July 20-22, 2001, in San Salvador, El Salvador, CAN activists will join hundreds of activists from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America in building an international anti-intervention and solidarity movement with the people of Colombia. Read for more information, or check out the conference website at  http://www.geocities,com/eventopaz/

Plan Colombia is the latest in a long line of direct US military intervention in Latin America which includes the destruction of the Salvador Allende government in Chile, continuous aggression against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, direct participation in the wars in Central America, and the continued hostility against Cuba. This intervention constitutes a flagrant violation of international law. It also violates self-determination and threatens peace and stability in the region. Plan Colombia is directed primarily against the civilian population and has the objective of destroying or neutralizing the widespread resistance to the neoliberal restructuring of the economies of Colombia and all of Latin America.

During El Salvador's civil war in the 1980's, international solidarity played a critical role in opposing US intervention and in supporting the Salvadoran people's struggle for social and economic justice. Now, the people of El Salvador are extending their solidarity to the people of Colombia and call on people of conscience around the world to join them in saying, "No to Plan Colombia!"

International Host Committee: José Saramago, Nobel Literature Laureate, Portugal; Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Laureate, Bishop Pagura, President of the World Council of Churches, Argentina; Professor Heinz Dieterich,
President of the Forum for the Emancipation and Identity of Latin America, Mexico; Mumia Abu-Jamal, Political Prisoner, USA; Doctor Ramsey Clark, Former US Attorney General, USA; Professor Noam Chomsky, MIT, USA; Professor James Petras,
New York State University, USA; Professor R. James Sacouman, Acadia University of Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor Henry Veltmeyer, St. Mary's University of Halifax, Canada; Ahmed Benbela, Ex-President of Algiers, President of the Arab Parliament, Algiers.

Organized by: el Comité Salvadoreño de Solidaridad con las Luchas del Pueblo Colombiano / Salvadoran Committee in Solidarity with the Struggles of the Colombian People: FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front), FUNDASPAD
(Salvadoran Foundation for Democracy and Local Development), CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador)

Registration cost for US participants: $100US

For more information, contact the organizing committee:
Fax (503)260-8655; phone (503)260-8998;
email  eventopaz@hotmail.com;  http://www.geocities,com/eventopaz/
or by mail Colonia Miramonte, Calle Colima #827, San Salvador, El Salvador, Centro América.

In the U.S., you can contact CISPES: 212-229-1290;  cispesnatl@people-link.net;
 http://www.cispes.org

The new posting may be found on the web at:
 http://www.actioncolombia.org/news/992553536

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