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ACERCA, a project of Action for Social and Ecological Justice (ASEJ), is a Coordinating Committee member of the National Colombia Mobilization. At this moment we have 3 people in jail from our organization plus many close friends. We are currently helping with support on-site and in our office for those arrested. We released the following to the national media:
For Immediate Media Release March 24, 2003
Contact: Anne Petermann (802) 863-0571
Mobile on-site: Doyle Canning (802) 279-0985
Eleven Arrests in Sikorsky Protest Against War in Colombia and Iraq
Approximately 80 More Arrested in front of Hartford, CT Federal Building
Hartford, CT--Eleven activists were arrested this morning in an anti-war protest targeting the makers of the Blackhawk attack helicopters that are being used in Iraq and Colombia. They are currently being held on charges of criminal trespass and disorderly conduct. Bail was set at $5000.
After the Sikorsky arrests two busses were used by authorities to transport dozens arrested at the Hartford Federal Building in a related action. Both actions occurred on the heels of an anti-war march that drew over three thousand people in Hartford yesterday.
At 8 a.m. today dozens of activists dressed as blood-soaked peasants staged a "die-in" at the corporate headquarters of United Technologies Corporation (UTC)/Sikorsky in Hartford, CT, demanding an "end to corporate terror in Colombia" as part of the National Mobilization on Colombia.
On the street outside UTC headquarters, Jason Ford from Action for Social and Ecological Justice (ASEJ) said, "The U.S. Congress is doing it's best to make sure UTC's profits soar while the people and land of Colombia and Iraq are destroyed by Blawkhawks. Now, more than ever, it is crucial that we stand for peace in Colombia, Iraq and all parts of the world. We must point towards the true causes of war--an utterly insane attempt at empire building, corporate greed and U.S. leaders willing to compromise democracy for the sake of profit while endangering all life on Earth."
According to the Center for Public Integrity, UTC, of which Sikorsky is a subsidiary, spent a total of $8,431,443 lobbying Congress and the administration on Colombian issues. UTC has received over $400 million to provide Blackhawk helicopters to be used as a part of the escalating violence suffered by the Colombian people and are at this moment being used in the U.S. administration's 'blitzkrieg' attack on Iraq.
Since Colombia became the third largest recipient of US foreign aid in the world, political murders and displacement have doubled. The Colombian security forces and paramilitaries together are responsible for 84% of all political killings and forced disappearances, according to Human Rights Watch.
The Colombia Mobilization is a national coalition of over one hundred organizations and individuals working to transform U.S. policy toward Colombia and the Andean region. The Colombia Mobilization is committed to peace and justice in Colombia and argues that the U.S. economic and military policy towards Colombia has increased violence there.
At least three persons with Action for Social and Ecological Justice and ACERCA were arrested in the Sikorsky action.
Sponsors include: Witness for Peace/New England, New Hampshire Peace Action, Colombia Action/CT, Solidaridad Colombia, Hartford Catholic Worker, ACERCA, School of the Americas Watch/RI, CT Conference of the United Church of Christ, Witness for Peace/Mid Atlantic, Efficacy, Cuba Coalition/Hartford and others.
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ASEJ
Action for Social and Ecological Justice
P.O. Box 57, Burlington, VT 05402 USA
(802) 863-0571 Mobile: (802) 598-8374
(802) 864-8203 Fax
http://www.asej.org
ACERCA (Action for Community and Ecology in the Regions of Central America), the GE Trees Campaign and Northeast Links are projects of the Action for Social & Ecological Justice (ASEJ) collective.
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