Action Alerts

Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia a huge success!

by Eric Oliver on May 31, 2012


Wow.  What an incredible display of solidarity we saw this year!

Thanks to your help, this year’s 7th Annual Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia was a huge success!  Here at LAWG we are super impressed with how many of you got involved.  Whether by creating paper homes, sending postcards to President Obama, or signing our Petition to Congress—you helped make sure our message was heard loud and clear: everybody deserves a place to call home.  Together, we raised our voices to call for an end to the world’s largest displacement crisis that’s left millions of Colombians homeless. 

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:2012, Action Alerts, Stand by Colombia's Victims of Violence
 

Write a Letter to the Editor: Set the Record Straight on Colombia

by LAWG Colombia Team on April 17, 2012

DC activists make "A Place to Call Home" messages to ObamaWrite a Letter to the Editor: Call for U.S. policies to support a place to call home for everyone in Colombia!
Did you hear what President Obama did while in Colombia last weekend? Despite ongoing murders of union leaders and land rights activists, he glossed over all the human rights violations, ignored the continuing displacement crisis, and announced that Colombia had fulfilled its requirements on labor rights that would allow the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement to go into effect on May 15.

Click here to set the record straight on what’s really happening in Colombia!

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:2012, Action Alerts, U.S.-Colombia FTA Resources
 

Are Your Valentine's Flowers From Colombia?

by Vanessa and Lisa, LAWG's Colombia Team on February 14, 2012


Did you know that 60% of flowers bought in the United States come from Colombia? Nearly 100,000 mostly female flower workers have been working 16- to 18-hour days for poverty-level wages to get us the flowers that thousands of people will buy today.

This Valentine’s Day, take action to support these flower workers in their struggle for fair wages, equal treatment, justice, and dignity!

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:2012, Action Alerts, U.S.-Colombia FTA Resources
 

A Place to Call Home: Get Involved in the National Days of Action for Colombia in April

by Vanessa and Lisa, LAWG Colombia Team on April 04, 2012
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:2012, Action Alerts
 

Deadly Attacks Against Colombian Human Rights Defenders

by Lisa Haugaard on February 06, 2012
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:2012, Action Alerts
 

Sign Our Petition to Protect Colombian Land Rights Leaders

by Vanessa Kritzer on March 01, 2012
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Watch and Share New PBS Documentary about Afro-Colombian Women Leaders from La Toma

by Vanessa Kritzer, LAWG Colombia Team on November 01, 2011

Great news! Two of the women leaders of the Afro-Colombian community La Toma, which we have told you about in blogs and action alerts, have been featured on a program called Women, War & Peace on PBS!



Please help us spread the word about this show and click here to watch it online!

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:2011, Action Alerts
 
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