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Stop the Cycles of Military and Economic Violence

2008 Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia

April 27 & 28, 2008

Thank you to everyone who made the 2007 Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia a great success. Now is the time to organize for the April 2008 Days. We are expecting even more than the estimated 400 churches who participated in Colombia, the U.S. and Canada in 2007 to join us in 2008. Will your congregation join us?

Click here to get more information and to download our organizing packet and fliers.

For more information, please visit www.peaceincolombia.org.

Representative Grijalva's letter of support for the 2007 Days event in Colombia

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February 28, 2008--
Call for Peace in Colombia--Join the 2008 Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia

February 6, 2008--
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December 13, 2007--
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Background

Militarism	Economic Violence
COSURCA Report on Aerial Fumigation in Cauca Stop the Cycles of Military and Economic Violence Memo to Congress: Five Years of Plan Colombia Putumayo 2004: Four Years of Plan Colombia	Witness for Peace Northwest Delegation Report on Food Security in Nicaragua Faces of Colombia: Who are the Victims of Free Trade? (pdf format) Stop the U.S.-Colombia FTA Before it Starts! Inhuman Economies: What CAFTA and Free Trade Agreements Really Mean Fact Sheet: CAFTA and Women Trade Justice Advocacy Flyer Fact Sheet: Alternatives for the Americas

Take Action!

What are the Cycles of Military and Economic Violence?

Witness for Peace’s commitment to nonviolence and our solidarity with partners in Latin America for more than 20 years has led us to identify the cycles of military and economic violence in the region. Our monitoring presence leads to a keen awareness of the United States role, through complicity and at times even sponsorship, in this violence. U.S. policy motives often serve the larger purpose of securing U.S. military and economic control. Military and economic policies protect U.S. economic interests in this region. Civilians often pay the cost through the loss of decent standards of living, human rights and their very lives. Witness for Peace calls for an end to the brutalities of all kinds of violence toward the civilian populations of the Americas, specifically the cycles of violence found in Colombia.

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