[Peace] Fwd: Building Alternatives in Guatemala!!!

[Tina Gersdorf]

--- Illinois Disciples Foundation
<xx207 at prairienet.org> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:40:29 -0600 (CST)
> From: Illinois Disciples Foundation
> <xx207 at prairienet.org>
> To: idf-l at prairienet.org
> Subject: Building Alternatives in Guatemala!(correct
> date)
> 
> 
>      Come to the IDF on Feb. 17th to hear a
> first-hand account of the
> struggles for human rights in Guatemala from Jesus
> Tecu Osorio, a
> Maya-Achi man who witnessed the massacre of Rio
> Negro in 1982 and has been
> fighting for social justice ever since!
> 
>
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> 
>                     "Building Alternatives in
> Guatemala"
>           A presentation by Jesus Tecu Osorio and
> Jessica Pupovac
> 
>                           Monday, Feb. 17th at 7pm
> 
>            Wisegarver Hall at the Illinois Disciples
> Foundation
>                    (NW corner of Springfield and
> Wright)
> 
>
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> 
>      Jesus Tecu Osorio, a Maya-Achi man from
> Guatemala, survived a massacre 
> on March 13, 1982 in Rio Negro that killed 177 women
> and children. This and 
> three other massacres in Rio Negro were committed by
> the Guatemalan Army and 
> paramilitaries, all backed by the US, because the
> Rio Negro villagers
> opposed resettling to make way for a hydro-electric
> project. Jesus has received 
> several international human rights awards for his
> efforts to exhume mass 
> graves, provide legal support for Achi people,
> document the genocide. Jesus 
> will show a half-hour film about his life at the
> presentation.
>      Also, copies of his book, “Memoria de las
> Masacres de Rio Negro” will 
> be available (in Spanish and English) at the event!
>      Jessica Pupovac, originally from C-U, works in
> Guatemala doing human 
> rights accompaniment work with Rights Action.
> 
>      For more information, contact the IDF at (217)
> 352-8721 or 
> idf at prairienet.org, or visit us at
> www.prairienet.org/idf.
> 
> Cosponsored by: 85% Coalition, AFL-CIO of Champaign
> County, Activist
> Forum, AWARE, Center for Latin American and
> Caribbean Studies, Common Ground Food 
> Cooperative, El Centro Por Los Trabajadores,
> Independent Media Center, La 
> Casa Cultural Latina, Mexican Students Association,
> Progressive 
> Resource/Action Cooperative, St. Jude’s Catholic
> Worker House, School for 
> Designing a Society, Service and Outreach Committee
> of First Mennonite 
> Church, Students for World Improvement (UHS), U-C
> Friends Meeting, 
> Channing-Murray, UIUC Dept. of Anthropology,
> University YMCA.
> 
> The Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF) is a peace
> with justice campus 
> ministry.
> 
> IDF, 610 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign, IL  61820
> 


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