Colombia Solidarity Campaign

Monday, November 10, 2008

An Open Letter from the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, ACIN, to U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama

Colombia Social Emergency

PRESIDENT ALVARO URIBE VELEZ TALKS WITH RIFLE SHOTS

S.O.S  For the right to protest and safety of indigenous people, campesinos and cane cutters
The General’s Orders: they are going to kill us tonight
Colombia announces the expulsion of two French people for supporting the cane cutters stoppage

S.O.S  Por el al derecho a la protesta y por la integridad de indígenas, campesinos y corteros de caña.
Las órdenes del General: nos va a matar esta noche.
Estimados amigos y aliados de la Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia, ONIC.
Colombia: anuncian expulsión de dos franceses por apoyar paro de cañeros

THE WOMEN’S PACIFIC ROUTE REJECTS THE ASSASINATION OF ONE OF ITS MEMBERS IN MEDELLIN

Paradoxically, while in Bogota the Route (the Women’s Pacific Route – which the Colombia Solidarity Campaign supported earlier this year as they marched to the Ecuadorian border) was presenting the book, “Violence against women in a society of war”, in Medellin one of its members was massacred along with her son, niece and nephew one of whom was less than 5 years old.

DEPORTED FROM COLOMBIA

CHRISTINA FRIEDERIKA MÜLLER A RESEARCHER WITH MASTERS IN COMMUNICATIONS