YOUTH DELEGATION in COLOMBIA 2009

Wherever you're at, youth are being forced to fight these wars we have nothing to do with. Youth in Colombia face more pressure, but there's plenty of pressure here, psychological pressure. The delegation to Colombia changed my views personally -- about how I want to interact with people besides politically, about how to bring their ways of organizing here, bring being a human being back to your community and starting that change in your own home and family. If there's anything we need in the US, it's the need to start organizing on that personal level."
- Escenthio Marigny, Youth Arts and Action Delegation '08 participant

Youth Arts and Action Delegation, March 27 – April 6, 2009

This spring 2009 the Fellowship of Reconciliation Colombia program will take a delegation of youth organizers and allies to collaborate with dynamic youth-led organizations working for the rights of Conscientious Objectors and advocating for anti-militarism in Colombia. The participants will continue to expand the network of youth in the US and Colombia who are seeking creative ways to resist militarism. This delegation will also be the focus of a documentary film produced by two participants through the Dar Papaya Project. This organizers exchange builds on the first youth arts and action delegation in March of 2008 and the fall 2008 Drop Beats Not Bombs hip-hop, speaking and workshop tour. For more information, please contact Liza Smith at 510.763.1403 or liza@igc.org or www.forcolombia.org/youthdelegation, applications are due by February 1st, 2009.