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Exporting the fruit of mass exploitation

August 13, 2008 – 5:19 am

By Betsey Piette
Bogotá, Colombia
From Shakespeare’s rose in “Romeo & Juliet” to Van Gogh’s sunflowers, flowers have been integral to many cultures, marking rites of passage from birth to death.

Alba, a flower worker.
WW photos: Betsey Piette

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Colombia’s Permanent People’s Tribunal: Transnational corporations found guilty of serious crimes

August 2, 2008 – 2:34 pm

By LeiLani Dowell
Bogotá, Colombia
The Permanent People’s Tribunal meeting here on July 23 condemned the Colombian government “for actions and for omissions in committing genocide.” It also condemned transnational corporations—such as Coca-Cola—for the “serious, clear and persistent violations of the general principles and norms protecting civil, political, economic, social and ecological rights of […]

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People’s Tribunal prepares verdict in Colombia

July 29, 2008 – 4:52 pm

U.S. activists, on a delegation organized by the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange and the International Action Center, joined 1,700 others here today for the opening of the Permanent People’s Tribunal in Colombia.

 

In New York July 22, one of many solidarity actions with People’s […]

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Latin American media broadcasts FARC statement

July 21, 2008 – 5:40 am

By: Alfonso Cano
‘We will never give up the struggle for justice’
Recent events in Columbia have been widely discussed in the U.S. media, but what has been missing is the voice of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Without that, there cannot be an informed discussion of the issues at play.
We reprint […]

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Correa refuses to mend Colombia ties

July 17, 2008 – 5:38 pm

PressTV
Sun, 13 Jul 2008

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has refused to restore ties with Colombia following the Colombian attack on the Ecuadorian territory.
Correa said during his Saturday radio show, ‘Our sovereignty has been trampled on, and we have been disrespected,’ declining to mend relations with the Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
Relations between […]

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