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Movements resist repression, corporate take-over<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt"><SPAN
class=453300718-09052006> </SPAN>Public Meeting</SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 23pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">7.30pm<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thursday 8 June</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">Function
Room,</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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</SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">Spital</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
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<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Hill</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Plaza</st1:PlaceType></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
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</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
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Spital Hill</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">S3</SPAN><SPAN
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align=center><SPAN class=453300718-09052006><FONT
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=453300718-09052006> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt">with</SPAN></I><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'"> Jorge
Aramburo, Arcenides Candelo & Maria <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Valencia</st1:country-region></st1:place> from <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Proceso de Comunidades Negras</I> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Black Communities Process)<FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=453300718-09052006> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><BR
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Members
of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Proceso de Comunidades Negras</I>
(PCN) are to visit <st1:place w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place> as part of a
European tour. They want the world to know of the violence and injustice
suffered by <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Colombia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s poor majority, especially
black and indigenous peoples, of their resistance and of their determination to
achieve social justice and protect nature.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Afro-Colombians,
a fifth of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Colombia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’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. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 8.2pt 6pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Afro-Colombians
figure disproportionately among <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Colombia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s 3 million internal
refu</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">gees.
Many PCN activists and leaders have been assassinated, a fate met by <SPAN
style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line">thousands of Colombian trade unionists, students
and community activists </SPAN>e<SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line">ach
year.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 8.2pt 0pt 0cm; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Please
make sure that Jorge, Arcenides & Maria receive a warm welcome to <st1:place
w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place>. Come and hear how, in face of great odds, their
struggle continues, and discuss how we can make a
difference!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV><SPAN lang=EN-US
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Eras Demi ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Colombia</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN
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Solidarity Campaign, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">PO Box
8446</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">N17 6NZ</st1:PostalCode></st1:address></SPAN><SPAN
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href="http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk</SPAN></A><SPAN
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