidarity with the people of Colombia and to
support the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Bogotá, Colombia July 21-23
Support the fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations in Colombia and the Tribunal!
The human rights crisis in Colombia is dire! In the last two weeks, two trade unionists and the 10-year-old son of one of them were killed. According to some unionists, more than 4,000 unionists have been killed in Colombia in the last 20 years. Four million people have been displaced from their homes due to a U.S.-backed war against the civilian population and the social movement.
Progressive people, including journalists, human rights activists, community leaders and student organizers,have been killed, threatened or attacked for mobilizing against economic and political repression.
Make a donation to help send students, anti-war and community activists, and working people to document U.S.-backed abuse in Colombia.
In spite of recent events in Colombia, which have captured vast media attention, the reality is that political repression by the Uribe regime goes on day-in-and-day-out against those those who oppose it. This is not publicized by the press. It must be publicized by all who want human rights and justice!
The attacks are carried out by forces trained, funded and endorsed by the U.S. government. It is part of a war that has dangerous ramifications against the other countries in the region.
You can help end this war by supporting the Colombian people and by demanding that the U.S. government and corporations stop supporting state terror by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's regime.
What you can do:
Send messages of solidarity to the Tribunal!
Donate here to support the international fact-finding mission to Colombia!
Send this email out far-and-wide to organizations and individuals to get the truth out!
The Colombian labor union SINALTRAINAL, which represents Coca-Cola workers, and other progressive organizations are hosting a Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Bogotá, Colombia on July 21-23, and an international labor delegation which will visit hospitals, schools and worker centers, and meet with social organizations,
The International Action Center is working with the U.S.-Cuba Labor Exchange to take a delegation of labor, anti-war and other progressive activists on a fact-finding mission that includes participation in the Tribunal. The delegation will meet with labor and other social activists who are leading the struggle in Colombia for political, economic and social justice and equality. The trip will help participants understand how U.S. policies abroad affect workers in Colombia and in the U.S.
The fact-finding delegation will bring back the truth to activists in the U.S. about the U.S. role in Colombian repression against students, unionists, human rights activists and other progressives. This will help to build the solidarity movement with the Colombian people.
Background of Peoples' Tribunal: The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal is an international independent tribunal that examines and judges complaints regarding violations of human rights that have been submitted by the victims. The Tribunal was founded in June 1979 in Italy by legal experts, writers and other intellectuals. It followed the Bertrand Russell International War Crimes Tribunal, which held two sessions in 1967 to expose war crimes committed against the Vietnamese people.
The upcoming Tribunal session in Bogotá, entitled "Transnational corporations and crimes against humanity," will be the last held there after four prior hearings on (1) how foreign-owned agribusinesses have affected farmers and Indigenous peoples; (2) the mining companies' role; (3) the impact of transnational corporate-controlled development on biodiversity and the environment and (4) oil companies and human rights violations.
The Tribunal is an extremely important event that will help expose the dangerous, and escalating U.S. corporate-backed state repression against people's movements.
It will also reinvigorate the many peoples' movements and progressive forces with the solidarity that international delegations bring.
Edgar Paez from SINALTRAINAL says of the Tribunal's purpose: "Through this process we will increase the exposure of the relations between paramilitarism, transnational corporations and the policy of impunity and terror of the Colombian state. Its main purpose is the search for truth, justice and complete reparations. Several transnational corporations have been accused at the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal--Colombia Session, regarding their responsibility for the murder of union leaders for the violation of union freedom and the right of association."
This is a critical situation! It needs the attention and help of progressive people throughout the U.S.!
Tell your friends about it! http://www.iacenter.org/colombia/delegation
Make a donation to help send students, anti-war and community activists, and working people to document U.S.-backed abuse in Colombia.
Help with costs of videotaping and publishing reports from the trip--and more! http://www.iacenter.org/colombia/delegation
Send messages of solidarity to the Peoples' Tribunal! Ask community, union, religious, anti-war and other organizations and activists to email messages of support!
Post messages here : http://www.iacenter.org/colombia/delegation
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