Colombia

Last Friday's national "terrorism" raids against antiwar activists continue to dominate conversation in the Twin Cities social justice community. On Monday, over 200 people rallied outside the FBI building at Marquette and Washington in downtown Minneapolis (see photos from TC Daily Planet), and Thursday evening will be the formative meeting at Walker Church for a solidarity committee to defend those investigated for alleged "material support of terrorism."

US Military Aggression Against Venezuela Escalating

War and mass media in Colombia
ABN 10/07/2008

Caracas, Jul, 10 ABN (Jesus Inojosa).- The former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was captive by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during more than six years, was 'rescued' through an operation carried out by the Colombian Army, led by its commander-in-chief, Alvaro Uribe Velez.

* The threat of armed conflict involving the governments of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela has mobilized anarchists and anti-militarists across the continent, in words and in action, to repudiate what would be a monstrous aggression by state powers against our peoples. Below there are two documents that call for struggle against this evil.