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“Relatos entre Cadenas” and “Voces de una Colombia posible” : MPC Invites you to a special Film screening - El MPC te invita a una muestra de Cine muy especial
Movement for Peace in Colombia invites you to watch Mady Samper’s Films and celebrate the power of independent documentary film with us. You will have the opportunity to talk to her about these powerful documentaries and also share with us your interest in Colombia’s political situation.
Come and join us this Thursday (today) june 18.
4312 46th [...]
The MfPiC , Human rights and faith-based Organizations call on President Obama to end “Plan Colombia” and change U.S. Drug Policy.
The Movement for Peace in Colombia and more than 45 other national human rights organizations and faith-based institutions today, released a letter to President Barack Obama calling for a major change in U.S. policy toward Colombia. Responding to the President’s first address to a joint session of Congress-in which he stated the need to ” [...]
The Impact of Plan Colombia in Putumayo: an Ethnography of U.S. Anti-drug Policy
María Clemencia Ramírez
Research Associate and former Director of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History
Discussant:
Desmond Arias
Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
WHEN: Tuesday, February 10, 4PM
WHERE: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9206/9207
365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street)
US foreign policy has been a key factor in shaping [...]
Dying for Coke? - Muriendo por una Coca-Cola?
Colombia, Coca-Cola, and NYU: An Eyewitness Account
Wednesday February 4, 6:30 PM, NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, Room 204
Keynote Speaker: Luis Adolfo Cardona: Former Coca-cola worker and union activist at Coke’s bottling plant in Carepa, Colombia; Witness to assassination of co-worker and SINALTRAINAL union leader Isidro Segundo Gil.
The event will also include presentations [...]
US: Award to Uribe Sends Wrong Message — Estados Unidos: Premio a Uribe transmite un mensaje equivocado
by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International-USA, Center for International Policy, Human Rights First, Latin America Working Group, Refugees International, and the Washington Office on Latin America.
Colombia’s Rights Violations Should Bar Its Leader From Award.
(Washington, DC, January 12, 2009) – US President George W. Bush’s decision to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to President Álvaro [...]
What could be expected? - Que se puede esperar?
Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, will receive the “Medal of Freedom” award by the hands of George W Bush, US president. (See attached article: “Blair to get US Medal of Freedom“) For those of us who have worked in defense of human rights [...]
“The Triumph Of Greed” - El Triunfo de la Avaricia
This is the title of the article that I just read and was published on December 4th by The New Stateman. The author is Clive Dilnot, a professor at New School University in New York.
I almost passed it by. I had read many articles referring to the financial crisis that burdens the US and, as [...]
Humanitarian New York - Nueva York Humanitaria
I was impressed by what I saw yesterday afternoon in Queens: Colombians, several hundreds, organized and enthusiastic, demonstrating in favor of a humanitarian agreement, against the so-called “false positives,” and for all those still held hostage to be liberated by Christmas. The unity of the humanitarian message was nuanced by statements in favor of the [...]
Delay Consideration of Colombia Trade Deal- by Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has held the position since 1993.
Roth was born to a family of German refugees of the Third Reich. He studied at Brown University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts, and at Yale Law School, where he obtained a Juris Doctor.
He worked as a [...]
