[pagan-magik] FW: International Forum on the Coca Leaf

[raga woods]

>From: agustin guzman <kollasuyu at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: kollasuyu at yahoo.com
>To: raga_woods at hotmail.com
>Subject: International Forum on the Coca Leaf
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:13:30 -0800 (PST)
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>Dear friends:
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>Comunidad Tawantinsuyu, a non-profit organization dedicated to promote the 
>practice of natural health techniques linked to Traditional Indigenous 
>Wisdom, is organizing an event named “A Week of Peace with Coca”  with the 
>intention of creating a space for reflection, dialogue and 
>consensus-building in respect to this Andean natural resource, based on the 
>revaluation of its nutritional, cultural, social and sacred aspects.
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>This Forum will gather academic specialists, representatives of consumer 
>countries, businessmen, producers and traditional healers, with the aim of 
>propitiating a broad exchange of information on medical, environmental, 
>cultural, industrial and sacred aspects regarding the use of the Coca Leaf, 
>contributing in this way to the development of sane and realistic policies 
>within the Andean region.  The International Forum on the Coca Leaf will 
>take place at the historical Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in 
>Lima, Perú, from April 4th to 8th, 2005.  Its main objectives are:
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>v     Sensitize public opinion and institutions towards the traditional, 
>medical and nutritional use of the Coca Leaf.
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>v     Provide information based on the same performers’ research and 
>proposals and avoid present distortion which affects the dignity of Coca 
>producers and traditional consumers.
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>v     Provide information on research in medicine, nutrition, biology, 
>social sciences and other fields related to the cultivation and tradition 
>of the Coca Leaf.
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>v     Promote the use of the Coca Leaf.
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>v     Promote industrialization and commercialization of the Coca Leaf.
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>As you know, the Coca Leaf, considered as a sacred plant by all our 
>cultures is being looked at as a “devilish” plant basically due to its use 
>by narcoterrorism, not allowing the authorities, academic specialists and 
>society in general, to be able to see its immense nutritional and healing 
>benefits and that still nowadays millions of people in the Andes base their 
>spirituality on it.
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>Herein we would like to inform you about this important event and at the 
>same  request your collaboration in spreading word in order to obtain 
>voluntary contributions to help us make it a reality.  Any contribution, 
>even the smallest, is welcomed.
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>For more information about the Forum, please visit:
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>http://www.comunidadtawantinsuyu.org/coca
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>We would appreciate you visit the following web sites to have a better idea 
>regarding our Coca Leaf.
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>http://www.akhulli.com
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>http://www.cocamuseum.com
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>http://www.mamacoca.org
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>http://www.kuychiwasi.org
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>http://www.lamolina.edu.pe/investigacion/cocachasqui/
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>http://qollasuyu.indymedia.org/en/2004/05/783.shtml
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>http://www.ecoportal.net/content/view/full/31751
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>We are grateful for your support
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>Agustín Guzmán
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>Ong Comunidad Tawantinsuyu
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>Calle Gama C2, Urbanización Juan XXIII
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>San Borja, Lima 41, Perú
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>Tel. (51.1) 226.3044 / 224.2789
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>Email:  info at comunidadtawantinsuyu.org
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>Página web:  www.comunidadtawantinsuyu.org
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