Meeting: Colombia: Social Movements resist repression, corporate take-over
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Public Meeting: 7.30pm Thursday 8 June
Function Room, Spital Hill Plaza, 68 Spital Hill, S3
(near Burngreave Green)
with Jorge Aramburo, Arcenides Candelo & Maria Valencia from Proceso de Comunidades Negras (Black Communities Process)
Meeting Flyer - application/pdf 50K
Colombia
Afro-Colombians, a fifth of Colombia's 45 million people, are concentrated in the lush and resource-rich lands along its Pacific coast. For years, they've been subjected to cruel repression by right-wing paramilitary forces attempting to clear their land for "development" by local businessmen and foreign investors.
Afro-Colombians figure disproportionately among Colombia's 3 million internal refugees. Many PCN activists and leaders have been assassinated, a fate met by thousands of Colombian trade unionists, students and community activists each year.
Please make sure that Jorge, Arcenides & Maria receive a warm welcome to Sheffield. Come and hear how, in face of great odds, their struggle continues, and discuss how we can make a difference!
Colombia Solidarity Campaign, PO Box 8446, London N17 6NZ
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Homepage:
http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/