CONTACT THESE ORGANIZATIONS:
Chicago Colombia Committee
-ttp.//www.prairienet.ora/clm/chicol
An independent, grass roots human
rights organization working to foster
a peaceful and just resolution to the
conflict in Colombia.
260 W Fullerton Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
(773) 489-1255
Colombia Human Rights Network
http'Lwww.igc.orrg CIhrnet
A network of organizations in several
U.S. cities, working to defend and
promote human rights in Colombia
through binational coalition build-
ing. Contact through:
Colombia Human Rights Committee
RO. Box 3130
Washington, DC 20010
(202) 232-8148
Colombian Labor Monitor
http:m/iww.prairienet.or/rim/home
page.html
An independent, labor-rights organi-
zation that fosters international soli-
darity with the Colombian labor
movement.
2618 W Gregory St
Chicago, IL 60625
(773) 794-2605
Colombia Support Network
httpl://www.colombiasupport.net A non-governmental organization doing human rights work in
Colombia and building solidarity
between the peoples of that country and North America. Publishes Action on Colombia and Colombia Bulletin.
P.O. Box 1505
Madison, WI 53701
(608) 257-8753
Consultoria para los Derechos
Humanos y el Desplazamiento (COD-
HES) htto-I/www.codhes.orq.co
Colombian human rights group focusing on displaced persons.
Calle 19 No. 3-50 Of. 1405
9018 Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia
3342107-3425804
Global Exchange
httnA/\ww.9lobalexchanoe.orgtcolo
mbia
Non-profit research, education, and
action center dedicated to promot-
ing people-to-people ties around the
world. Recently initiated a project to promote peace and justice in
Colombia.
2017 Mission St Rm 303 San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 255-7296 x 228
School of the Americas Watch
Independent organization that seeks
to close the U.S. Army School of the
Americas through actions as well as media and legislative work.
P.O- Box 4566 Washington, DC 20017
(202) 234-3440
U'wa Defense Working Group
http1/MAww.moles.orgnuwAdex.ht
ml Homepage of a coalition dedicated to protecting the U'wa people of
Colombia. Includes information and
action alerts about the struggle
against efforts of Occidental Petroleum and the Colombian gov-
ernment to drill for oil in the U'was'
sacred homeland.
IN-DEPTH INFORMATION ON AND
ANALYSIS OF EVENTS IN
COLOMBIA:
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.orgc
322 8th Ave New York, NY 10001
(212) 807-8400
Center for International Policy
httpil/www.cionline orglcolgmbi a/ 1755 Massachusetts Ave NW, Suite
312 Washington, DC 20036
(202) 232-3317
Colombia Media Project
(Has a large collection of videos
about Colombia) P.O. Box 1091 GPO
New York, NY 10116
(212) 802-7209
Colombia Report http://www.colombiareport.ora
P.O. Box 20314
New York, NY 10009
Equipo Nizkor
http/Awww.dertechos.oro/nizkor
(Spanish human rights organization.)
Apartado de Correo 156037
Madrid-Espahia
Email: nizkor@derechos.org
Fundaci6n para la Libertad de Prensa
(FLIP) htpi/,BAwv'ipcoloMba.org
(Works for freedom of the press and
protection of journalists in
Colombia.) Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia
(571) 544-0010
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hvy.org
350 Fifth Ave, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
(212) 290-4700
Information Services Latin America
(ISLA)
http: /www.iQc.orq/isla/ PRO. Box 6103
Albany, CA 94706
(510) 559-8796
Institute Latinoamericano
de Servicios Legales Alternativos
www.ilsa.org.co
Calle 38 #16-45
AP 077844, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia (571) 288-0416
Latin American Network Information
Center (LANIC)
http://info~lanic.utexas.edulla/colom-
Institute of Latin American Studies
Sid W. Richardson Hall 1.310
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
Latin America Working Group
httpl/wwwIawo.ora 110 Maryland Ave NE, Box 15, Suite
203
Washington, DC 20002 (202) 546-7010
The Sunshine Project
(Information about plans to use her-
bicidal fungi in Colombia) www.sunshine-project.org
Washington Office on Latin America
(WOLA)
httpilvwww.wola.org
VOL XXXIV, No 2 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2000 55RESOURCES ON COLOMBIA
1630 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite
200
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 797-2171
HELPFUL READING ABOUT
COLOMBIA:
The Andean Cocaine Industry by
Patrick L. Clawson and Rensselaer
W. Lee Ill (New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1998). Describes the cocaine
industry in Colombia, Peru, and
Bolivia, from growers to traffick-
ers-and U.S. and European con-
nections to the trade.
Colombia: The Genocidal
Democracy by Javier Giraldo, SiJ.
(Monroe, ME: Common Courage
Press, 1997). Excellent description
of human rights violations commit-
ted by the military and paramilitary
groups, and the two institutions'
connections to each other.
Colombia's Killer Networks by
Human Rights Watch (Washington:
Human Rights Watch, 1996).
Focuses on the U.S.overhaul of
Colombia's miitary intelligence net-
work, which has resulted in further
ties between the Colombian mili-
tary and paramilitary groups.
Fiction of War (documentary video) (1WorldProduction, 1999). 43 min-
utes. Available at (413) 323-7629,
$30. Compelling depiction of the
Colombian military's brutality
towards the main victims of the
ongoing civil war: civilians, who are
not linked to any armed actors in
the conflict, but whom the armed
forces consider enemies. Victims tell
their stories in their own words.
The Palace of justice: A Colombian
Tragedy by Ana Carrigan (New
York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993). Gripping portrayal of events
in 1985, when M-19 guerrillas took
the Colombian Supreme Court
Justices hostage. Carrigan shows
that the Colombian Army staged a
de facto coup by wiping out the
independent judiciary and putting
the country's president in a sub-.
servient position to the military.
State-Building and Conflict
Resolution in Colombia: 1986-1994, by Harvey S. Kline (Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 1999).
Account of the Colombian govern-
ment's attempts during the period
in question to peacefully end vio- lence by guerrillas, drug traffickers
and paramilitary groups; and why
those efforts were unsuccessful.
Contemporary Crisis in Historical
Perspective edited by Charles
Bergquist (1992, out of print but
worth finding).
Must-read collection of essays that
covers the nineteenth century to
the 1 980s, and contextualizes
Colombia's contemporary crisis by describing the history of the vio-
lence and its social and economic
structures.
Thanks to Garry Leech and
Colombia Report for assisting in the
compilation of this resource list.
