WFP -- Educational Resources You Can Use

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Educational Resources You Can Use

videos

The 60 Minutes Good Intentions. Bad Results is a hard-hitting piece on the devastating effects of US-sponsored aerial fumigation in Colombia. $29.98 online in the video section of the CBS Store www.CBS.com The show aired January 13, 2002.
Colombia: The Next Vietnam? Provides photographs, analysis, and commentary on the current situation in Colombia. The 40-minute account includes interviews with human rights workers, military personnel, farmers, labor organizers, religious leaders, Afro-Colombians, and the US Embassy. ($15 from Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, POB 271, Nyack, NY 10960.
Colombia: The State of the Union. Highlights Coca-cola union busting in Colombia. Contact International Labor Rights Fund 202-347-4100, ext. 105
Kajka Ika Colombia: Oil, Indigenous Rights and the War in Colombia. A 10 minute video about the U'wa people of Colombia and their struggle against Occidental Petroleum. $10 donation Contact: email: amazon@amazonwatch.org Subject: Kajka Ika video or call 310-456-9158

speakers

Colombian unionists. Contact Brian Finnegan, AFL-CIO Solidarity Center at 202-778-4500
Luis Alberto Galvis, massacre survivor. Contact Dan Kovalik, USWA at 412-562-2518 or Luis directly (Spanish speakers only), 412-536-1519
Dan Kovalik, Attorney, United Steelworkers of America, The Case Against Coca-cola in Colombia, 412-562-2518

info and updates

Consult the Center for International Policy www.ciponline.org, the Latin America Working Group www.lawg.org, the Washington Office on Latin America www.wola.org and the International Labor Rights Fund http://www.laborrights.org/ for additional resources and legislative updates.
Check Amazon Watch amazon@amazonwatch.org and Global Exchange www.globalexchange.org for Colombia environmental impact information and speaker resources.
Check out School of the Americas Watch www.soaw.org and http://www.starhawk.org/index.html for resources and nonviolence direct action training advice and trainer recommendations.
Check out Witness for Peace www.witnessforpeace.org for the following on-the-ground reports:

The Real Cost of Pipeline Protection in Colombia: Corporate Welfare with Deadly Consequences
An in-depth analysis of the potential consequences of the proposed $98 million in U.S. aid to protect an oil pipeline in the war-torn state of Arauca. Released to Congress in time for the debate on the 2003

The Bojayá Massacre: Escalating Conflict on Colombia's Pacific Coast May 2002. A joint report released by Witness for Peace and the Colombian human rights organization, Justapaz. Provides on-the-ground information from Chocó, the border region with Panamá and site of the recent Bojayá massacre.