from ashes to hope, from death to life. 15th – 23rd February, 2007 10 years of destruction 10 years working towards dignity 10 years pursuing the dignity of the self and the future of humanity CONVOCAN - YOU ARE INVITED BY- CONVOQUENT- CONVOCA: Asociación de familiares de las Víctimas de Riosucio CLAMORES Asociación de cabildos Cuna, Embara, Katio, ACIKEK Resguardo Indígena Jooin Pubuur - Cacarica Familias de los Consejos Comunitarios del Cacarica de Autodeterminación, Vida, Dignidad del Cacarica-CAVIDA-. Consejo Comunitario del Curvaradó Consejo Comunitario d
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Curvaradó – Jiguamiandó Renewal of sowing and extraction of African Palm “We will enter El Tesoro (HZ) and El Limón (BZ) where there are many people reclaiming their land” said an ex-paramilitary. SUMMARY
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The Western world, and in particular the countries of the North, gave in to addiction to fossil fuels. This path has led to something that today nobody can doubt: climate change. Many solutions have been put forth to face it, but most of them let humanity’s race towards suicide continue as vigorously as before. Biofuel mega-projects are some of the proposals to solve the problem. However, have those who submitted them as an alternative measured the consequences their creation could have on important ecosystems, peoples and culture?
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Members of the PASC list Greetings to all! Here is a short newsletter describing the PASC activities in this beginning of the year 2007. To all people interested in international accompaniment in Colombia: the training session will take place from January to May 2007. Nevertheless, it is possible to join even if it has already started. Just fill in the form at this address: http://www.pasc.ca/spip.php?article3 and contact us at: info@pasc.ca
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Up a flight of stairs, behind double-enforced bulletproof glass and a large, silent bodyguard sits the office of Francisco Ramírez, a mining-policy researcher and president of Sintraminercol, Colombia’s state mineworkers’ union. Mining policy really isn’t sexy stuff and researching it usually isn’t a dangerous occupation, but some of Mr. Ramírez’s conclusions can mean life or death, both literally and figuratively. “Once they tried to kill me right here in this office,” said the researcher, who has survived seven assassination attempts.
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New protection tactics for palm oil and logging company interests.
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African palm plantation companies are playing a growing role in helping paramilitaries consolidate their control of the Uraba region of Choco and Antioquia in Colombia. Indigenous, Afro-Colombian, and peace communities have long stood in the way of corporate projects in Uraba.
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THE UNDERSIGNED TRADE UNIONS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS REJECT THE SUSPENSION OF THE SECURITY MEASURES AGREED WITH THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CAUTIONARY MEASURES DECREED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE PHYSICAL INTEGRITY AND LIFE OF THE PRESIDENT OF SINTRAMINERCOL.
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Ground report 75 Recalling that since the 8th of April 2006 the families of Curvarado, accompanied by Jusictia y Paz and PASC have been building a new Humanitarian Zone on land owned by Don Enrique Petro, member of the collective territory of Curvarado. A land which had been illegally sown with palm since the forced displacement. Recalling also that this fact is no longer in legal dispute, the Columbian government having recognized (in response to an urgent action) that this land legally and legitimately belongs to Enrique Petro.
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