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AfroColombiaResources concerning people in Colombia with an
African heritage. See also AfroColumbia News
Afro-Colombian Solidarity Network (ACSN) - the most effective and important solidarity group, operates from a pan-African perspectIve. Mostly Not US funded. Every Black Colombian group has received funds from US organizations such as USAID and NED. Not a single one appears to have backed the Trump like US candidate, something for Cubans to think about. |
Afro-Colombia: A Case for Pan-African Analysis 5/15/2013 AfroCubaWeb: by Jospeh F. Jordan - "Some who are quoted in this article have gone on to became allies of a Colombian government that was eventually recognized as one of the most corrupt in the Americas and that built an effective governmental and extra- governmental apparatus to frustrate Afro-Colombian attempts to exercise their constitutional rights. In a cynical turn, some of the same Afro-Colombians I had encountered and who had lived and worked in the U.S., ostensibly as politically progressive exiles, returned to become spokespersons for the very government that facilitated the dispossession of Afro-Colombian land in favor of development schemes by mega-corporations. Others allied and aligned themselves with programs generously funded, designed and specifically intended to neutralize or split the growing U.S. support movement for the Afro-Colombia cause. Initially, they were devastatingly effective."
Bibliografía para AfroColombia, Universtitat de Barcelona
Movimiento Social Afrocolombiano, Negro, Raizal y Palenquero: El largo camino
hacia la construcción de espacios comunes y alianzas estratégicas para la
incidencia política en Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 9/2012
El AfroBogotano elafrobogotano.com.co
Afro-Colombian Solidarity Network on Facebook
AMUAFROC - Asociación de Mujeres Afrocolombianas
amuafroc.wordpress.com
América
Negra - Pontificia Universidad Javierana, Colombia
La Revista América Negra es una publicación semestral de la
Expedición Humana que acoge materiales sobre cualquiera de las disciplinas que
se ocupan de la descripción y análisis de las poblaciones humanas. La Revista
hace énfasis en las comunidades negras e indígenas del continente americano y
sus relaciones con poblaciones de otros lugares del mundo.
Grupo Afrodescendiente Discussions
Observatorio de Discriminación Racial
"Colombia has 40 million people – 26 percent of them of African descent, mostly in the Pacific region. Since the period of slavery, we have shared that area with indigenous Native Americans." - Afro-Colombian struggle for land and justice 12/31/02 SF Bay View
Population: 38,580,949 (July 1998 est.)
Ethnic groups: mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed
black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1%
Age structure:
0-14 years: 33% (male 6,474,927; female 6,321,404)
15-64 years: 62% (male 11,725,078; female 12,333,982)
65 years and over: 5% (male 780,486; female 945,072) (July 1998 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.89% (1998 est.)
Birth rate: 24.93 births/1,000 population (1998 est.)
Death rate: 5.69 deaths/1,000 population (1998 est.)
Net migration rate: -0.34 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1998 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.83 male(s)/female (1998 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 25.44 deaths/1,000 live births (1998 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 70.06 years
male: 66.15 years
female: 74.11 years (1998 est.)
Total fertility rate: 2.9 children born/woman (1998 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Colombian(s)
adjective: Colombian
Religions: Roman Catholic 95%
Languages: Spanish
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 91.3%
male: 91.2%
female: 91.4% (1995 est.)
Afro-Colombian Solidarity Network (ACSN) - an effective and important solidarity group, operates from a pan-African perspective.
Many progressive anti racist organizacions in Colombia started out with high hopes but no real plan to achieve economic independence. As time passed, they had to turn somewhere for funds and many chose to go with the Colombian government or the US's NED/USAID. Sometimes these projects have been used for money laundering and other fraud. Since the early 2010's there has been more oversight thanks to a group of 60 Congressmen, as well as Sens Leahy and Pelosi.
USAID funds PCN through the International Migration Organization (IMO). It also funds a number of other organizations through Consejo Nacional de Paz Afrocolombiano CONPA. USAID funds Afrodes and Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia - ONIC directly. ONIC in turn funds a number of groups.
As of 2021, all afrocolombian groups have integrated the US orbit. Given
this, WOLA worked to get USAID to put in conditions criteria and previous
consultation with the legitimate afro and indigenous authorities.
Afrodes - receives NED/USAID funds,
supports CIR.
Centro De Estudios E Investigaciones Sociales Afro Colombianas - CEISAFROCOL
Centro de Investigaciones Etnobiológicas CHINANGO
Ciclo de Estudios Africanos y la Diaspora - CEADA - twitter.com/_CEADA
Cimarrón, finanzado por USAID/NED. Apoya a grupos similares en Cuba.
COCOMACIA - Consejo Comunitario Mayor de La Asociación Campesina Integral del Atrato
CODHES - Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento - www.facebook.com/CodhesDDHH/Corporación para el Desarollo Afrocolombiano - COPRODEPA
Colectivo AfroRaices, Bogota
www.facebook.com/afroraices.colectivo
Consejo Laboral Afrocolombiano - consejolaboralafrocolombiano.org
Consejo Nacional de Paz Afrocolombiano - twitter.com/Conpa_paz
Fundación Activos Culturales Afro - ACUA
Fundación Assim Bonanga Colombia
La Fundación para el Desarrollo y Fortalecimiento de las Comunidades Afrocolombianas FUNDESARROLLOAFRO
Fundación Red Eleggua - ww.facebook.com/fundacion.redeleggua fundacionredeleggua2.wixsite.com/red-eleggua/principal
El Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos Ilsa
IDCARÁN -
Igualdad Racial, Diferencia Cultural, Conflictos Ambientales y Racismos en las
Américas Negras
www.humanas.unal.edu.co/idcaran
Instituto Afrodescendiente para el estudio, la investigación y el desarrollo
Las Mambas Negras de Colombia
www.facebook.com/LasMambasNegrasdeColombia
Francia Márquez Mina
twitter.com/FranciaMarquezM
www.instagram.com/franciamarquezm/
www.facebook.com/FranciaMarquezMina/
Los Palenkes Organizacion Etnica
www.facebook.com/lospalenkes.organizacionetnica/
Luis
Gilberto Murillo - Global Exchange
Luis Gilberto Murillo, a former Colombian governor now exiled in the US,
will travel the country urging people to oppose a larger US role in Colombia's
civil war.
Microsesiones Negras
www.facebook.com/MicrosesionesNegras
Movimiento Cimarron, twitter.com/movcimarron
Movimiento Nacional de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado - MOVICE
Movimiento Nacional Afrocolombiano
Conferencia Nacional de Organizaciones Afrocolombianas CNOA
Movimiento Nacional Afrocolombiano
Observatorio de discriminacion racial (Twitter)
Pelo Bueno, Cirle Tatis
Piedad Córdoba Ruiz - progressive organization
Plan Colombia y PCN (Proceso de Comunidades Negras) - progressive organization
Población AfroDescendiente de America Latina UNDP
Portal Web Cimarrón - www.cimarronracismo.org
Proceso
de Comunidades Negras (PCN) page on AfroCubaWeb - pagina en AfroCubaWeb
Charo Mina-Rojas. Progressive orgnization operating outside of Colombian and US
government interference.
Red de Activismo Judicial Territorial
Red Nacional de Mujeres Afrocolombianas
Red de Mujeres Chocoanas,
Vimeo - progressive organization
www.facebook.com/rdemucho/
US Office on Colombia - Afro-Colombian Groups
Edna Liliana Valencia Murillo, www.instagram.com/vivetupeloafro/
Washington Office on Latin America, WOLA Gimena Sanchez
www.wola.org/people/gimena-sanchez-garzoli/
Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia - www.onic.org.co, funded by USAID
Organizacion Regional Indigena del Cauca -
www.cric-colombia.org/portal/
Meet Carlos Rosero, Process of Black Communities in Colombia
(PCN), 6/23/05, Dorchester, MA
| REFLECT & STRENGTHEN cordially invites you to an evening of knowledge about what's really going on in one of the countries that we as citizens of the United States are financially supporting. Please come and share your thoughts... What do you know about Colombia? Soccer?War? Drugs? Cartels? Do you know about African Communities living in peaceful resistance in Colombia? Although they have been there for centuries, did you know that it wasn't until the 1990’s that the Colombian constitution for the first time recognized the existence of “Afro Colombian Communities” with equal rights as a people in Colombia? Did you know that although they make up about 43% of the Colombian population, only about 1% of Afro Colombians have access to attend a college? Do you know about the struggles of our sisters and brothers due to the military aid provided by the United States to Colombia? Well there's much more to learn and this is your change to speak directly with one of the leaders of the Afro-Colombian movement; Carlos Rosero! Carlos Rosero was a key leader in the creation of PCN, the Process of Black Communities in Colombia. PCN is a national grassroots organization who continuously defends Afro-Colombian territories and peace communities and fights for human rights, which are severely affected by the armed conflict that has expelled thousands of Afro Colombian families from their homes. Come meet one of the most outstanding leaders of the Afro Colombian movement and let’s build a movement of solidarity!!!
This event is co-sponsored in partnership with Reflect & Strengthen, American Friend’s Service Committee and Jobs With Justice |
Afro-Colombian Solidarity Network on Facebook
www.renacientes.org - Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN)
Observatorio de Discriminación Racial
Atlas de las culturas afro colombianas
www.colombiaaprende.edu.co/html/etnias/1604/channel.html
Afro-Colombia: A Case for Pan-African Analysis, Joseph F. Jordan, 2006 with 2013 update, PDF
Human Rights Organizations working with AfroCuban Dissidents and AfroColombian Organizations
A Colombian governor's plea for peace, 2/7/01
| By Luis Gilberto Murillo I am a former governor of Chocó, the most impoverished department of Colombia. In 1998, I tried to declare Chocó a neutral zone, a territory of peace free from the combat ravaging my country. Because of my work for peace, I was kidnapped by people who identified themselves as paramilitaries. Death threats were leveled at my family and myself. Fearing for our lives, we fled to the United States in July of 2000. We now live here in exile. But the majority of the Colombian people do not have the option of exile. They have nowhere to run from the violence in my country. The Bush administration's announcement that it plans to expand the Clinton administration's $1.3 billion aid package to Colombia and its neighbors will only make matters worse for a lot of my fellow citizens. The aid package, which is supposedly intended to help bring a "peaceful and sensible resolution" to Colombia's conflict, is a grave mistake. It will force Americans to pay with their checkbooks, and Colombians with their lives. Sixty percent of the aid the Colombian government is receiving will be going to the Colombian military, notorious for having one of the worst human-rights records in the world. According to Human Rights Watch's most recent annual report, "Colombia's armed forces continue to be implicated in serious human rights violations." Paramilitary groups, working closely with the Colombian military, often harass and terrorize citizens. Just last month, right-wing paramilitaries entered the village of Chengue in northern Colombia before dawn and herded the men of the village into the town square. The paramilitaries then killed at least 25 of them with sledgehammers and rocks, as their families watched, before setting fire to houses and shops. Survivors told the Washington Post that the Colombian military provided safe passage to the paramilitaries and sealed off the area to facilitate the massacre. There are now more than 1.8 million Colombians who are refugees within our own country. Left with no other option, some move to the large cities and join the ranks of the urban poor. Others, desperate and destitute, join guerrilla organizations or the paramilitaries for survival. The cycle of oppression and poverty continues, and the conflict deepens. But peace, for so long a distant prospect, has begun to light the Colombian horizon. In October 2000, the long-ignored Colombian people met with representatives of the Colombian government and rebel groups in Costa Rica in a conference named Paz Colombia (Peace Colombia). This conference was an attempt to begin a democratic dialogue that will bring a political and peaceful end to Colombia's civil conflict. Only two years ago, such a meeting between the intensely divided sectors of the Colombian people would have been difficult to bring about. Even the left-for-dead peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC, Colombia's largest rebel group, have been resuscitated. Colombian President Andres Pastrana and FARC leader Manuel Marulanda are meeting this week to revive the talks. Despite these overtures, the Bush administration has unwisely decided to extend weapons to Colombia instead of olive branches. As a result, the hopeful glow of peace dims in the darkness of this 40-year war. The Colombian military, newly trained and armed by the United States, is planning major offensives in the south. The guerrillas, battle-tested after four decades in the jungle, are digging in, preparing for the upcoming battles. And the Colombian people are caught in between. They desperately want -- and deserve -- to live in a country without war. Luis Gilberto Murillo is a former governor of the department of Chocó, and the youngest person ever to be elected governor in Colombia. He and his family currently reside in the Washington, D.C., area. He can be reached at pmproj@progressive.org |
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