By Charlotte Melly, FOR Colombia Team Member Elements of the Colombian peace process that begins October 8 in Oslo indisputably distinguish these negotiations from prior attempts to put an end to Colombia’s five decade-long conflict. The insistence on learning from...
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Threats Against Cauca Indigenous Communities Continue
September 2012 - We reported in July on the Nasa indigenous mobilization to collectively evict armed groups from their territories in the southwestern Cauca department. In dramatic actions, unarmed Nasa indigenous guards carried soldiers from a post on a sacred site,...
Reflections from FOR Colombia peace accompaniers
Posted by FOR Colombia Monday, September 10, 2012, 6:02pm
Stepping up your nonviolence: volunteer and training opportunities
By FOR “Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. (based on “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence” from Stride Toward Freedom) Join the FOR Colombia Peace Team “I’ve been doing political work or solidarity work for most of my life, and...
Winds of Peace in Colombia and the Fate of Paramilitary Structures
By Susana Pimiento On August 27, the buzz about the peace talks between the Colombian government and the leftist FARC guerrillas grew exponentially, as Telesur reported early in the morning that an initial agreement has been reached to start a dialogue that would...
GM Workers Hunger Strike Leads to Negotiation
By Emily Schmitz Bogota, Colombia — In neat, black hand-written letters is a homemade sign, posted outside the United States embassy, which reads: ASOTRECOL — protesting General Motors 373 days since August 1, 2011. It has counted each day the Association of Injured...
Urgent action for safety of a Colombia Peace Community
By FOR Threatening phone calls. Illegal detentions. And a family’s home burned down. That’s what members of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community in Colombia have had to face just in the past month. Join us in calling on the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia to demand a...
Indigenous Nasa Resist Militarization in Cauca
By FOR Colombia Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 1:52am by Gina Spigarelli On July 11, the indigenous Nasa of Cauca, Colombia began confronting armed groups face to face and peacefully asking them to leave Nasa territories. They removed police trenches from the urban center...