Ecumenical Advocacy Days in Washington, March 5 - 8
From the Presbyterian Washington Office
YOU ARE INVITED TO
Ecumenical Advocacy Days For Global
Peace with Justice
March 5-8,
2004
Washington, DC
"I WILL FEED THEM WITH JUSTICE"
www.advocacydays.org
People of faith from across the United
States will gather to learn and take action together for peace and justice
in Colombia and throughout the world.
The event will include dynamic speakers,
workshops, advocacy training, and time for sharing and networking with
gathered advocates.
Comprehensive briefings will help you
prepare for meetings with your members of Congress and their aides.
Issue Tracks will be offered on Latin
America, Africa, Asia, The Middle East, Jubilee and Economic Justice, and
Nuclear Disarmament.
In the Latin America track experts from
Colombia and Washington, DC will present at workshops and plenaries on:
Peace and Politics in Colombia with the
Rev. Milton Mejia (Presbyterian Church, Colombia) and Rep. Jim McGovern
(invited)
Workshops:
- Colombia 101, Lisa Haugaard (Latin
America Working Group)
- Afro-Colombians
- In the Midst of Conflict, Luis Gilberto
Murillo (Lutheran World Relief) and Marino Cordoba (Association of Displaced
Afro-Colombians)
- The Plight of the Internally Displaced,
Mary Delorey (Catholic Relief Services) and Jesuit Relief Services (invited)
- Role of Churches and Peace Initiatives,
The Rev. Milton Mejia and Andrew Fandino (Peace Brigades International)
- Drug Policy, Sanho Tree (Institute for
Policy Studies, invited) and John Walsh (invited)
- US Cuba Policy, Mavis Anderson (Latin
America Working Group) and Delvis Fernandez (Cuban-American Alliance)
- Free Trade Area of the Americas, Karen
Hansen Kuhn (Development GAP, invited), Marty Shupak (Mennonite Central
Committee, invited)
SIGN UP NOW!! To learn more and register
for the event go to
www.advocacydays.org.
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Ecumenical Advocacy Days
for Global Peace with Justice
I will seek the lost, and I will bring back
the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak,
but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice. -
Ezekiel 34:16
For more information, contact:
Catherine Gordon,
PC(U.S.A.) Washington Office,
110 Maryland Avenue, NE #104,
Washington, DC 20002.
202-543-1126, fax 202-543-7755.
Email cgordon@ctr.pcusa.org
