[2130] in peace2
Dec. 11, Plan Columbia event at Harvard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Tue Dec 10 10:53:32 2002
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From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: don't miss this
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:44:54 -0500
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- 3800 union leaders and activists have been assassinated in Colombia
since 1985.
- 148 union members have been assassinated this year as of November 2002.
- Four out of every five union members killed in the world are Colombian.
THE PROGRESSIVE STUDENT LABOR MOVEMENT INVITES YOU TO.......
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A TALK WITH COLOMBIAN HIGHWAY WORKER AND UNION LEADER
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HECTOR GIRALDO
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11, 5PM SCIENCE CENTER C
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Four out of every five union leaders killed in the world are Colombian.
Since 1985, 3,800 union leaders have been killed, with 148 labor activists
assasinated in 2002 alone. Responsible for these deaths are the squads of
anti-union right-wing Colombian paramilitaries, closely linked to the
Colombian military which is supplied with billions of U.S. dollars and
military equipment through Plan Colombia. According to a Human Rights Watch
report, "Military and police detachments continue to promote, work with,
support, profit from, and tolerate paramilitary groups, treating them as a
force allied to and compatible with their own."
Mr. Giraldo, whose own life has been seriously threatened by
paramilitaries, is in the U.S. on a one-year asylum through the AFL-CIO
Solidarity Center. He will speak on the violence against trade unionists
in Colombia and the devastating effects of Plan Colombia on the land and
people of his region. He will discuss the proposed Free Trade Area of
the Americas and the effects that privatization of national industries
will have on human and labor rights.
Please come and listen to Mr. Giraldo and his truly heroic struggle to
defend the rights of Colombian working people under the most dire of
circumstances.
************ DECEMBER 11, 5 PM SCIENCE CENTER C ****************
For more information, contact Dan Dimaggio
dimaggio@fas.harvard.edu
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