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        Speaking Tour
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              Farming Community’s
              Fight for Control of Its Land and Future
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            <p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
                'Calibri'">See details below or at colombiavive.org<br>
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            <p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
                'Calibri'">Sunday, September 30, 12:00-1:00 pm, Church
                of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St., Boston<br>
                Tuesday, October 2, 7:30-9:00 pm, Tufts University,
                Cabot 206, Medford<br>
                Friday, October 5, 5:00-9:00 pm, Encuentro 5 (NEW
                LOCATION), 9 Hamilton Place, Suite 2A, Boston</span></p>
            <p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
                'Calibri'">Want to put together a last-minute event near
                you?  Contact Ana Zambrano:
                <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anazambrano.colombiavive@gmail.com">anazambrano.colombiavive@gmail.com</a>, 617.605.2247<br>
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              Speakers:
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              rgb(99.608000%, 11.753744%, 0.398432%)">Land Rights
              Activist Etny Torres Moreno and
              Human Rights Attorney Jorge Eliécer Reales Maza
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          <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="font-size:
              12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'">For decades, the
              few hundred residents of Las Pavas, a sustainable farming
              community in
              southern Bolivar, a department (province) in northern
              Colombia, have been forced to leave
              their land periodically to escape paramilitary violence.
              But the community members have
              always returned.
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          <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="font-size:
              12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'">In 2006, as the
              community was organizing to claim its right to the land
              under Colombian
              law, Daabon Group, a large producer of palm oil for the
              international organic market,
              bought the community’s land from the absentee owner who
              had lost his claim to the land.
              In July 2009, the Colombian riot police forcefully removed
              the community of Las Pavas
              from the land. Nearly two years later, the community
              returned to their homes and their
              struggle to gain control over their land continues.
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          <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="font-size:
              14.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'; color:
              rgb(0.633600%, 25.740000%, 79.200000%)">While a particular
              tragedy, the story of Las Pavas is emblematic of the
              perpetual struggle in Colombia over control of the land
              and its productivity.
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          <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="font-size:
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              rgb(0.633600%, 25.740000%, 79.200000%)">In this Speaking
              Tour, Etny Torres, a leader in the struggle against
              expropriation of subsistence farmers’ land by
              government-backed
              agrobusiness, and Jorge Eliécer Reales Maza, a human
              rights attorney
              representing displaced </span><span style="font-size:
              14.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri,BoldItalic'; color:
              rgb(0.633600%, 25.740000%, 79.200000%)">campesinos, </span><span
              style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family:
              'Calibri,Bold'; color: rgb(0.633600%, 25.740000%,
              79.200000%)">will place the story of Las Pavas in the
              larger contexts of multinational corporate land grabs,
              international trade,
              human rights and national sovereignty.
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              rgb(0.633600%, 25.740000%, 79.200000%)">Come hear about
              the struggle of the people of Las Pavas from eyewitnesses
              and learn what you can do to change the balance of power,
              in Colombia and
              here in the United States.
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              for more details.</span></p>
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