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DESCRIPTION:A tour featuring Nidia Quintero, General Secretary of FENSUAGRO, 
 Colombia’s largest federation of agricultural workers unions.\n\nOver a 
 year ago, peace accords were signed in Colombia that officially ended 52 
 years of civil war. But there are powerful enemies of the peace who want to 
 undermine the accords any way they can.\n\nThe transnational corporations 
 and big landowners are trying to stop reforms that benefit rural 
 communities. They are terrorizing rural, indigenous, and Afro Colombian 
 families and forcing them to leave their land.\n\nColombia remains the most 
 dangerous country in the world for unionists. The most repressed labor 
 organization in the country is FENSUAGRO, the National Federation of 
 Unified Agricultural Workers Unions.\n\nNidia Quintero, General Secretary 
 of FENSUAGRO, comes from a farming family that was displaced because of the 
 armed conflict from the department of Cauca. She relocated to Putumayo, 
 where she and her family became community and labor organizers. Fifteen of 
 her fellow organizers were assassinated for their activities between 2000 
 and 2004, including her husband, a union leader, and her 19-year-old son, 
 who was also active in the union. In 2008 Nidia was chosen to be 
 FENSUAGRO’s Secretary for Rural Women. In 2010 she was elected to 
 FENSUAGRO’s execu- tive committee.\n\nOver 1,500 of FENSUAGRO’S members 
 have been assassinated since its founding in 1976. Meanwhile, promises for 
 rural development made by the government in the peace accords have not 
 materialized.\n\nIn fact, the Trump administration is pushing the Colombian 
 government to abandon those commitments. It is of vital importance for the 
 Colombian people and all Latin America that the peace accords be 
 honored.\n\nWe invite you to come hear Nidia Quintero and help build 
 popular and labor solidarity in the U.S. with rural Colombian workers and 
 for the peace effort. Her tour is supported by the San Francisco Labor 
 Council.\n\n$5 to $20 donation requested. No one turned away for lack of 
 funds. \n\nSponsored in the Bay Area by the ANSWER Coalition and Alliance 
 for Global Justice. Call 415-821-6545 to endorse. \n\nCo-sponsors: Alianza 
 Hondureña USA-No. Cal; Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition; 
 Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador—Bay Area; Cuba and 
 Venezuela Solidarity Committee; Tony Gonzales, AIM West*, Party for 
 Socialism and Liberation; Task Force on the Americas; Workers World Party. 
 *For ID purposes only.\n\nTo learn how to support efforts for Peace in 
 Colombia, contact James Jordan at workertoworker@gmail.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/21/18807577.php
SUMMARY:"Colombia: The struggle for lasting peace" w/ union leader Nidia Quintero
LOCATION:2969 Mission St., at 26th St.\nSan Francisco 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/21/18807577.php
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