Stand by Colombia's Victims of Violence

• USLEAP Colombia Free Trade Agreement Talking Points
• Environmental Talking Points about the Colombia FTA by Friends of the Earth
• Study of Korea and Colombia FTAs and Projected Job Loss by the Economic Policy Institute
• Multi-issue Talking Points on Negative Impacts of U.S.-Colombia FTA
• ITUC Annual Survey of Violation of Trade Union Rights for 2010
• Violence Against Trade Unionists is not Declining
• Murder and Impunity of Colombian Trade Unionists
• Summary of Violence and Impunity, 1986-2010 (Escuela Nacional Sindical)
• USLEAP Impunity Report 2009
• Impacts of U.S.-Colombia FTA on Colombia's Rural Poor
• Impact of the U.S.-Colombia FTA on the Small Farm Economy in Colombia
• No Relief in Sight: Land and Violence on Colombia's Caribbean Coast
• 2010 CODHES Report on Displacement in Colombia
• Los Derechos Humanos o el Libre Comercio
• Organizations with many resources on their sites:
  Citizens Trade Campaign
  Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
  Witness for Peace
  Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
  
  

  Please note that there is a lot being written about the U.S.-Colombia FTA. These do not represent them all, but we do our best to post as many as we can find in a timely manner. If you know of a report that is not on here that you think would be useful for people to read, please  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

   

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• Click here to send a letter to the editor of your local paper.

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• What will you do if the U.S.-Colombia FTA is passed?
•  Impact of the FTA with Colombia on Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Communities
• Impact of the FTA with Colombia on Small-scale Farmers and Workers
• Impact of the FTA with Colombia on Colombian Civil Society
• Obama / McCain debate where Obama explains why he opposed the Colombia FTA
• Video: Rep. Miller Decries Colombia Trade Agreement on House Floor
• Video: Rep. Linda Sanchez Speaks about the FTA on the House Floor
• Video: Rep. Jim McGovern on Human & Labor Rights in Colombia on the House Floor
• Video: Rep. Jan Schakowsky talks Human Rights & the Colombia FTA on the House Floor
• Protest against Colombia trade deal in Chicago at Obama Campaign Headquarters
• Colombian Voices against the FTA: Guillermo Diaz, small-scale farmer
• Profits for Them, Destruction for Us
• Colombian Voices against the FTA: Abilio Peña from the Colombian Interchurch Justice and Peace Commission
• PBI Video on Human Rights Abuses Faced by Afro Colombians and Mestizos in Curvaradó
• Video Debate: TLC Colombia 2011 Choque de Opiniones, on CNN
• Invitation to Fast in Opposition of the Colombia FTA 

• Message to Obama from Chicago coalition opposing the Free Trade Agreement
  
  

  Please note that there are many videos about the U.S.-Colombia FTA. These do not represent them all, but we do our best to post as many as we can find in a timely manner. If you know of a video that is not on here that you think would be useful for people to watch, please  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

   

  
  

"We write to express our deep concern for the rights of Colombia's Afro descendents and indigenous populations, and to affirm that the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) should not be considered as drafted. We believe that the United States and the Colombian Government should take the immediate steps to strenghthen Afro-Colombians' territorial rights and prevent further displacement of Afro-Colombians." Read the full letter here (PDF).

List of Members who signed letter:

• Hank Johnson (D-GA-4)
• John Conyers (D-MI-14)
• Gwen Moore (D-WI-4)
• Bobby Rush (D-IL-1)
• Barbara Lee (D-CA-9)
• Donals Payne (D-NJ-10)
• Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-7)
• Michael Michaud (D-ME-2)
• Keith Ellison (D-MN-5)
• Maurice Hinchey (D-NY-22)
• Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL-2)
• Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX-18)
• Lynn Woolsey (D-CA-6)
• James McGovern (D-MA-3)
• Bob Filner (D-CA-51)
• Dennis Kucinish (D-OH-10)
• Maxine Waters (D-CA-35)
• Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-9)
• Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9)
• Bennie Thompson (D-MS-2)
• Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1)
• Emanuel Cleaver (DD-MO-5)
• Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC-At large)
• Danny Davis (D-IL-7)