BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18825823 SEQUENCE:18974470 CREATED:20190830T012900Z DESCRIPTION:People’s Travel Advisory on Colombia, As part of the Call for International Actions for September 27, 2019 we will picket the Colombian Consulate in San Francisco.\nJoin Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Piedad Córdoba, and Noam Chomsky and sign the People’s Travel Advisory on Colombia: https://afgj.salsalabs.org/peoplestraveladvisoryforcolombia/index.html\n\nPlease email us to endorse our local action.\n\nThe below organizations and individuals call on the international community, to unite with us to organize diverse activities including: demonstrations, vigils, educational and cultural events, and other actions for Peace in Colombia for September 27, the “International Day for Tourism”, to show the world that Colombia IS NOT a tourist destination, but a place of genocide and repression.\n\nWe issue this People's Travel Advisory because the present administration of President Iván Duque and his mentors, Álvaro Uribe and the U.S. President Donald Trump, have no interest in the construction of a true Peace in Colombia. They do not listen to the people at all!\n\nPeoples Travel Advisory for Colombia:\n\nThe Colombian government has launched many campaigns to change the image of the country and present it as a safe and fun place for all the family, indeed, a tourist paradise. That is a lie, given that one of the worst human rights crises is in Colombia.\n\nNorth American Coalition for Peace in Colombia: Points of Unity\n \nWE CALL FOR AN END TO THESE CONDITIONS IN COLOMBIA:\n \n1. The Colombian government of Ivan Duque is sabotaging the Peace Accord and its agreements signed between the FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army) and the Colombian government in 2016.\n2. Human rights defenders, social movement leaders (especially among afro and indigenous communities), and former FARC-EP combatants are being assassinated daily by military, police and government backed paramilitary groups with impunity.\n3. Political prisoners and prisoners of war are still in jail under\ndespicable conditions even though the peace accord agreed to their release.\n4. President Duque and his mentor, Alvaro Uribe make every legal\nand illegal effort to break and make dysfunctional the new peace court (the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, JEP).\n5. The Duque government, along with the U.S., has supported the\nextradition of the Peace negotiators from the FARC-EP. \n6. Colombia uses its territory as a launching pad for U.S.\ninterference in and aggressions against Venezuela. \n7. Colombian aggression toward the people of Venezuela is the same as the aggression it uses toward the people and the popular movements of Colombia.\n8. Colombia acts in the name of the U.S. by creating a massive\nmedia and political attack on Venezuela throughout Latin America.\n \nU.S. ROLE IN COLOMBIA - END U.S. IMPERIALISM IN THE REGION\n \n1. The U.S. has militarized Colombia in order to invade any area or\ncountry that opposes U.S. corporate policy. It also supports the repression of popular movements within Colombia.\n2. The U.S. undermines the Colombian Peace Accord of 2016.\n3. The U.S. has readied Colombia as the main political and military enemy of Venezuela.\n4. The U.S. supports all of the repressive policies of the right\nwing government of Ivan Duque. It does not support the Peace Accord.\n5. The U.S. demands the extradition of left Colombian leaders to the U.S. for trial. The Farc-EP leader, Simon Trinidad, has been a political prisoner in the U.S. for 15 years.\n6. The U.S. arranges the extraditions of right-wing narco-traffickers and paramilitary leaders, in order to cover up investigations into their ties with Colombian political and business officials as well as their responsibilities for grave human rights violations. \n7. The U.S. government ignores the point of the peace agreement about crop substitution and has pursued violent forced eradication of coca by the Colombian Armed Forces. This has resulted in many deaths and even whole scale massacres. Presently the U.S. insists on the use of the carcinogenic glyphosate (RoundUp Ultra) to aerial spray coca growing communities causing massive displacement. \n8. The U.S. has militarized Colombia in order to invade any area or country that opposes U.S. corporate policy. It also supports the repression of popular movements within Colombia.\n9. The United States government keeps the FARC-EP on the State Department terrorist list. The peace accords are the law of the land in Colombia. The FARC-EP no longer exists as a guerrilla army and has been replaced by the new and legal political party, the Revolutionary Alternative Common Force (FARC). \n10. The U.S. has spent more than $12 billion dollars to support the military and state institutions of repression in Colombia. \n11. The U.S. is the political and military author of the civil war in Colombia for over 52 years. The Pentagon’s Yarborough Commission even urged Colombia in 1962 to use tactics of terror and to organize paramilitary and military assaults against popular movements in rural Colombia. \n\nTherefore, September 27, at Colombian embassies, consulates, and offices of tourism, we will observe “International Day for Tourism” with the People's Travel Advisory and international demands for Peace in Colombia.\n\nOur message is: Colombia will not be safe for tourism, neither for the Colombia people, until the right-wing violence against the peace is terminated and Colombia becomes a land at peace.\n\nINDIVIDUAL endorsers - (list constantly being updated) See organizations below:\nAdolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobe Prize Winner (Argentina)\nNoam Chomsky, Author and international peace advocate (United States)\nFormer Senator Piedad Córdoba, founder of Colombians for Peace (Colombia)\nDaniela Gonzalez, People’s Human Rights Observatory (International coalition with headquarters in Oaxaca Mexico)\nBob Brown, All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party-GC (International)\nNidia Quintero, Treasurer for FENSUAGRO (National Unified Federation of Agricultural Workers Unions – Colombia)\nRodrigo Vargas Becerra, Director de Comité Permanente de Derechos Humanos, capítulo Cali (Colombia)\nHéctor Marino Carabali, Consejo Comunitario Cuenca Río Timba Marilopez de Buenos Aires Cauca (Colombia)\nStella Calloni, Journalist and correspondent for Mexico City’s La Jornada newspaper (Argentina)\nCarlos Romainville, Director of the Alpha and Omega Movement (Peru)\nAnahit Aharonian, Agronomist and ex-political prisoner (Uruguay)\nAna Andrés Ablanedo, Human Rights Defender (Spain)\nVictor Mayorga Miranda Former Ambassador to Cuba and Congress Person (Perú)\nDr. Fernando Cebamanos, President Frente Amplio por la Democracia de Panamá (Broad Popular Front of Panama)\nDan Kovalik, Human Rights Defender and Author (United States)\nAlice Loaiza, Marcha Patriótica, California Chapter (United States-Colombia)\nBanbose Shango, National Network on Cuba (United States)\nJames Jordan, Alliance for Global Justice (United States)\nRaquel Mogollón, Camino Común (Colombia-United States)\n\nORGANIZATIONS (list constantly being updated):\n- Permanent Committee for Human Rights (CPDH – Colombia)\n- People’s Human Rights Observatory (International coalition with headquarters in Oaxaca Mexico)\n- Alliance For Global Justice (United States)’\n- Answer Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism – United States)\n- Fundación Lazos de Dignidad (Links of Dignity Foundation – Colombia)\n- Coalition Against Foreign U.S. Military Bases (United States) \n- Task Force on the Americas (United States)\n- Peoples Alliance - Bay Area (United States)\n- Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (United States)\n- Camino Común (Colombia – United States)\n- Communist Workers League (United States)\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/29/18825823.php SUMMARY:People's Travel Advisory on Colombia LOCATION:Consulate General of Colombia\n595 Market St\nSan Francisco, CA 94105 URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/29/18825823.php DTSTART:20190927T190000Z DTEND:20190927T200000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR