Colombia Resources
CONTACT THESE ORGANIZATIONS: Chicago Colombia Committee -ttp.//www.prairienet.ora/clm/chicol An independent, grass roots human rights organization working to foster a peaceful and just...
...Gripping portrayal of events in 1985, when M-19 guerrillas took the Colombian Supreme Court Justices hostage...
...Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective edited by Charles Bergquist (1992, out of print but worth finding...
...Calle 19 No...
...3-50 Of...
...Must-read collection of essays that covers the nineteenth century to the 1 980s, and contextualizes Colombia's contemporary crisis by describing the history of the violence and its social and economic structures...
...Account of the Colombian government's attempts during the period in question to peacefully end vio- lence by guerrillas, drug traffickers and paramilitary groups...
...and European connections to the trade...
...Thanks to Garry Leech and Colombia Report for assisting in the compilation of this resource list...
...Box 1091 GPO New York, NY 10116 (212) 802-7209 Colombia Report http://www.colombiareport.ora P.O...
...Box 6103 Albany, CA 94706 (510) 559-8796 Institute Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos www.ilsa.org.co Calle 38 #16-45 AP 077844, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia (571) 288-0416 Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) http://info~lanic.utexas.edulla/colomInstitute of Latin American Studies Sid W. Richardson Hall 1.310 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 Latin America Working Group httpl/wwwIawo.ora 110 Maryland Ave NE, Box 15, Suite 203 Washington, DC 20002 (202) 546-7010 The Sunshine Project (Information about plans to use herbicidal fungi in Colombia) www.sunshine-project.org Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) httpilvwww.wola.org VOL XXXIV, No 2 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2000 55RESOURCES ON COLOMBIA 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20009 (202) 797-2171 HELPFUL READING ABOUT COLOMBIA: The Andean Cocaine Industry by Patrick L. Clawson and Rensselaer W. Lee Ill (New York: St...
...and why those efforts were unsuccessful...
...The Palace of justice: A Colombian Tragedy by Ana Carrigan (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993...
...43 minutes...
...Colombia's Killer Networks by Human Rights Watch (Washington: Human Rights Watch, 1996...
...Martin's Press, 1998...
...Box 20314 New York, NY 10009 Equipo Nizkor http/Awww.dertechos.oro/nizkor (Spanish human rights organization...
...2618 W Gregory St Chicago, IL 60625 (773) 794-2605 Colombia Support Network httpl://www.colombiasupport.net A non-governmental organization doing human rights work in Colombia and building solidarity between the peoples of that country and North America...
...Fiction of War (documentary video) (1WorldProduction, 1999...
...Box 1505 Madison, WI 53701 (608) 257-8753 Consultoria para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento (CODHES) htto-I/www.codhes.orq.co Colombian human rights group focusing on displaced persons...
...Contact through: Colombia Human Rights Committee RO...
...Box 3130 Washington, DC 20010 (202) 232-8148 Colombian Labor Monitor http:m/iww.prairienet.or/rim/home page.html An independent, labor-rights organization that fosters international solidarity with the Colombian labor movement...
...Publishes Action on Colombia and Colombia Bulletin...
...Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1997...
...Available at (413) 323-7629, $30...
...Excellent description of human rights violations committed by the military and paramilitary groups, and the two institutions' connections to each other...
...Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy by Javier Giraldo, SiJ...
...Describes the cocaine industry in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, from growers to traffickers-and U.S...
...P.O- Box 4566 Washington, DC 20017 (202) 234-3440 U'wa Defense Working Group http1/MAww.moles.orgnuwAdex.ht ml Homepage of a coalition dedicated to protecting the U'wa people of Colombia...
...Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia (571) 544-0010 Human Rights Watch http://www.hvy.org 350 Fifth Ave, 34th Floor New York, NY 10118-3299 (212) 290-4700 Information Services Latin America (ISLA) http: /www.iQc.orq/isla/ PRO...
...Army School of the Americas through actions as well as media and legislative work...
...servient position to the military...
...260 W Fullerton Ave Chicago, IL 60647 (773) 489-1255 Colombia Human Rights Network http'Lwww.igc.orrg CIhrnet A network of organizations in several U.S...
...Carrigan shows that the Colombian Army staged a de facto coup by wiping out the independent judiciary and putting the country's president in a sub...
...Recently initiated a project to promote peace and justice in Colombia...
...IN-DEPTH INFORMATION ON AND ANALYSIS OF EVENTS IN COLOMBIA: Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.orgc 322 8th Ave New York, NY 10001 (212) 807-8400 Center for International Policy httpil/www.cionline orglcolgmbi a/ 1755 Massachusetts Ave NW, Suite 312 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 232-3317 Colombia Media Project (Has a large collection of videos about Colombia) P.O...
...1405 9018 Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia 3342107-3425804 Global Exchange httnA/\ww.9lobalexchanoe.orgtcolo mbia Non-profit research, education, and action center dedicated to promoting people-to-people ties around the world...
...CONTACT THESE ORGANIZATIONS: Chicago Colombia Committee -ttp.//www.prairienet.ora/clm/chicol An independent, grass roots human rights organization working to foster a peaceful and just resolution to the conflict in Colombia...
...State-Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia: 1986-1994, by Harvey S. Kline (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999...
...Focuses on the U.S.overhaul of Colombia's miitary intelligence network, which has resulted in further ties between the Colombian military and paramilitary groups...
...2017 Mission St Rm 303 San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 255-7296 x 228 School of the Americas Watch Independent organization that seeks to close the U.S...
...P.O...
...Includes information and action alerts about the struggle against efforts of Occidental Petroleum and the Colombian government to drill for oil in the U'was' sacred homeland...
...Apartado de Correo 156037 Madrid-Espahia Email: nizkor@derechos.org Fundaci6n para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) htpi/,BAwv'ipcoloMba.org (Works for freedom of the press and protection of journalists in Colombia...
...Compelling depiction of the Colombian military's brutality towards the main victims of the ongoing civil war: civilians, who are not linked to any armed actors in the conflict, but whom the armed forces consider enemies...
...cities, working to defend and promote human rights in Colombia through binational coalition building...
...Victims tell their stories in their own words...
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