[g8-sheffield] Colombian social movement reps to visit Sheffield - Thursday June 8

[John Smith]

Colombia: Social Movements resist repression, corporate take-over

 

 

 Public Meeting:  7.30pm  Thursday 8 June 

Function Room, Spital Hill Plaza, 68 Spital Hill, S3

  with Jorge Aramburo, Arcenides Candelo & Maria Valencia from Proceso de
Comunidades Negras  (Black Communities Process) 


 

Members of Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN) are to visit Sheffield as
part of a European tour. They want the world to know of the violence and
injustice suffered by Colombia’s poor majority, especially black and
indigenous peoples, of their resistance and of their determination to
achieve social justice and protect nature.

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

HYPERLINK
"http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/"www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk   For
local info, contact 07973 866 323 
 
 
 
 

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