Plan Colombia, Plan of Death Plan Colombia, Plan de Muerte
Speaker: Mary Hershberger
Mary Hershberger is a professor of history at Capital University. Her publications include _Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War_ (1998) and "Mobilizing Women, Anticipating Abolition: The Struggle against Indian Removal in the 1830s" (_Journal of American History_ 86.1, June 1999). She is actively involved in the SOA Watch and Witness for Peace.
Date: Thursday, February 7 Time: 5:00 p.m. Location: 115 Stillman, OSU 1947 College Rd., Columbus, OH
The teach-in with Mary Hershberger includes the showing of a 40-minute video "Colombia -- The Next Vietnam?" by Anne Barstow and Tom Driver of the Witness for Peace. The video demonstrates that US involvement in Colombia is not mainly about drugs but about oil; not about counternarcotics but about counterinsurgency; and not about coca but about US military expansion. It documents life in a village built by refugees fleeing from the US-sponsored poison spraying of farms; environmental damage of the spraying; murderous attacks on Colombia's labor movement; and interviews with mayors, legislators, human rights workers, the military, campesinos, pastors, women's groups, and US embassy personnel.
<<Los Estados Unidos parecen destinados por la providencia para plagar la América de miserias en nombre de la libertad.>> -- Simón Bolívar, 1829
Sponsored by the Student International Forum and Social Welfare Action Alliance. OSU Campus map: <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/stillmanhall.html>. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
The flyer for the event is available at <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/colombia.doc>. The flyer for other upcoming SIF/SWAA events is available at <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar5.doc>. -- Yoshie
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