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<h1 class="title"><small>Ninguno Mas!</small></h1>
In 2010, USLEAP is partnering with the Colombian labor central, <em>Central
Unitaria de Trabajadores</em> (CUT), on a national project <a
href="http://usleap.org/usleap-campaigns/colombia-murder-and-impunity/recent-violence-against-trade-unionists/ninguno-mas"><strong><em>Ninguno
Mas!</em> </strong></a>[No
More] that documents the life and killing of Colombian trade
unionists. The objective of this project is to continue to raise
awareness not only with numbers and stats, but through the use of
biographies and photographs that tell the stories of the level of
violence that Colombian trade unionists continue to face each day. <br>
<br>
More
than 2,700 trade unionists have been assassinated in Colombia in the
last two decades, an average of one murder every three days. We hope
these stories will remind all of us in the US why we cannot allow a
free trade agreement between the US and Colombia if Colombian union
families continue to fall victim to murder as well as other forms of
violence,
including disappearances, kidnappings, torture, and threats at alarming
rates.<br>
<br>
<strong>What You Can Do<br>
<br>
</strong><strong><em>Ninguno Mas!</em></strong>
is an attempt to further engage labor and human rights activists in the
US by calling them to action on a particular case. USLEAP will gather
information and profile specific Colombian trade unionists on our
website. Local or regional labor unions, student groups,
congregations, and organizations can adopt the case of one of our
fallen Colombian brothers or sisters. Each group involved will be
asked to contact (write, email, fax, etc) their members of Congress,
the Colombian government, and other groups about the trade unionist
assassination case they are given to ensure justice is given to the
victims’ families, demanding that the case be fully investigated and
the material and intellectual authors captured and convicted so
impunity is put to an end in Colombia.<br>
<br>
For more information, please contact USLEAP Intern Erin Mihalik at <a
href="mailto:intern@usleap.org">intern@usleap.<wbr>org</a>. <br>
<br>
<i>Erin is a second year law student at Indiana University Maurer
School of Law and will be working toward a joint masters degree in
Public Affairs through Indiana’s School of Public and Environment
Affairs. She plans to focus her studies on legal international human
rights issues. Currently interning with USLEAP, she spent the first
half of the summer in New Delhi, India as a legal intern where she
worked with SEWA Bharat on legal labor issues concerning female street
vendors. Additionally, she was recently selected to work as a Student
Affiliate at Indiana University’s Center for Constitutional Democracy.
Please help us in welcoming Erin by<u><b> reading her latest <a
href="http://laborrightsblog.typepad.com/international_labor_right/2010/07/charts-marketing-101-and-the-colombian-fta-these-arent-just-numbers.html">blog
post</a> on the Colombia FTA.</b></u></i>
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Lupita Aguila
Program Coordinator│ Coordinadora de Programas
U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project│ Proyecto de Solidaridad Laboral en las Americas│ (USLEAP)
P.O. Box 268-290
Chicago, IL 60626, U.S.A.
Tel: 773-262-6502
Fax: 773-262-6602
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.usleap.org">www.usleap.org</a>
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