FRIDAY, MARCH 26 - 8PM - 2994 DOUGLAS ST., BCGEU BUILDING
Live Latin American music, all proceeds to support shipping a container of humanitarian aid to Chile.
Please consider bringing blankets, shoes, jackets, powdered milk, anti-coagulant medication, dishes, cooking utensils, first aid kits, camping stove, tarps.
$10 general admission, [tickets at the door]
The Victoria Central America Support Committee in conjunction with Global Emergency Missions Society [Langley] is asking for your support in providing blankets, shoes, jackets, powdered milk, anti-coagulant medication, dishes, cooking utensils, first aid kits, camping stoves and tents for the victims of the cataclysm occurred in Chile on Saturday, February 27, 2010. [For other items not listed, please write to:
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Hillside Center has agreed to be a collection point for the humanitarian aid. BC Ferries has declined our request for waiving the transportation fare for the humanitarian cargo from Victoria to Vancouver.
Tax deductible donations to help pay for the shipping of the container to Chile can be made to:Global Emergencies Mission Society, Att: Chile Container - 3835 Saanich Road, Victoria, BC, V8X 1Y4
The collected goods will be transported directly to the warehouse of Global Emergency Missions Society in Langley, placed in a container and subsequently shipped to Chile to the small peasant community of El Monte
Action Bulletin on Canadian Mining Company in El Salvador
Written by CASC staff
Monday, 11 January 2010 02:35
Background
Pacific Rim Mining Corporation based in Vancouver has been working on its El Dorado Gold property in Cabañas, El Salvador since 2002 near Sensuntepeque (pop. 49,000).The exploration and exploitation permits were granted by the ARENA government without any community consultation.
WRITETO LILIANY & tell her you are working for her freedom & that of all political prisoners in COLOMBIA at
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or Carrera 47 Numero 84-25,Reclusion de Mujeres de Bogota "Buen Pastor", Liliany Patrcia Obando, Patio 6, TD D65593Bogota, Colombia(you may write in English or Spanish)
TELESUR TV interviews Liliany Obando in a Colombian prison
Poster made by the Political Prisoners of the Colombian National Women's Penitentiary
"Did you know?...that there are 7.200 political prisoners in Colombia, many serving sentences between 20 and 60 years. The political prisoners also have parents, brothers, partners and children!!, we are in jail for the crime of being revolutionaries. Political Prisoners: Humanitarian Exchange, NOW!!.."
LETTERS FROM COLOMBIA NATIONAL WOMEN'S PENITENTIARY
"...With much emotion and gratitude I received in the National Women's Penitentiary where I have been a prisoner for 3 months, your messages of solidarity and...."
We are based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
For more information on joining CASC, why not come to one of our monthly meetings? They are held at 7:30 pm on the first Wednesday of every month at 1923 Fernwood Rd, in the upstairs meeting room around the back of the building. Meetings are open to everyone.
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Or visit Café Simpatico [last Friday of the month] and talk to the CASC members at the information table.
