COLOMBIA ACTIONS
On Aug. 7, Alvaro Uribe Velez will be inaugurated as
Colombia's next president. Uribe has a bloody history of
support for that country's paramilitary death squads.
Uribe and his masters in Washington are planning to escalate
the war against the people of Colombia, including the rebel
groups, labor unions, students and others. Urged on by the
U.S., Uribe promises to double the size of the Colombian
military and arm it to the teeth with U.S. weapons.
It is now more important than ever that people in the U.S.
build a strong solidarity movement to defend the people of
Colombia and their struggle for peace and social justice.
Opponents of war and racism plan demonstrations in several
cities Aug. 7 to protest Uribe's inauguration and growing U.S.
intervention in Colombia. In San Francisco, the protest will be
held at Powell and Market streets starting at 5:30 p.m. For
more information, contact the Committee for a New Colombia at
(415) 312-9567.
In New York City, protesters will gather from 5 to 7 p.m.
outside the Colombian Embassy on 57th St. between Lexington and
Third avenues.
For more information on the New York protest or actions in
other cities, contact the Committee to Stop U.S. Intervention
in Colombia/International Action Center at (212) 633-6646 or
visit the Web site www.iacenter.org.
Reprinted from the Aug. 8, 2002, issue of
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