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CNY- CajibíoSister
Partnership
Building solidarity,developing community,
supporting creative, nonviolent resistance
in Colombia.
You Can Help!
Contact us to learn more, get involved or schedule a speaker:
Syracuse:Paul Weichselbaum (315) [email protected]
Cortland:Colleen Kattau (607) [email protected]
Ithaca:Laurie (607) [email protected]
DonationsAll donations to CNY-CSN support the
MCC’s work in job training, youth empow-erment and women’s health. Consider a pledge of $5-10/month.
To donate, please return this form with a check or money order to:
CNY-CSN, 340 Midland Ave., Syracuse, NY 13202
Name ____________________________
Address ___________________________
Phone ____________________________
Donation _________________________
Thank you for supporting peaceful resistance!
What We’ve Done
• Hosted MCC organizers Marylen Serna Salinas (2004 East Coast speaking tour) and John Henry Gonzalez (2005), and art-ist Jafeth Goméz Ledesma (2009, exhibits in Syracuse and Ithaca).
• Passed city resolutions in Ithaca and Syra-cuse recognizing our sister-partnership.
• Organized four delegations (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009) to Cajibío to build solidarity between our communities. Participants met with community organizers, human rights workers, the US embassy, and Co-lombian officials.
• Pressured Congressional representatives through calling, emails, letters, and visits.
• Helped the MCC fundraise, including obtaining a $10,000 grant from CNY’s Common Place Land Trust to purchase land for their organic farm La Aromática.
• Coordinated educational events, media in-terviews, and written articles for both lo-
cal and national publications.
¡Por un mundo libre,digno, y justo!
Art by Cajibío artist Jafeth Goméz Ledesma.Workshop on sustainable agriculture by women of Cajibío
CNY-CajibíoSister Partnership
Founded in 2000, the Central NY chapter of the Co-lombia Support Network works for a negotiated settlement to Colombia’s armed conflict by promoting a just U.S. foreign policy and by supporting Colombian civil society.
In 2003, CNY-CSN established a sister community with the Small Farmers’ Move-ment of Cajibío. We work in solidarity, learning from each other and supporting each other in our mutual struggles for eco-nomic justice, a clean environment, health care and peaceful communities.
THE SMALL FARMERS’ MOVEMENT OF Cajibío
• The Small Farmers’ Movement of Cajibío (MCC) is one of many groups struggling for
peace and justice in Colom-bia. Made up of campesinos, indigenous people, and Afro-Colombians, Cajibío is a small municipality located in the violence-torn southwest-ern department of Cauca.
• The MCC organizes com-munity members to resist violence and poverty and to strive for a life of dignity. To this end, the Movement seeks relationships of global solidarity. Currently it has active projects on women’s health, traditional medi-cine, youth empowerment, organic agriculture and
sustainable development.
Why Colombia?
• Colombia is the largest recipient of U.S. military aid in the Western hemisphere.
• This aid fuels a 50 year civil war whose main victims are innocent civilians.
• In the last ten years, the war has taken over 45,000 lives and displaced 4 million people - many children.
• The U.S. government gives millions of dollars to arms manufacturers to produce weapons for the Colombian army, notorious for its ties to right-wing paramilitary death squads.
• The U.S. funds harmful aerial fumigation and forced eradication of coca that often displace communities and harm the envi-ronment without solving the drug problem.
• We must listen to and support the many Colombian organizations struggling for peace and justice -- the very groups targeted by Colombia’s armed actors for harassment, assassination, and disappearance.
We seek to reverse the militarism and ex-ploitation that dominate the relationship between the U.S. and Colombia. We work to prevent violence to our sister commu-nity by putting an international spotlight on any threats to it.
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Aug. 2007 CNY group trip to Cajibío
Cajibío youth group, Jan. 2006
