Association for Peace and International Solidarity , ASPAZ
Wednesday 10 February at 20h
With the beginning of 2010, Aspaz continues with one of its most important lines of work: to publicize and disseminate the political and social climate at the moment Colombia.
Since the birth of this organzación, the country of Colombia has been among one of our key work areas and one of our priorities has been visible and create awareness among citizens of Cordoba on the conflict in this town for over 50.
Colombia is going through a tough situation of human rights characterized, among other things, the existence of an authoritarian, undemocratic and fascist with deep features. Álvaro Uribe Vélez and his "Defense Policy and Democratic Security", retain the essential features which came to power, ie, militarism, U.S. interventionism, civil society involvement in the conflict, extermination, the witch hunt or criminalization of social movements and its refusal to humanitarian exchange.
are various weaknesses of the social movement and opposition to it. These include the inability to counter the misinformation promoted by the mass media that promote military output in the consciousness of the Colombian people and in the case of young people build an environment conducive to forgetting, impunity, easy culture and rattled, individualism and the promotion of violence in the daily exercise of resolution youth conflicts.
This acute situation requires the support and solidarity of the international community in order to generate pressure measurements to the national government to respect the right to life and all democratic freedoms and rights young people, trade unionists, students, indigenous people and the Colombian people in general.
For this reason, Aspaz working on initiatives to generate support for and solidarity with young people and the Colombian people, launching this summer 2010, the first visit to Colombia. A humanitarian visit and check which denounce the situation of Human Rights, driving from our environment and country, actions to support a negotiated solution to the social and armed conflict in Colombia.
To understand the context in which lies Colombia and the reality of the conflict on the cross, Aspaz proposed creation of a Working Group born with the idea of \u200b\u200bresponding to many questions that will arise about the Colombian conflict and contribute to the formation of those interested in this reality, culminating in the observation mission to visit Colombia this summer. The participants of the Observation Mission will holding meetings with representatives of students, trade unions, human rights, indigenous, political, etc.
The group would be held between February and June and would carry out approximately two working sessions per month.
Among topics to be discussed at the Working Group include:
1. Historical, social, political and economic development in Colombia
2. Conflict: Origins, agents and consequences
3. Democratic Security: Uribe plans
4. Rights Violation Humans and their impact on the student movement.
5. The conflict experienced by indigenous
6. The woman inside the conflict in Colombia
7. Peasants and large industrial projects
8. The role of multinationals in the Colombian reality.
For the organization and implementation of this work, ASPAZ Association, invites all those interested, the Planning Meeting to be held on Wednesday February 10, 2010, at 20h in the Social Space Cultural "On the Edge."
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