Stop Plan Colombia
Four Steps toward Hope and Change in US-Colombia Relations
Please sign the Four Steps toward Hope and Change in US-Colombia Relations. We are calling on Congress people to use their votes and influence to achieve the following goals:
- NO US-COLOMBIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT!
- NO US MILITARY AID TO COLOMBIA
- STOP THE EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS AND FORCED DISPLACEMENTS!
- FREE COLOMBIA'S POLITICAL PRISONERS!
You can sign the petition by going to:
McCain's visit to Colombia
The Colombia Action Network is issuing the following call for protests at John McCain's campaign events and at the Republican National Convention, September 1-4 in St. Paul, MN. McCain arrived in Colombia on Tuesday and is promoting his close relationship to death squad leader Colombian President Uribe as a campaign issue. Colombia Free Trade Agreement slammed
Meredith Aby, a leader of the Colombia Action Network slammed the Bush administration's Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia stating, "We should oppose the Free Trade Agreement with Colombia because it is an attempt by Bush to promote corporate interests at the expense of the working people of Colombia. Colombia is already the most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. The U.S. has spent billions of dollars supporting the repressive Colombian government which sponsors death squads. These death squads kill and attack trade union organizers and anyone else who questions Colombian President Uribe's right-wing agenda. This free trade deal would be like adding fuel to a fire."
Ecuador sues Colombia over anti-drug spraying
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador said on Monday it had sued Colombia in international court over drug crop fumigation along its frontier in reaction to a Colombian raid that killed a rebel leader across the border earlier this month.
Colombia solidarity leaders condemn Reyes killing
By staff, Fight Back News, March 2008
http://fightbacknews.org/2008/03/colombiasolidarity.htm
Several leaders of the U.S. movement in solidarity with the Colombian people condemned the March 1 killing of Raúl Reyes, the main spokesperson for the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Reyes was murdered in Ecuador by Colombian troops with U.S. assistance.
