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Title: Mass Rally to End U.S. War on Iraq and Colombia
START DATE: 3/24/2003
START TIME: 11:00 AM
Duration: 4 Hours
Location: federal bldg westwood
Location Details:
Westwood Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Boulevard. March to Occidental Petroleum (northeast corner of Westwood Blvd and Wilshire Blvd)
Event Topic:
Event Type: demonstration
Contact Name: Derrick Hindery
Contact Email: dhindery@ucla.edu
Contact Phone: (310) 456-9158
DESCRIPTION:
-Rally at the Westwood Federal Building Monday, March 24 at 11am

-March to the Headquarters of Occidental Petroleum



PROTECT PEOPLE, NOT PIPELINES!!

HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT DRILLING RIGHTS!!

Monday, March 24, 2003

11 a.m., Westwood Federal Building

11000 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood

For more information, contact:

Derrick Hindery, Amazon Watch (310) 456-9158

Liza Smith, Global Exchange (415) 575-5551

FROM BAGHDAD TO BOGOTA, OIL FUELS VIOLENCE!!

NO MORE OIL WARS!!

Take to the streets and show your opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq and Colombia. Come join us at a peace rally at the Westwood Federal Building and march to Occidental Petroleum on Monday, March 24. This demonstration will a send a strong message to the Bush administration that we do not support war with Iraq and that we demand an end to spending U.S. tax dollars to fund U.S.-initiated oil drilling operations that cause death, violence, and environmental destruction in Colombia and other countries.

From Iraq to Colombia, conflict over oil is forcing civilians into the crossfire. American corporations like Haliburton and Occidental directly or indirectly profit from war in oil rich regions such as Colombia and Iraq. At the protest, demonstrators, speakers, and survivors of one of Colombia's most tragic civilian massacres will converge outside the Westwood Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Blvd., at 11:00 a.m. to address the implications of a war with Iraq and how it is linked to the ongoing U.S. support of oil companies like Occidental Petroleum, who continue to drill for oil in Colombia despite resistance from the U'wa indigenous people and the international community.

JOIN US in marching from the Federal Building to the Los Angeles Headquarters of Occidental Petroleum where speakers will condemn Occidental Petroleum's role in fueling violence in Colombia. Speakers include Alberto Galvis Mujica, who lost his mother, sister and cousin to a Colombian Air Force bombing raid on Santo Domingo, Arauca, in Colombia that involved Occidental Petroleum. Speakers Tom Hayden, Blase Bonpane, from the Office of the Americas, Jodie Evans, from Code Pink, Don White from Coalition for World Peace, and Margaret Prescod, from the Global Women's Strike, will discuss how U.S. corporations profit from the current conflict in Iraq.

Why protest against Occidental Petroleum? Occidental, a company that gained infamy for its attempts to drill for oil on sacred U'wa land seems determined to maintain its wretched reputation due to its close association with the 18th battalion of the Colombian Armed Forces--notorious for its human rights violations. The company abandoned a direct role in that drilling effort after intense international criticism and local resistance, but the firm continues to operate in Colombia under heavy military protection.

This oil giant acquired oil exploration rights in 1992 in Colombia where the U'wa, an indigenous people, have lived in the cloud forests for thousands of years. Occidental constructed a pipeline that crosses their sacred land. Occidental's pipeline has been bombed more than 1,000 times, spilling nearly 11 times the amount of oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez.

Occidental Petroleum has succeeded in hijacking U.S. policy on Colombia and asking U.S. taxpayers to foot the bill, while innocent Colombians pay with their lives. Oil continues to be a magnet for violence in Colombia and around the world, and U.S. policy is fueling the fire. Occidental aggressively lobbied the U.S. government for more military aid, helping the Colombian military to obtain funds to protect the company's oil pipeline and other installations. Some million in U.S. aid was granted last month. For 2004 the Bush administration has earmarked an additional 0 million for the protection of Occidental's oil pipeline. Human rights groups denounce this direct subsidy that amounts to a barrel for oil from the pipeline.

The Colombia Mobilization is a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to transform U.S. policy toward Colombia and the Andean region. A partial list includes Amazon Watch, the Coalition for World Peace, Global Exchange, Colombia Peace Project, Witness for Peace, and the Office of the Americas. For a full list, see www.colombiamobilization.org.

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