Action Center - Latin America Working Group

State-based Organizing to Oppose the U.S.-Colombia FTA

by Vanessa Kritzer on August 15, 2011

Below you'll find a list of organizers we know of working to oppose the U.S.-Colombia FTA through local activism. If you live in one of these places and want to get involved, please contact them! If you are organizing people in your area and are not on this list, please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we'll be happy to put you on.

California: Statewide organizing. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
California: Mingas Network. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
California: Marin Interfaith Taskforce on the Americas. To email them, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Colorado: Denver Justice and Peace Committee organizing. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
DC Metro Area: To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Illinois: Chicago organizing. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Indiana: To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Massachusetts: In the Boston area get in touch with This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Or if you're closer to Worchester This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Maryland: Baltimore. To contact other involved activists This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Maine: Statewide. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Michigan: Detroit. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Minnesota: Minneapolis. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Nationwide: Presbyterian Peace Fellowship organizing faith-based action! To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
New Mexico: To contact other involved activists This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
New York: Statewide. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
New York: Buffalo. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Ohio: Statewide. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Oregon: Eugene. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Oregon: Portland. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Oregon: Salem. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Pennsylvania: Statewide. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Texas: Statewide. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Washington: Seattle. To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Wisconsin and Upper Midwest: To get involved contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Online Actions to Oppose the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement

by Vanessa Kritzer on August 15, 2011

Click here to send an email to your elected officials today.
Catch your legislators on facebook and twitter! Click here to read our social media strategy and get posting.
Click here to send a letter to the editor of your local paper.
Share our two-minute video about the negative effects of the U.S.-Colombia FTA on email, facebook, twitter... just help us get it out!
Like our new "Stop the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement" facebook page.

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As Protests Ignite, Make Your Call to Congress

by LAWG Colombia Team on July 11, 2011

This could be it.

The U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) could come up for a vote any day now unless our legislators really see some resistance. So please participate in our National Call-in Day to Congress TODAY Monday, July 11th!

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Kick Off August on a Strategy Call with LAWG

by LAWG Colombia Team on August 02, 2011

Congress will be on recess August 8th through September 6th, meaning your Representative will be back in their hometown office for an entire month. Together, we have the opportunity to make sure our members of Congress don’t just vacation during their time away from Capitol Hill, but instead hear from all of us, urging them to oppose the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. So we have to get organized now.

Join our August Recess Get-Active Campaign Conference Call on Thursday, August 11th to learn how you can turn up the heat in your district!

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Congressmen Urge Obama to Protect Afro-Colombians before FTA

by Emily Chow on July 07, 2011

"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)

:2011, Congressional Letters, Statements, and Resolutions, U.S.-Colombia FTA Resources

Rallying for Justice Against the Colombia FTA

by Andrew Carpenter on July 13, 2011

On Monday, July 11, activists from the United States and Colombia organized an emergency demonstration against the pending Colombia Free Trade Agreement across from the White House.

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