A call of solidarity with the social movements of Colombia in this 516th
anniversary of the European invasion.

Once again approaching the anniversary of the invasion initiated by
Christopher Columbus which is continually mistaken in great offense as the
discovery of the continent that today we call America, we bees, compañeras
ants and other animals and plants of Abya Yala (South America) have
concluded with buzzing from a continual minga of thought. Recognizing that…

in the 516 years of the European invasion, the ethnocide, territorial
expulsion and plundering of the first peoples of the continent called
America and the Caribbean continues,

in the 189 years that this country liberated itself from Spain, we lie to
ourselves that we are free when we simply exchanged Iberian masters for
Criollo masters,

in the 156 years that the "legal" slavery of the afro descendent populations
ended the State continues to promote a racist oppression manifested in the
socio-cultural, institutional and environmental,

in the last 44 years of the country's armed conflict which is also a
political and economic conflict, the situation has been untruly
contextualized that the groups referred to as guerrillas, such as the FARC,
ELN and others in history, are the reason the conflict exists and not as the
result of a society in conflict because of large differences of equality and
equity that are profoundly unjust and oppressive. As part of this false
contextualization, the paramilitary groups such as the AUC, Águilas Negras,
Campesinos Embejucados, among others, have been founded, bred and spread by
wide sectors of the State, few privileged families and national and
transnational companies, protecting their personal economic interests
against a peoples who demand the rights' to a life and territory with
dignity,

in the 9 years of Plan Colombia communities and territories have been
destroyed by means of militarization and aerial fumigations of glyphosphate,
in its second phase it has costumed itself to appear to be a aid of social
character though with true intention of infiltrating, debilitating and
finishing off the popular and social movements of the country,

in the last weeks the strikes and resistance of the employees of the
judicial branches, the sugarcane cutters in Valle and Cauca which have had
more than 35 wounded by means of State repression, the truck drivers
reconsidering resuming their strike because of the State's lack of
maintaining their commitments from previous negotiations, and the
assassinations by the National Army of two compañeros of the indigenous
guard of the indigenous resguardo of Pastos in Cumbal, Nariño,

in the last days the assassination of the indigenous governor Raul Mendoza
of the cabildo Peñon this past September 28th in Popayan, Cauca, as well as
the assassinations of leaders like the youth Ever Gonzalez of the Committee
of the Integration of the Colombian Macizo-CIMA and César Marin of the ANUC
in Cauca, Nicholas Neira, Johnny Silva, and many more whose assassinations
continue in a perpetual state of impunity, in addition the Andrés Palomino
in the city of Cali continues to be kidnapped, imprisoned by the State since
this past April 3rd when the ESMAD isolated the university autonomy of the
Universidad of Valle.

Within this social and political habitat, the populist dictator Álvaro
Uribe, the supreme focal point of the paramilitary politics (para política),
continues to offer the country to the interests of transnational companies
and the government of the United States of North America by means of his
persistence of a un-consulted and widely rejected FTA. This facilitated by
an array of policies such as the Rural Statute, Paramos Law, Plan of Waters,
Mining Code, extensive reforestations of monocrops to be used as biofuels,
the widening of the use of genetically modified crops varieties and agro
chemicals that erode food sovereignty and the vitality of the territories
biodiversity and the implementation of megaprojects, disguised as
development, as part of the Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP) and the Iniciativa de
Integración Regional Suramericana (IIRSA).

The evident is that as the State tightens the grip of its chokehold, the
persistence of the right to freedom and self determination of the peoples
strengthens. For these reasons amongst many others, we South American bees
and other plants and animals, send this calling for that before, during and
after the 12th of October, multiple and diverse acts of direct action be
realized against the locations of the consulates and embassies of the
Colombian State outside of the national territory, in solidarity with the
continued and permanent acts of struggles and resistances of the indigenous
peoples, afro descendents, peasants, popular urban sectors and students of
the country that today encompasses us. We call the Colombian State be has
strongly challenged internationally as the peoples from our regions are
doing so within the national territory. That the wide, deep and strong
unconformity of our peoples be felt in all spaces in which State is
present.n this 516th
anniversary of the European invasion.

Once again approaching the anniversary of the invasion initiated by
Christopher Columbus which is continually mistaken in great offense as the
discovery of the continent that today we call America, we bees, compañeras
ants and other animals and plants of Abya Yala (South America) have
concluded with buzzing from a continual minga of thought. Recognizing that…

in the 516 years of the European invasion, the ethnocide, territorial
expulsion and plundering of the first peoples of the continent called
America and the Caribbean continues,

in the 189 years that this country liberated itself from Spain, we lie to
ourselves that we are free when we simply exchanged Iberian masters for
Criollo masters,

in the 156 years that the "legal" slavery of the afro descendent populations
ended the State continues to promote a racist oppression manifested in the
socio-cultural, institutional and environmental,

in the last 44 years of the country's armed conflict which is also a
political and economic conflict, the situation has been untruly
contextualized that the groups referred to as guerrillas, such as the FARC,
ELN and others in history, are the reason the conflict exists and not as the
result of a society in conflict because of large differences of equality and
equity that are profoundly unjust and oppressive. As part of this false
contextualization, the paramilitary groups such as the AUC, Águilas Negras,
Campesinos Embejucados, among others, have been founded, bred and spread by
wide sectors of the State, few privileged families and national and
transnational companies, protecting their personal economic interests
against a peoples who demand the rights' to a life and territory with
dignity,

in the 9 years of Plan Colombia communities and territories have been
destroyed by means of militarization and aerial fumigations of glyphosphate,
in its second phase it has costumed itself to appear to be a aid of social
character though with true intention of infiltrating, debilitating and
finishing off the popular and social movements of the country,

in the last weeks the strikes and resistance of the employees of the
judicial branches, the sugarcane cutters in Valle and Cauca which have had
more than 35 wounded by means of State repression, the truck drivers
reconsidering resuming their strike because of the State's lack of
maintaining their commitments from previous negotiations, and the
assassinations by the National Army of two compañeros of the indigenous
guard of the indigenous resguardo of Pastos in Cumbal, Nariño,

in the last days the assassination of the indigenous governor Raul Mendoza
of the cabildo Peñon this past September 28th in Popayan, Cauca, as well as
the assassinations of leaders like the youth Ever Gonzalez of the Committee
of the Integration of the Colombian Macizo-CIMA and César Marin of the ANUC
in Cauca, Nicholas Neira, Johnny Silva, and many more whose assassinations
continue in a perpetual state of impunity, in addition the Andrés Palomino
in the city of Cali continues to be kidnapped, imprisoned by the State since
this past April 3rd when the ESMAD isolated the university autonomy of the
Universidad of Valle.

Within this social and political habitat, the populist dictator Álvaro
Uribe, the supreme focal point of the paramilitary politics (para política),
continues to offer the country to the interests of transnational companies
and the government of the United States of North America by means of his
persistence of a un-consulted and widely rejected FTA. This facilitated by
an array of policies such as the Rural Statute, Paramos Law, Plan of Waters,
Mining Code, extensive reforestations of monocrops to be used as biofuels,
the widening of the use of genetically modified crops varieties and agro
chemicals that erode food sovereignty and the vitality of the territories
biodiversity and the implementation of megaprojects, disguised as
development, as part of the Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP) and the Iniciativa de
Integración Regional Suramericana (IIRSA).

The evident is that as the State tightens the grip of its chokehold, the
persistence of the right to freedom and self determination of the peoples
strengthens. For these reasons amongst many others, we South American bees
and other plants and animals, send this calling for that before, during and
after the 12th of October, multiple and diverse acts of direct action be
realized against the locations of the consulates and embassies of the
Colombian State outside of the national territory, in solidarity with the
continued and permanent acts of struggles and resistances of the indigenous
peoples, afro descendents, peasants, popular urban sectors and students of
the country that today encompasses us. We call the Colombian State be has
strongly challenged internationally as the peoples from our regions are
doing so within the national territory. That the wide, deep and strong
unconformity of our peoples be felt in all spaces in which State is
present.