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Day of Action - April 20, 2009
On Monday, April 20 people in a half-dozen cities across the US will creatively and publicly present 4000 paper cut-out dolls, each one representing 1000 of Colombia's 4 million displaced people, to governmental representatives.
These symbolic actions, intended to raise the profile of Colombia's crisis, will take place in New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Colombia has now surpassed Sudan as having the worst internal displacement crisis in the world. The crisis has been exacerbated by over 6 billion dollars of US aid to Colombia since 2000, 80% of which has been to the military.
To participate in this colorful grassroots mobilization, to stand up and speak out against the daily displacement of thousands of Colombians, and to urge our leaders to chart a new policy towards Colombia, we encourage you to:
We encourage people to send postcards and emails.
For more information about the action happening in the following cities, contact:
Portland,
Oregon
Beth Poteet:wfpsw@witnessforpeace.org
San Francisco
Liza Smith:liza@igc.org
Los Angeles
Tanya Snyder:wfpsw@witnessforpeace.org
Chicago
Danielle Wegman:DWegman@crln.org
New York
Martha Hauze:margatoro@aol.com
Washington,
DC
Ben Beachy:wfpma@witnessforpeace.org