Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980204225444.20694A-100000@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:55:10 -0500 From: "Overseas Dev. Network" <mailto:odn@GWIS2.CIRC.GWU.EDU> Subject: Delegation to Chiapas in March/April! (fwd) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Overseas Development Network - GWU Marvin Center Box 61, 800 21st St. NW Washington, DC 20052 USA http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~odn---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 06:12:05 -0800 (PST) From: "NCOORD Guatemala - Washington, DC" <mailto:ncoord@igc.apc.org> To: mailto:odn@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Subject: Delegation to Chiapas in March/April!
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Witness for Peace & NCOORD (National Coordinating Office on the Refugees and Displaced of Guatemala)
Announce a Rapid Response Delegation to....
C H I A P A S
Co-sponsored by EPICA, Center for Global Education, Guatemala Partners, Global Exchange and Presbeteryian Peace Fellowship
"We run the risk of becoming complacent once the violence stops...[T]his puts us in danger of forgetting the underlying causes which gave rise to the conflict." Bishop Samuel Ruiz, speaking to AFSC Emergency Delegation for Peace in Chiapas
March 28 - April 5 $710 from Mexico City (includes airfare)
March 26 - April 7 $1,300 from Washington, DC (includes airfare) ==> includes advocacy visits with members of Congress and Administration (prices are approximate, call for more information)
Trip Leadership: *Chris Gilbreth, director of NCOORD, lived in Chiapas for two years, working as a human rights observer and leading nine international delegations through the area while he worked with Global Exchange. He completed his M.A. in Latin American Studies, writing a thesis on the Zapatista uprising.
*Kirsten Schwind, a member of Witness for Peace's Long Term Team in Guatemala has worked in community health centers in the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Ecuador and Mexico and has carried out field research on Mexican agricultural policy.
Investigate the escalation of human rights abuses and growing refugee crisis
Learn from local religious and human rights leaders about the roots of the problems affecting the region and how these leaders are responding
Visit the Aguascalientes centers of cultural and political resistance
Study the connection between the conflict in Mexico and the globalization of the economy, including trade agreements like NAFTA
Visit indigenous women's weaving cooperatives, a fair trade alternative.
And, meet with indigenous farmers from the coffee cooperative sector, an economic alternative which has been targeted for repression by the paramilitaries
Learn about US policy toward Mexico and become an articulate spokesperson for alternative policies
For information on how to get involved contact David Bryden:
Witness for Peace 110 Maryland Avenue, NE #304 Washington, DC 20002 202/544-0781 tel 202/544-1187 fax mailto:witness@w4peace.org http://www.w4peace.org/WFP ---------------------------- **************** NCOORD Guatemala National Coordinating Office on the Refugees and Displaced of Guatemala 1830 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20009
Tel: (202) 265-8713 Fax: (202) 265-0042 email: mailto:ncoord@igc.org