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De misi�Raquelita: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raquel Morris-Ruiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:35 PM Subject: support women of Colombia > March 8, 2002 > > The 12 hour webcast Marathon will feature women from Colombia speaking about > the need to include women in the peace process and the humanitarian crisis > created by the parties in the conflict and neoliberal policies and the Plan > Colombia itself. Women from Palestine and Israel will also call from > Jerusalem that day to report about their special activity that day. They > will go to all embassies in Jerusalem to present a joint peace plan for the > Middle East. > > Women from Afghanistan will also speak on FIRE on International women's Day > to explain what is missing in the present process: women's rights in daily > life, beyond rhetoric. > > "What is missing in the peace negotiations in Colombia is Colombian women!" > says Mar�a Victoria Polanco, President of AMARC (World Association of > Community Radios). They have been the most affected and the least > represented. According to women peace activists in Colombia, between two to > three million people have been displaced by the war, of which 74% are women > and girls. > > Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE) will undertake a special > humanitarian assistance action this March 8th to send food to the women > displaced from El Cagu�n (former distention zone) during the last two weeks > after the peace negotiations failed. The Webcast will also highlight the > need for women to be included in the decision making in the peace process. > > The audience of the webcast will determine how much aid FIRE will take to > Colombia..for each e-mail letter we receive during the program; FIRE will > buy 5 kilos of rice and food to take to the displaced women and their > families in Colombia. > > The audience will also be able to call collect at 506 2491319 to greet women > all in their day, to support the special humanitarian action, and to comment > about the interviews. Those who cannot call can go into the chat within the > FIRE web page that day. > > The Marathon will run from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Costa Rica time, with the > first 4 hours in English and the next 8 hours in Spanish at www.fire.or.cr > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the e-mail that you can use to join the > humanitarian activity...remember: for each e-mail we receive, we will put 5 > kilos of rice to be distributed among the displaced women and children of El > Cagu�n through the women�s organizations. > > FIRE staff > > Dear Friends > Here is an eloquent statement from a very diverse women in Colombia who I > have had the honor of working with. Please do whatever you can to support > them. Now that International Women's Day is coming up March 8, please > remember them in your events. You are welcome to quote the statement. > > Please > send it out to your lists and to your elected representatives, > especially > > to > the women.. > Thanks a lot > For Peace > Gen Vaughan > > WHO SAYS EVERYTHING IS LOST IN COLOMBIA? > COLOMBIAN WOMEN INSIST THAT THE WAR STOP NOW > > We, the women, watched a peace process between the government and the > > FARC > being born in a death agony because of its exclusive model without > social > basis, and in the same way we watch with horror a war show that is just > > the > continuation of a backward and ungainly patriarchal concept that takes > > war > as the midwife of history and humanity and that, unfortunately today > > defines > the fate of the world and of our country. > > We know, with the wisdom of centuries of pain, exclusions and struggle, > > that a > rrogance is a bad counsellor in making any kind of decision. That hard > > words > and a hard heart are not not possible when the life and dignity of > populations are hanging in the balance. > > That is why today we raise our songs to life, to peace and to social > > justice, > trying to make them heard above the trumpets and drums of war. > > We will not play along with the traffickers of death, with the sellers of > magic formulas, with those who make of misery and pain an entertainment, > > with > those who design strategies and mechanisms to get rich and show off > while > many other people are getting killed. > > Let it be clear that we persist in looking for negotiated solutions for > > our > country, in building up life and society in the midst of the barbarism > > and > desolation that others are trying to impose on us as our destiny. > > Since patience and stubbornness, tolerance and solidarity continue on our > side, we will refuse to send our sons to war and we will not support any > > act > of humilliation and violence in the homes, the streets, the suburbs, the > cities, the villages and the settlements. > > We will continue analyzing alternatives for the developpment of the > > country, > educating our sons and daughters, marching, singing, working, loving, > > weaving > initiatives, giving birth to projects of liberation. From so much > effort, > another kind of peace process must be born: one that includes us, as well > > as > all the ethnic groups, the generations, the social classes and > religions, > those who live in the countryside and those who live in the cities, those > with different political affiliations and with different professions. > > Reason, which has been so much sold to us as male patrimony and > > rationality, > is today on our side. We have the clarity and the will to create > solutions > with less arrogance and more tenderness, with more sanity and more > generosity, based, neither in profit nor in honor but in the dignity and > > the > happiness we deserve. > > This is a historical opportunity to change the model with which the > > conflicts > are faced in our country and in the world. The time has come to raise > our > voices and our proposals and demonstrate to the powerful that as a > > country, > we still have the chance to build a solution which is decent and > generous. > > We call on all Colombian Women NOT to allow that from their hands and > > wombs > spring food for violence and war. > > We call on international women's organizations, stateswomen, and women > politicians to lobby their governments so that women's and children's > > lives > are respected and a new scenario of negotiated peace develops with the > participation of women, and of all those who so far have been excluded > > from > the decisions about whether to go to war or to reach a peaceful solution > > to > Colombia's conflict. > Consensus of Women from The Peace Boat, the Way of Peace for the Women of > Colombia. > > Spokes women: Nazly Lozano, Norma Bermudez, Elizabeth Caicedo, Maria > > Lastenia > Pito, Consuelo Davila, Marta Fernandez, Margarita Pacheco, Maria > Gabriela > Mendez, Angela Cuevas > for more information > www.Embarcapazcolombia.org > or write [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For a Negotiated Solution to the Armed Conflict > > > > > > Plain View Press > P O 33311 > Austin, TX 78764 > 512-441-2452 > 1-800-878-3605 > > "Hard times ain't quit. And we ain't quit." > Meridel LeSueur > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > -------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE COLEXT as the BODY of the message. Un archivo de colext puede encontrarse en: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ cortesia de Anibal Monsalve Salazar
