[2066] in peace2
TODAY: forum on Colombia & FTAA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julia Steinberger)
Tue Nov 19 10:26:19 2002
Message-Id: <200211191525.KAA12296@magic-pi-ball.mit.edu>
To: peace-announce@MIT.EDU, mitai-exec@MIT.EDU, hemisphere-admin@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:25:57 -0500
From: Julia Steinberger <julias@MIT.EDU>
(please forward if appropriate)
WHEN: tonight, 6:30-8:30 pm
WHERE: Cambridge Public Library, 45 Pearl Street in Central Square
WHAT: The FTAA and U.S. policy toward Colombia:
Exposing the true goals of Washingtons' war against
terrorism in Latin America
Speakers:
Anna and Newell Hendricks
Admission Free Wheelchair Accessible Food Provided
Description: President Bush is rapidly stepping up U.S. military
involvement in Colombia in the name of fighting his 'war on
terrorism' ... But what are the actualroots of the conflict in
Colombia? What are the real goals of U.S. military strategy? What is
the connection between the U.S. neo-liberal economic plans for Latin
America and its military policy? What is the Free Trade Area of the
Americas (FTAA) and what impact will it have on the people of
Colombia? And why did the 'war on drugs' Washington has been waging in
Colombia get justified as a 'war on terrorism' after September 11,
2001?
Anna Hendricks is just returning from Ecuador where she has been working
with a campesino organization to mobilize 10,000 campesinos to come to Quito
in protest of the annual FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) Ministerial
Meetings from October 31 to November 1. Anna first went to Nicaragua in
1996 as a 14 year old to visit the sister community of Bostonsssssssss
Church of the
Covenant. She visited Colombia in January with Witness for Peace and has
been arrested twice for protesting U.S. policy toward Colombia.
Annasssssssss father, Newell Hendricks, is music director at Church of the
Covenant. He has visited Nicaragua six times leading him to look deeply
into the impact of neo-liberal economics. He has studied Spanish in Guatemala
and this past summer traveled to Colombia with a Witness for Peace delegation
where he conducted analytical interviews with the chief of the Uwa tribe,
a Colombian Congressman, the former leader of a guerrilla military unit, a
key figure in peace negotiations and other prominent personalities.
Sponsor:
The Boston Global Action Network (whose member organizations include:
American Friends Service Committee, CPPAX, Bankbusters, Democratic
Socialists of America, Grassroots International, United for a Fair Economy,
Jobs with Justice, Dollars and Sense Magazine Community Church of
Boston,Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, and many
other
organizations and community groups)
Information Phone: 617-497-5273 (Paul Shannon, American Friends Service
Committee, 2161 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA 02140)
