Published in la Piedra No 5, In Colombia, the criminalization of social and popular sectors that oppose the current regime is a national disgrace. Since the 60s, every successive government has used the judiciary arm as a powerful tool to punish dissidents and rebels who fight the hideous repressive status quo imposed upon the Colombian people by the secular oligarchy of this country. It is worth looking over the last 50 years of history to understand how the judicial system has been used to repress the Colombian people.
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Are you planning to do Accompaniment in Colombia? *Application Deadline is March 20, 2009 * (The date for the following training will be set once we have enough applications. We encourage you to apply even if the deadline has passed, for the next one.) PASC accompanies Afro-Colombian communities in civil resistance, a peasant organization in the region of Catatumbo, and political prisoners. PASC aims to develop direct solidarity between volunteers from (Montreal, Canada, the Global North) and communities under attack in Colombia.
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Call out for March 15th, 2009 13rd International Day Against Police Brutality! Sunday March 15th, at 2PM at Mont-Royal metro
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The Chocó is a biogeographical region that forms part of the neotropics (meaning that it contains the largest area of tropical rainforest). Its high rainfall levels, tropical temperatures and isolation have helped make it one of the world’s most biologically diverse regions as well. In Colombia it encompasses the Pacific Coast region and, among others, the department of Chocó, located between the jungles of Darién and the basins of the Atrato and San Juan Rivers.
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Free Trade with Colombia At what cost? Saturday, February 14th, 6 PM Café Volver, 5604, avenue du Parc Colombian social movements speak out Four leaders of Colombian social movements representing women, Indigenous peoples, workers and faith-based communities are coming to Canada to speak out about the human rights impacts they believe will result if the recently signed Canada Colombia Free Trade Agreement is implemented.
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The following article by Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo, translated by dear friends of La Chiva, describes the consequence of Canadian mining investment in Colombia (though it could be of any nationality, in any other country). Colombia Goldfields, a Canadian junior company operating under its Colombian subsidiary Mineras de Caldas, has for the past several years threatened to destroy an historic community of small miners through large-scale extraction.
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Will Canada go ahead with its secretly-negotiated Free Trade Agreement with Colombia while paramilitaries reaffirm their control in the country and the Colombian president publicly attacks human rights defense organizations? Practicing political accompaniment with peasant communities displaced from their territory by the paramilitary structure of the Colombian state, our organization, Colombia Accompaniment and Solidarity Project (PASC), has always opposed the negotiation of a free trade agreement with Colombia, which will cause the multiplication of forced displac
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November 9th in Ottawa - Stories from Ground Zero: Grassroots struggle against a Paramilitary Regime
Colombia Solidarity and Accompaniment Project (PASC) and Umi Café proudly present: Stories from Ground Zero: Grassroots struggle against a Paramilitary Regime Analysing Canada's role in a human rights disaster FILM SCREENING AND PRESENTATION ************************* Umi Café 610 Somerset St. W, Ottawa Sunday, November 9th. 5 PM to 7 PM. *************************
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It seems like a slap in the face. The oil palm agro-industry has chosen precisely 16 October, World Food Sovereignty Day, and the Latin American country most hit by oil palm – Colombia – to hold the first Latin American meeting of the “Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.”
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