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Stop bombing Colombia ! |
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by Chgo. Anti-war
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21 Feb 2002
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Stop bombing Colombia's zone for dialog |
EMERGENCY ALERT! Protest Colombian Military Invasion of Zone of Dialogue
Date: 2/21/2002 9:52:23 PM Central Standard Time
STOP BOMBING COLOMBIA’S ZONE FOR DIALOGUE! On Thurs., Feb. 21, the Colombian
government broke off peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) -- and immediately the Colombian military and the U.S.
generals who direct Colombia’s armed forces began bombing and military
repression in the region.
PROTEST AT THE COLOMBIAN CONSULATE
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002, at 5:00 PM
500 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
The protest will call for an end to bombing in Colombia's Zone for Dialogue,
will protest Pastrana's cancellation of peace talks -- and call for an end to
the U.S. government's Plan Colombia.
BACKGROUND: On Thursday, February 21, 2002, the Colombian Government of
Pastrana broke off peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC). Pastrana, and the U.S. Generals who direct Colombia’s
Military, began attacking the demilitarized Zone. Pilots bombed 85 locations
within the Zone for Dialogue. This Zone, established to facilitate peace
talks, has been the most peaceful part of Colombia because the Colombian Army
and their Paramilitary death squads have not operated there. No longer. Plan
Colombia has come to the Zone.
The U.S. directed Plan Colombia spends $2.1 billion of U.S. taxpayer money on
deadly fumigations and a dirty war against the people’s movements. The U.S.
fumigation campaign has only pushed more poor peasants to support the FARC
and their demands for economic and social justice. The Paramilitary death
squads now kill a trade unionist every other day for demanding better wages,
work conditions, and a just society.
The demilitarized Zone has been threatened numerous times in the last few
months as the U.S. "war on terrorism" has been directed at the people's
struggle in Colombia. The U.S. State Department announced a new
counter-insurgency effort last month. Now U.S. corporate oil interests, like
Occidental Oil, are protected by Plan Colombia. The Bush-Cheney White House,
following the Plan Colombia created by Clinton and Gore, want war, war, and
more war. The Colombian people’s blood will flow to guarantee U.S. oil
profits.
Stop U.S. intervention! Stop Plan Colombia! Join the Colombia Solidarity
Committee in an Emergency Demonstration.
PROTEST AT THE COLOMBIAN CONSULATE
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002, at 5:00 PM
500 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Call Tom Burke at 773-583-2749 for more info. In coordination with the
Committee for a New Colombia in San Francisco, the Anti-War Committee of
Minneapolis, and the Colombia Action Committee and International Action
Center of New York. |
