upcoming film - "The War We Are Living" - January 16, 2012

* * * CHANGE OF VENUE * * * 

The AfroColombia NY and Colombian Studies Group event

on Monday, January 16, 6:30 pm

featuring a documentary and conversation with AfroColombiana leaders

Francia Marquez and Clemencia

HAS CHANGED ITS VENUE!

THE EVENT WILL *NOW* BE HELD AT

Terraza 7 Cafe

40-19 Gleane Street, Queens, New York

Take Train 7, Near 82nd and Roosevelt

http://www.terrazacafe.com/

Please join us for this night of solidarity AND music!

conversation followed by music from acclaimed Colombian artists

Gregorio Uribe

http://www.myspace.com/diegoobregon

&

Diego Obregon from Grupo Chonta

http://www.gregoriouribe.com/

We hope you can join us at Terraza!

for more information, contact yesenia@afrocolombiany.org

AfroColombia NY and the Colombian Studies Group (CUNY Graduate Center) 

would like to invite you to a very special evening

of solidarity and political strategy 

featuring a documentary 

"The War We Are Living" 

part of the acclaimed PBS series Women, War & Peace 

and conversation with 

 Clemencia Carabali and Francia Marquez

Afro-Colombian Leaders featured in the film

on Monday, January 16 at 6:30 p.m. 

310 W. 43^rd Street (Close to 8^th Avenue)

7^th Floor, Rooms 2A/2B

SEIU 1199 East-Latin American Solidarity Committee

The film highlights the efforts of two extraordinary Afro-Colombian women who are defying powerful mining interests and paramilitary death threats to protect their community and the land that sustains them. They are standing up for a generation of Colombians who have been terrorized and forcibly displaced as a deliberate strategy of war.

Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.

Please RSVP at yesenia@afrocolombiany.org