STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subj: CLM needs your support! Please help Date: 6/27/01 10:06:34 AM Mountain Daylight Time From: xx738@. prairienet.org (Colombian Labor Monitor) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear CLM-NEWS subscriber, The Colombian Labor Monitor is in terrible need of your assistance. Without your immediate assistance there is a real danger that CLM will simply cease to exist. Please heed this heart-felt call for help! CLM has been doing its work for almost four years and never before have I asked for financial support, even in the worst of times. CLM has been operating on a shoestring budget, exclusively funded from my meager salary as a university professor. But now, CLM needs your support like never before. Please help CLM survive by making a financial contribution. Your support will go a very long way and it will have a very big impact. CLM does not have a corporate account. If you know me well enough personally you may feel comfortable sending your contribution in my name: DENNIS GRAMMENOS. For the rest, the Institute for Working Class History has generously made its corporate account available to CLM. In that case, make your check or money order out to: INSTITUTE FOR WORKING CLASS HISTORY. In the "memo" space on the lower left-hand side include a notation: "for CLM" You should mail your contribution: Dr. Dennis Grammenos Department of Geography Northeastern Illinois University 5500 N. St. Louis Ave. Chicago, IL 60525 As you know, CLM-NEWS is a news service of the COLOMBIAN LABOR MONITOR (www.prairienet.org/clm) and the CHICAGO COLOMBIA COMMITTEE (www.prairienet.org/clm/chicol.html). When I started sending these regular emails almost four years ago, Colombia was not even on the screen. There was a general lack of awareness and no systematic way of spreading the word. I was determined to raise awareness about what is happening in Colombia and to help shape a grass root movement of solidarity with the people of Colombia in search of a just resolution to the conflict. My most pressing concern was with the struggles of Colombia's labor movement that still is under relentless assault from the security forces and their paramilitary allies. Scores of unionists were getting killed each year and all the U.S. media would talk about was some mythical "war on drugs." Over the time that the Colombian Labor Monitor has been doing its work, I have seen more and more people join the solidarity movement. I recall people who started contacting me because one of my emails had been forwarded to them. Many wanted to know if "all this is true." Many were eager to find out how they could help. These days I see that some of those people have become quite prominent in the struggle for justice in Colombia. This is the most fulfilling part of this experience. CLM-NEWS collects and distributes news items mostly from the anglophone media, especially from the U.S. Of course, this makes reading between the lines an art form:-) Putting together the dispatches takes some work on a daily basis, as the stories have to be located (sometimes translated), formatted, and distributed. CLM-NEWS now goes out to 3,870 "direct" subscribers from at least 51 different countries (the country of origin of many subscribers is undetermined). The majority of subscribers are based in the United States (2,103), with Colombia second (271). The list includes subscribers from Ecuador to Mozambique, and from Canada to Japan. Subscribed to CLM-NEWS are unionists concerned about Colombia's dirty war on Labor, human rights activists concerned with the gross violations in Colombia, academics, journalists, nuns, priests, ministers, political activists. International organizations are also subscribed, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Red Cross, United Nations, etc. The subscription list also includes U.S. congressional aides, U.S. government officials (including the Pentagon, various departments, and the U.S. Embassy in Bogota). Also on the list are Colombian officials, both military and civilian, including the Colombian Embassy in Washington, DC. It should not be surprising that in this age of information the subscription list also includes the three guerrilla groups (FARC, ELN, EPL) as well as the right-wing paramilitaries. They, too, like to stay informed about how the anglophone press covers Colombia. Besides the 3,870 "direct" subscribers, there are many more people who read all or part of the CLM-NEWS dispatches as they get redistributed again and again to other email lists around the world. In fact, there are at least 11 email lists directly subscribed to CLM-NEWS, each one of them with hundreds of subscribers that get CLM-NEWS indirectly. I want the work of the Colombian Labor Monitor to continue. CLM needs your help now. Please accept my deepest appreciation for any support you can provide CLM with. 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