Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980115154018.6209A-100000@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:42:39 -0500 From: "Overseas Dev. Network" <mailto:odn@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> Subject: Trip to Chiapas (fwd) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Rapid Response Delegation to Chiapas, Mexico Sponsored by Witness for Peace & National Coordinating Office of Refugees and Displaced Peoples (NCOORD).mailto:witness@w4peace.org for more information
"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 lobbying visits with members of Congress and Administration
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
Stay with Mexican families
Study the connection between the conflict in Mexico and the globalization of the economy, including trade agreements like NAFTA
Meet with indigenous farmers from the coffee cooperative sector, an economic alternative which has been targetted 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 at Witness for Peace, 110 Maryland Ave., NE #304, Washington, DC 20002. 202-544-0781 or Chris Gilbreth at NCOORD, 1830 Conneticut Avenue, Washington, DC 202/265-8713. Witness for Peace 110 Maryland Avenue, NE #304 Washington, DC 20002 202/544-0781 202/544-1187 fax mailto:witness@w4peace.org http://www.w4peace.org/WFP