Delegations

Upon returning from their August 2009 solidarity delegation to Colombia, students and trade unionists from Colombia Action Network and Campaign for Labor Rights are giving media interviews and touring campuses, trade union halls, and churches across the country to spread the message of solidarity with the Colombi

The US State Department is not cooperating with the Colombian prosecution of Chiquita for their use of paramilitary death squads to repress union organizing of banana workers.  The Colombia Action Network delegation in 2006 met with union organizers in Santa Marta who described the severe level of intimidation & harassment union members face from paramilitaries who are hired by US corporations like Chiquita.  For more information you can check out the links below.  Please call the US State Department at 202-647-4000 and demand that the US not cover up Chiquita's bloody role in Colombia. 

Between May 12th and May 20th, over 150,000 Colombian campesinos (peasant farmers) of African, indigenous, and mestizo descent shut down the Pan-American Highway across southwestern Colombia. This mass mobilization (which was also a general strike, and which was accompanied by demonstrations of solidarity within cities in the region) was organized by the Popular Unity Process of Southwest Colombia, a regional coalition of campesino associations, labor unions, and other progressive groups.

U.S. anti-war activists traveled to Colombia in July on a human rights delegation organized by the Colombia Action Network. The delegation met with trade unions, peasant farmer associations and student organizations. FENSUAGRO (Federación Nacional Sindical Unitaria Agropecuaria, or the National Federation of Agricultural Farming Unions), Colombia’s national federation of peasants, hosted the U.S. activists. The delegation visited rural regions and documented the living conditions of Colombian peasants.