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Dublin - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Solidarity with Colombian social movements
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Tuesday November 11, 2008 00:10 by Grupo Raíces - Grúpa Fréamhacha
Public talk where participants in an Irish delegation to a Colombian conference of social movements will let the public know of the current situation on Colombia, of the efforts and struggle of social organisations to defend their rights and of ways to support and show active solidarity with the Colombian people. Great changes are happening in Colombia, where an appalling war of terror against trade unionists, indigenous peoples, and communities has left a people caught up in unimaginable violence. Chain saw massacres, forced disappearances and rape, have been a persistent scourge of the people and villages through 30 years of political violence. Now the government, with its gruesome links to paramilitarism is being challenged by the bulk of society and even in the Colombian courts. This has opened a space for a social movements - a broad coalition which gathers trade unions, peasant organisations, Indigenous communities, Afro-Colombians’ movements, women's groups and grassroots Christian communities to come together under the banner of the Coalition of Social Movements (CoMoSoc), to raise a world - wide cry for an end to sixty years of slaughter. |
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Jump To Comment: 1I travelled to Bogota, Colombia, via Madrid, on Sunday 12 October, on behalf of the Irish Colombian Solidarity Group based in Dublin (Grupo Raíces -Grúpa Fréamhacha) to attend the congress of a coalition of human rights groups (COMOSOC). A few days later Michael Dowling, trade unionist (SIPTU), followed. Even on the 10 hour flight from Madrid to Bogota, I experienced, the warm friendship of Colombians. As I was dressed in clerical clothes they felt a freedom to open up conversation with me and seemed pleased that I was visiting their country. I experienced the same friendship and courtesy from officials at the airport. On the plane were 93 Colombian soldiers in civvies, many of them carrying big teddy bears, obviously presents for their wives or children. From what I understood from one of them they had been in Israel doing a course of training in 'anti-terrorism'.
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