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Date: Fri Mar 09 2007 - 09:40:36 EST
---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: URGENT SOLIDARITY WITH THE COLOMBIAN JOURNALIST CARLOS LOZANO From: "Info" <info@oceanbooks.com.au> Date: Fri, March 9, 2007 12:17 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear friends of Ocean Press We are circulating the message below regarding the threats against Carlos Lozano, editor of the Colombian weekly "Voz" and author of the recently published book from Ocean Sur "Guerra o Paz en Colombia: Cincuenta Aņos de un Conflicto sin Solucion." http://www.oceanbooks.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=168 <http://www.oceanbooks.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=168&osCsid=be6cb384a3ae490f590b87a524866e81> &osCsid=be6cb384a3ae490f590b87a524866e81 This book offers a historical perspective on the long-running conflict in Colombia, analysing the role of the US and the war on drugs, the right-wing paramilitaries, and the left-wing guerrilla movements, and finally discussing the real possibilities for achieving peace. We would really appreciate if you can help us in circulating this message. Ocean Press info@oceanbooks.com.au www.oceanbooks.com.au Medellin, Colombia, March 4th, 2007. Dear friends I am sending you a message which we are moving in Colombia in solidarity with the journalist Carlos Lozano. Would you agree in subscribe it and maybe circulate it? All the best, Fernando Rendsn Director International Poetry Festival of Medellin URGENT SOLIDARITY WITH THE JOURNALIST CARLOS LOZANO The President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe last week framed, unfoundedly and publicly, a very serious accusation against Carlos Lozano, editor of the weekly VOZ. With this attitude, president Uribe placed Lozano in a situation of personal risk that blurs his efforts and those made by many groups of citizens to contribute to the establishment of a real democracy in Colombia. Besides expressing our solidarity with Carlos Lozano as a leader of the Colombian democratic left, we wish to invite president Uribe to correct his imputation. The Chief Executive must give a democratic example facing his political opponents. The efforts of civilians to find channels to put an end to the unjust and lengthy situation of dozens of Colombians deprived of their freedom by the guerrilla groups, cannot be the motive of a witches' hunt. In all conflicts there are good will mediators, who contribute to bring the parties closer in order to avoid or reduce the impact of the confrontation on innocent civilians. We understand that president Uribe is under great pressure on account of the increasing wave of arrests of government employees and his political allies in Congress on the basis of their relations with paramilitary groups. However, this situation does not qualify him to accuse members of the democratic left. To promote channels for violent actors to abandon their practices against civilians is quite a different thing than being, as is his case, a direct beneficiary of the illicit paramilitary activities. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize of Literature (Nigeria); Chico Whitaker, cofounder of the World Social Forum, Alternative Nobel Prize (Brazil); Ruth Manorama, Alternative Nobel Prize (India); Martin Almada, Alternative Nobel Prize (Paraguay); Laura Restrepo, writer; Juan Manuel Roca, poet; Bei Dao, poet (China); Jaime Ballesteros, president of OSPAAAL (Spain); Jeremy Dear, president of Journalist Union (United Kingdom); Liam Craig-Best, director of Justicia for Colombia, London (United Kingdom); Horacio Serpa Uribe, ex candidate presidential; Jaime Caycedo, general secretary of PCC; Alvaro Vasquez, political leader of PCC; Patrick Le Hyaric, director of newspaper L'Humaniti (France), Carlos Payan, journalist and director of newspaper La Jornada (Mexico); N.P. Samy, Secretary of Coordination of National Centre for Labour -NCL- (India); Hernando Calvo Ospina, writer and journalist; Ramsn Jimeno, Jorge Enrique Botero, Hollman Morris, Nohra Parra, Guillermo Gonzalez Uribe, Oscar Dommnguez, journalists; Fernando Garavito, poet and journalist refugee; Gloria Rammrez, senator del PDA; Wilson Borja, parliamentary of PDA; Pascual Serrano, journalist (Spain); Pietro Lora Alarcsn, ACNUR (Brazil); Pascual Serrano, journalist (Spain); Fernando Rendsn, Gabriel Jaime Franco, poets, Gloria Chvatal, painter (International Poetry Festival of Medellin, Alternative Nobel Prize 2006), Alonso Ojeda Awad, university teacher and ex ambassador of Colombia in Hungary; Desmond Egan, poet (Ireland); Dick Emanuelsson, Zoltan Tiroler, journalists (Sweden); Jeszs Abad Colorado, photographer; Aida Avella, ex president UP, refugee (Switzerland); Issa Makhlouf, Joumana Haddad, poets (Lebanon); Otto Higuita, member of National Direction PDA; Claudia Flsrez, general secretary Juco; Anders Rudqvist, universitary teacher (Sweeden); Lesn Valencia, journalist; Valirie Techer, France-Amirique Latine; Permanent Committee by the Defense of the Human Rights; Hictor Abarca, director of Radio New America (Sweeden); Luis Eduardo Salcedo, speaker of the Assembly of the Civil Society by the Peace; Luis Alberto Matta, Action for Justice and Peace (Canada); Bernard Nvel, poet (France); Anne Waldman, poet and director of Jack Kerouac Poetry School (Estados Unidos); Aitana Alberti, poet, member of organization of the International Poetry Festival of La Habana (Cuba-Spain); Ersi Sotiropoulo, poet (Greece); Anzhelina Polonskaya, poet (Russia); Osvaldo Sauma, poet (Costa Rica); Qassim Haddad, poet (Bahrain); Michael Krueger, Gerhard Falkner, poets (Germany); Ibrahim Nasralah, poet (Jordan); Cathy Ceibe, journalist, L4Humaniti (France); Nidaa Khoury, poet (Palestine); Alba Donatti, poet (Italy); Adamou Idi, poet (Nmger), Marianne Larsen, poet (Denmark); Mario Ossaba, painter; Chenjerai Hove, poet (Zimbabwe); Alberto Nessi, Irene Baumann, Alexandre Gillet, poets, Claude Darbellay (Switzerland); Conceigao Lima, poet (Sao Tome and Prince); Birgitta Jonsdsttir, poet (Iceland); Forrest Hylton, historian (United States); Ana Rosseti, Juan Carlos Mestre, poets (Spain); Amina Said, poet (Tunicia); Ernest Pipin (Guadalupe); Bengt Berg, poet (Sweeden); Ivan Cepeda, human wrights defender; Marma Baranda, Marco Antonio Campos, Lina Zersn, poets (Mexico); Rosa Alice Branco, Fernando Aguiar, poets (Portugal); Nicolas Suescun, Julian Malatesta, J. Mario Arbelaez, Armando Romero, Eduardo Gsmez, Robinson Quintero, Giovanni Gsmez, Alvaro Marmn, Carlos Patiqo; Colombian poets; Hussein Habasch, poet (Syria); Pedro Badran Padaum, writer; Raoul Schrott, poet (Austria); Arlis Herrera, caricaturist; Consuelo Tomas, Pablo Menacho, poets (Panama); Josi Fort, Bernard Duraud, Hassane Zerrouky, Maote Pinero, Osange Silou-Kieffer, journalists (France); Eduardo Dalter, Mario Sampaolessi, Fabian Casas, Daniel Samoilovich, Rogelio Ramos, Carlos Barbarito, poets (Argentina); Juan Guillermo Rammrez, crmtico de cine; Wisam Hashem, Anwar Al-Ghassani, poets (Abdulhadi Sadun, (Iraq); Juan Cameron, Sergio Badilla, Eduardo Llanos, Lionel Lienlaf, poets (Chile); Vmctor Manuel Moncayo, ex director Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Oscar Dueqas, jurist; Hildebrando Vilez, Friends of the Hearth; Tugrul Tanyol, Adnan Ozer, poets (Turkey); Mahmoudan Hawad, poet (Saharahui Republic); Zlatko Krasni, poet (Serbia); Lasana Sekou, poet and editor (San Martin); Naim Araidy, poeta (Israel); Carlos Vidales, historian; Hictor Rosales, Roberto Mascars, poets (Uruguay); Neshe Yashi, poet (Chipre); Norberto Codina, poet (Cuba); Jean Portante, poet (Luxembourg); Gaston Bellemare, editor and director of International Poetry Festival of Trois Rivihres (Canada); Jean-Claude Villain, poet (France); Augusto Escobar, university teacher; Pepe Viqoles, painter and journalist (Uruguay-Sweeden); Francisco Hinojosa, writer (Mexico); Koulsy Lamsko, poet (Tchad); Jacobo Rauskin, Susy Delgado, poets (Paraguay); Abdouhraman Waberi, poet (Djibouti); Iztok Ozojnik, poet (Slovenia); Francisco Morales Santos, poet (Guatemala); Hanne Haga, poet (Norway); Adhely Rivero, Enrique Hernandez D4Jeszs, Gonzalo Fragui, Pablo Mora, poets (Venezuela); Fazal Shahabudin, poet (Bangladesh); Martha Gantier, poeta (Bolivia); Ramsn Trujillo (Filipinas); Ivan Oqate, Edwin Madrid, Aleyda Quevedo, poets (Ecuador); Sia Figiel, poet (Samoa); Josi Marmol, poet (Dominican Republic); Nassar Abdallah Nassar, poet (Egypt); Isaac Goldemberg, poet (Peru); Luiz de Miranda, poeta (Brazil); Idris Tayeb, poet (Libia); Miguel Huezo Mixco, poet (El Salvador); Armando Orozco, Isabel Mayorga; Angela Garcma, Ricardo Cuillar, Luz Helena Cordero, Mery Yolanda Sanchez, Vmctor Razl Jaramillo, Darmo Sanchez Carvalho, Eva Duran, Zabier Hernandez, Mauricio Vidales, Omar Ortiz, Felipe Agudelo Tenorio, Vmctor Lspez Rache, Federico Dmaz Granados, Winston Morales, J. Arturo Sanchez; Ivan Enrmquez, Marlene Mejma, Hernando Guerra, Tatiana Mejma; Emilio Ballesteros, Josi Luis Colegial, Carlos Fajardo, Colombian poets; Alfredo Castaqeda, sculptor; Milcias Arivalo, writer and director of the literary magazine Puesto de Combate; Winston Porras, Rafael Quiroz, Amalfi Rendsn, painters; Jean Ortiz, Stiphane Bonnery, masters of conferences (France); Jonathan Fortich, Francisco Ordsqez, filmmakers; Gabriel Ruiz Arbelaez, journalist and director of NTC; Manuel Giraldo -Magil-, Eframn Medina, Eduardo Marceles Daconte, Pablo Montoya, Fabio Martmnez, Josi Martmnez Sanchez, Isamas Peqa Gutiirrez, writers; Hilhne Claudot-Hawad, anthropologist (France); Henry Posada, Fernando Ortega, cultural journalists; Susana Gonzalez; Carlos Lspez Tascsn; Sara Cifuentes, journalist and writer; Juan Armando Epple, academic and writer (Chile); Nicole Cage-Florentiny, poet (Martinica); Tanella Boni (Ivory Coast); Maria Kallin, editor (Sweeden); Eleazar Plaza, editor of Arte and Parte, Cali; Ligia Mejma, Association of Refugees of Latinamerican and Caribe (Belgium); Josi Henry Ocampo (CUT, Caldas); Gelman Mznera, theatre director; Daniel Rocha, actor; Andersson Delgado (Group Hip Hop 1320); Hernando Morales, Ovidio Rza, musicians; Athemay Sterling, Luz Marina Lspez, Abimael Castro, Alberto Chavarro, Gina Ruz Rojas, Andrea Monsalve, Amaury Padilla, journalist; Olimpo Cardenas, Rubin Zapata, Nelson Orrego, journalist of newspaper Periferia; Dione Brand, Jean Marc Desgent, poet (Canada); Francisco Amin Mosquera; Liliam Gsmez, Ph.D.; Alfonso Conde Cotes, Sergio de Zubirma, Amilcar Guido, Rubin Darmo Arroyo, German Cobo, Alirio Urrego, Josi Ramsn Llanos, Alfredo Holgumn, Jaime Sanabria, Vmctor de Currea Lugo, Jeszs Gualdrsn, Alcides Cuello Orozco, university teachers; Alfonso Castillo, human wrights defender, ANDAS; Te Kupu (New Zealand); Vicente Rodrmguez N., Joumana Haddad, poets (Puerto Rico); Alfredo Ortiz, Nahum Mznera, Noe Ledesma, Marco Prieto, cultural activists; Adriana Giraldo Ochoa; Camilo Vega Gonzalez; Colombian women in the world; Ludoviko Martmnez, historian and journalist; Hictor Arenas, Latin America Foundation; Rafael Escobar de Andreis; Luis Carlos Jaramillo Pontsn; Claudia Clavijo, investigator (Spain); Hernando Perdomo, lawyer (Spain); Rodrigo Echeverri; Martha Helena Restrepo; Elvira Concheiro, writer (Mexico); Consuelo Sanchez, anthropologist (Mexico); Ivan Darmo Qungo Mican; Alvaro Luna Porras, sociologist; Hernando Romero Pereira, pedagogue; Rodrigo Buelvas; Isnardo Grandas Rincsn; Jorge Aristizabal, engineer; Rodrigo Acosta, administrator; Miguel Alvarez, mathematic; Walberto Torres, lawyer; Adolfo Cortis, engineer; Luis Aurelio Ordsqez, economist and historian; Jaime Alvarez Llanos, Francisco Bohsrquez, historian; Diego Romero, social activist; Fidel Llinas Zurita, philosopher; Ricardo Villegas Padilla, teacher; Consuelo Granados; Pablo Llontyo, magazine Caras y Caretas; Hictor J. Freire -poet, chef and redaction of poetry magazine Barataria, chef and redaction of cultural magazine La Pecera- (Argentina); Silvia Blair, midica; Camilo Cuervo, philosopher; Ruth Alba Garcma, Ricardo Tascsn, docentes; Fernando Rivera, Fernando Flsrez, economistas; Camila Rivera, sicsloga; Alberto Chavarro, politslogo; German Prieto; Henry Olarte Suarez; Edgar Bautista, Rosa Inis Noriega; Fabian Parada; Ricardo Quijano Altamirano, artist; Luz Beatriz Puerta Mesa, gourmet; Enrique Sierra Sanchez, economist; Alfonso Torres; Lucila Castro; Maria Piedad Ossaba, journalist (France); Jzpiter Ossaba, universitary student (France); Isabel Botero, journalist; Federico Garcma (Spain); Miguel Angel Mejma; Luis Felipe Lesn, lawyer; Guillermo Hoyos Vasquez; Julien Rebotier, geographer (France); Beatriz Ortega, Nidia Naranjo, Leidy Acevedo, Cristian Acevedo, Alejandro Cometa, Ignacio Trujillo, Felipe Posada, Karen Botero, universitary students; Maria Teresa Pinzon Rodrmguez; Domingo Domingo; Jairo Espinoza, refugee (Bilgica); Antonio Garcma Lozada; Toni Solo; Lucila Reyes; Cisar Torres, academic and militant of PDA; Lia Isabel Alvear, engineering agronomic. fearn@epm.net.co ___________________________________________________________ Enviado por: Armando Rama Martell Oficina del capmtulo cubano En defensa de la humanidad http://www.defensahumanidad.cult.cu
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