-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: HELP!!!! - The U'wa people need your help!! Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:55:42 -0500 (CDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; From: Native Forest Network ENA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: HELP!!!! - The U'wa people need your help!! ******** URGENT ALERT ************** The U'wa People Need Your Help! ************************************** Dear Friends, Elizabeth Bravo and Lorenzo Muehlas are two of the best people I know. Both have told me of the greatness of the U'wa people. Lorenzo, an indigenous leader in Columbia, wrote about the U'wa in his Access to the Resources of Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples (See <http://www.edmonds-institute.org/muelaseng.html>.) And Elizabeth, an activist in Ecuador, writes to you below about the current urgent plight of the U'wa. Please, send the faxes that Elizabeth is asking you to write. (The CEO of Occidental is in the US and so you may need to add a country code to his fax number.) And when your faxes have been sent, please send this message on to others. Please help save the U'wa. Tell the CEO of Occidental and the President of Columbia that the world is watching and will not tolerate what is happening to the U'Wa. With respect for the power of your words, Beth Burrows Director of the Edmonds Institute and Listservant of Diverse Women for Diversity ************************************* Date: Tues, 26 June 2000 From: "Elizabeth Bravo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The U'wa people need your help!! Dear Ones: This weekend the Columbian police displaced all the U'wa people who were resisting the presence of the American oil company Occidental. The U'wa regard their land as holy, and the presence of an oil company as a violation of the sacredness of the Mother Earth, and they have said that they prefer collective suicide to an oil company in their territory. This past weekend, all the Columbian people were celebrating San Juan or the June Solstice,and so the military took the opportunity to enter with violence to the place where the U'wa people were defending their territory. More than 70 people have been taken to prison, including several Shamans. They are being forced not to occupy the road (into their territory) again (and so being forced not to resist the incursion of the oil company). We are facing a case of genocide, if this violence do not stop. So I am asking you to support the U'wa people. We urge you to write letters to: Dr Ray Irani, CEO, Occidental Petroleum, 10889 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90024, USA Presidente Andres Pastrana, Casa Presidencial, Bogota, Colombia THE UWA PEOPLE NEED YOUR HELP!!! Yours, Elizabeth Bravo of OILWATCH For more information, contact: Tatiana Roa of Censat Agua Viva email:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *************************** transferred via: ACERCA Action for Community & Ecology in the Regions of Central America POB 57 Burlington, VT 05402 USA (802)863-0571 (802) 864-8203 Fax Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acerca.org ACERCA is a project of the Alliance for Global Justice and a member of the Native Forest Network <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
