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CATEGORIES:colombia,indigenous,latin_america,social_struggles,solidarity
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Indigenous minga arrives in london!</strong></p>\n
 <p>"My very wise father used to say &lsquo\;when<br />we have to cry we 
 will do it together\,<br />together we will feel the pain\, we <br />don
 't cry like cowards\, we resist' " <br /><i>Aida Quilcu&eacute\;</i></p>
 \n<p><strong>PUBLIC MEETING</strong></p>\n<p>Saturday 26th September<br 
 />3pm -7pm <br />Bolivar Hall\, 56 Grafton Way\,<br />London W1T 5DL<br 
 />(Euston and Warren Street tube\, Victoria line closed \, Northern line
  is running)</p>\n<p>Guest speaker: AIDA QUILCU&Eacute\;\, a spokesperso
 n of the Minga of Indigenous and Popular Resistance\, champion for the r
 ights of the indigenous communities in the Cauca Valley\, Colombia. <br 
 /><i>With &lsquo\;La Minga' film show\, plus solidarity panel with Polo 
 Democratico Alternativo UK and movements of Coordinadora Latinoamericana
 .</i></p>\n<p><strong>COMMUNITY SOCIAL WITH MUSIC</strong><br />Sunday 2
 7th September<br />6pm - 10pm <br />Telefono de la Esperanza<br />Unit 7
 \, Fairfax House<br />Overton Road\, Brixton<br />London\, SW9 7JR<br />
 (Stockwell tube\, Loughborough Junction rail\, Victoria line closed\, No
 rthern line is running. Buses 36\, 436\, 185\, P5\, 133\, 59\, 159\, 3\,
  415)<br /> <i>..bring food to share</i></p>\n<p>The indigenous peoples 
 have had enough\, they will not put up with false promises\, lies and tr
 ickery any more. They are out on the streets fighting: to &lsquo\;libera
 te Mother Earth' from the destructive alliance between multinational cor
 porations and the Colombian rich\; and for a dignified future for their 
 children and their communities. They are a moral force rising from below
  to reclaim what is justly theirs\, life itself.</p>\n<p><strong>Minga o
 f Indigenous and Popular Resistance</strong></p>\n<p>The indigenous peop
 les' fight is being carried out through participative mass mobilisation 
 - the Minga of Indigenous and Popular Resistance. In October last year\,
  with a special focus against the misnamed &lsquo\;free trade agreements
 ' with the US\, Canada and the EU\, and resisting waves of riot police a
 ssaults\, the Minga blocked the Pan American Highway for ten days\, foll
 owing on with two 40\,000 strong marches over hundreds of miles that end
 ed in the capital city\, Bogot&aacute\;.  This committed and democratic 
 movement is inspiring other impoverished\, exploited and excluded sector
 s to unite in a common process\, such that today the Minga is indeed bec
 oming the cornerstone of popular resistance to Uribe's regime.</p>\n<p>U
 ribe has launched a ferocious campaign of repression and persecution. Ai
 da's husband Edwin was assassinated in an army ambush on 16th December 2
 008\, and on 12th May 2009 her 12 year old daughter narrowly escaped an 
 attack by four armed gunmen. These incidents are part of a pattern of de
 adly\, genocidal\, violence\; 85 indigenous people have been assassinate
 d so far this year alone. As has become notorious for trade unionists\, 
 state terror against indigenous people is carried out in complete impuni
 ty: nobody is found responsible even in the most blatant cases.</p>\n<p>
 Meanwhile governments like that in the UK continue to foster the illusio
 n of a Colombian democracy. Nothing is further from the truth\, in a cou
 ntry where four million people have been forced from their homes\, and t
 ens of millions more are like them in destitution. The Colombia Solidari
 ty Campaign delegation that visited this summer can testify that mining\
 , water and timber corporations are planning to drive still more indigen
 ous\, campesino and African-descendant communities off their lands.</p>\
 n<p>We have entered a new period where the outcome of events in Colombia
  and its neighbours matter on a world scale. The US plan for seven more 
 air force and navy installations in Colombia reinforces its capacity to 
 target and eliminate movements or governments that stand up to imperiali
 sm. The new deployment poses a threat to the security of the entire Lati
 n American continent\, a warning against the popular resistance that is 
 on the rise.</p>\n<p>The situation is coming to a head. Expect direct ac
 tion across the Andean region this 12th October\, the 517th anniversary 
 of Colombus's &lsquo\;discovery' of the Americas (a date that is marked 
 by the indigenous movement not as a discovery but as the Day of Disgrace
 \, the start of the colonial conquest that continues still in modern for
 m).</p>\n<p>It is time to make the Minga visible here too\, to internati
 onalise its word and establish an active support network. We invite you 
 to come and learn at first-hand the views of the indigenous movement\, t
 o join us in making solidarity protests around 12th October and help fas
 hion an ongoing campaign of mobilisation and accompaniment until the Min
 ga's demands are met.</p>\n<p>Colombia Solidarity Campaign\, PO 8446\, L
 ondon N17 6NZ.<br /> info@colombiasolidarity.org.uk    www.colombiasolid
 arity.org.uk</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>
URL:http://london.indymedia.org/events/2467
SUMMARY:Aida Quilcué – walking the word
LOCATION:<p><strong>PUBLIC MEETING</strong><br />Saturday 26th September 
 3pm -7pm <br /> Bolivar Hall\, 56 Grafton Way\, London W1T 5DL</p>\n<p><
 strong>COMMUNITY SOCIAL WITH MUSIC</strong><br />Sunday 27th September 6
 pm - 10pm<br /> Telefono de la Esperanza\, Unit 7\, Fairfax House\, Over
 ton Road\, Brixton\, London\, SW9 7JR</p>
COMMENT:More info at http://london.indymedia.org
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