Subject: PROTEST: NO! TO PLAN COLOMBIA!



A CALL FOR NATIONALLY COORDINATED ACTIONS TO DEMAND:

U.S. OUT OF COLOMBIA!

NO! TO PLAN COLOMBIA!

DEMONSTRATE!

Tuesday, January 30, 2001

6:00 p.m.

Westwood Federal Building (at Wilshire & Veteran)

Why we need unite to build a movement against the growing U.S.

intervention in Colombia:

. The Bush administration promises to continue Clinton's policy

of intervention in Colombia. Key Bush advisers even talk about dropping

the "false distinction" between the war on drugs and the

counterinsurgency war against Colombia's popular movement.

. The military phase of Plan Colombia is scheduled to begin in

January. This Washington-inspired counterinsurgency plan is designed to

provide the Colombian government with aid to impose its pro-IMF economic

policies and crush all popular resistance. A campaign of death-squad

terror has already begun in the province of Putumayo to precede the

"push to the south" - the combined military offensive and biological

warfare "defoliation" campaign against the region.

. The Colombian government and armed forcers is threatening to

re-invade the five evacuated municipalities on Jan. 31. This zone was

set up to facilitate talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of

Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP); invading the zone would open a new

phase of military conflict across the country. The zone is the only

region in Colombia free of death-squad terrorism.

. We need to send a clear signal to the new Bush administration: the

U.S. war against the Colombian people must end. The U.S. people have

nothing to gain from a phony drug war that amounts to more money for the

Pentagon and merchants of death and less for drug treatment, education

and jobs.

"NO!" to Plan Colombia!

Hundreds of people in 12 U.S. cities demonstrated against Clinton's trip

to Colombia last August. Let's show Bush and the Pentagon that the

tidal wave of protests at the inauguration will not let up.

INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER

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