>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: University of Minnesota > > 1. Protest TODAY, Monday, in Michigan > 2. Protest Saturday 9/30 in Toronto > >Please send us announcements of protests you're planning, and we'll try >to help get the word out! - Colombia Action Network. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >====================================================== >PROTEST MONDAY TO CALL ATTENTION TO GORE'S BIG OIL HIPOCRICIES AND THE >PLIGHT OF THE U'WA PEOPLE >======================================================== >THE EVENT: A GATHERING TO CALL ATTENTION TO... > - AL GORE'S HOLDINGS IN OCCIDENTIAL PETROLEUM > - OXY OIL'S COLONIALIST ATTACK ON THE INDIGENOUS U'WA PEOPLE OF >COLOMBIA > - GORE'S POPULIST RHETORICAL HIPOCRICY IN LIGHT OF HIS TUESDAY VISIT TO >UM CAMPUS > >DATE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2000 >PLACE: LOCAL "DEMOCRATIC" HEADQUARTERS, 345 E. LIBERTY ( I think in Ann >Arbor, Michigan.) >TIME: 5:30 PM > >****************** BACKGROUND *********************** >This past Saturday morning, NPR's Weekend Edition carried news of Al >Gore's Friday visit to Pennsylvania, where he spoke with a handpicked >number of laborers concerning a variety of issues. Most notably, he >announced the release of oil from US emergency reserves to drive down >prices in the short run. > >One woman, nearly in tears, explained to Gore that she would barely be >able to make it through the winter with the current fuel prices, and >praised him for the release. > >Gore, demurely consoling her, let her know that he was there to defend >her >and all Americans from the multinational oil corporations, and that our >government was not "by the oil corporations, of the oil corporations, >and >for the oil corporations." > >What Gore *didn't* tell her was about his own holdings in a major >multinational, Occidental (Oxy) Oil, amounting to around half a million >dollars. Or that his father was a former VP of the corporation. Or >that the company has been a major source of campaign funding for both >himself and president Bill Clinton. > >He also failed to mention the years-long campaign on the part of Oxy, >with the muscle of the Colombian army, to oust the indigenous U'Wa (a >name meaning "The Thinking People") from their lands in an attempt to >lay claim to oil reserves there. > >This colonialist pressure may intensify with the recent approval of >"Plan Colombia," a Clinton administration debacle that has dumped >millions of dollars into the South American country, supposedly to >combat drugs. > >Last Tuesday, direct actions at Gore Headquarters in 4 states brought >even more attention to the issue. With the Democratic nominee's >upcoming Tuesday visit to campus, it is time for *us*, in keeping with >the request of the U'Wa and our own passions for justice, truth, and >democracy, to continue the pressure on Gore and force him to confront >and end his hipocricy. > >Organized by the Direct Action Cooperative of Washtenaw County. For more >info, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > NO TO YANKEE INTERVENTION! > NO TO PLAN COLOMBIA! > >DEMONSTRATION: >SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1:00 pm >US CONSULATE, 360 UNIVERSITY AVE., TORONTO. > >In reality, this "Plan" is part of U.S. military strategy to intervene >in Colombia's internal conflict on the side of the Colombian oligarchy, >its state, armed forces and their paramilitary gangs, and to carry out a >US organized counter-insurgency campaign under cover of fighting the >narcotics traffickers. > >"Plan Colombia" will result in more torture, repression, massacres and >forced displacement of the unarmed civilian population by the Colombian >army and right-wing death squads. It will undermine the current peace >negotiations and lead to escalation of the civil war. The planned direct >U.S. military intervention, may even lead to a conflict like the Vietnam >War. > >In Canada, as elsewhere, more and more people are learning the truth >about the political conflict in Colombia and the growing danger of >increased U.S. imperialist intervention. On September 30th, >demonstrations will be held around the world to protest Plan Colombia. >Add your voice to the protests against Washington's escalating war >against the Colombian people. > >Please circulate as widely as possible. > >Organized by: International Support Group FARC-EP, Action Committee in >Defence of Colombian People. For more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. 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