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THE STRUGGLE FOR PEACE & JUSTICE IN COLOMBIA (4/4)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Monami Chakrabarti)
Sat Mar 30 12:24:37 2002
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:24:16 -0500
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MIT Amnesty International & the MIT Western Hemisphere Project present ...
THE STRUGGLE FOR PEACE & JUSTICE IN COLOMBIA
A Talk by Nimia Teresa Vargas Cuenta,
Co-Founder of the Colombian Network of Rural Women
Thursday, April 4
7 pm in MIT Room 4-231
The event is open to all; admission is free.
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A former governor of Choco in Colombia has written that "The
history of Black people in Colombia is the history of a
struggle for freedom and land, and against discrimination and
invisibility." Ms. Vargas, a long-time Afro-Colombian activist
in the Choco region, will speak about what's happening in her
native land: racism, corruption fueled by foreign investors, a
plague of assassinations, and a civil war now funded in large
part by the United States tax-payer. She will describe her work
in grass-roots community development and discuss the challenges
faced by human-rights defenders and peace activists in Colombia.
(See http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/choco.shtml.)
Vargas is the Executive Director of the Federation of Non-Profit
Non-Governmental Organizations of the Choco and is active in
the Departmental Network of Women of the Choco. She is the
founder of 17 grassroots organizations whose purpose is to help
in the construction of civil society and in the development of
productive income-generating projects.
This discussion is organized by the MIT Western Hemisphere
Project (http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/) and the MIT chapter
of Amnesty International (http://web.mit.edu/amnesty). It
follows other events hosted by the WHP on life and politics
in Colombia (http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/themes/).
Directions to MIT Room 4-231
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See http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/directions/
Contact
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If you need more information or if you want to let us know what you
think of the program, you can reach us via <mitai-exec@mit.edu>,
<hemisphere-admin@mit.edu>, or http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/feedback/
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