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Stop the killing of Colombian union activists!

Miguel Fernandez is a labor activist and President of the Cauca Teachers Union in Colombia.  Miguel recently returned to Colombia after spending several months working with Eastern Massachusetts Jobs with Justice through a program that brings Colombian trade unionists who have been targeted for death by paramilitary groups to the U.S.

Miguel has received four death threats in the last ten days, one of which was aimed at his entire family.  The threats are presumably from paramilitary groups tied to the Colombian government that seeks to eradicate any kind of opposition to its power.  Union leaders are perceived as dissidents, and are murdered, detained, and tortured on a regular basis.  More labor activists have been assasinated in Colombia than all other countries combined, making it the most dangerous place to form a union in the world.  Please take a moment to send a message to the Colombian Ambassador to the U.S. and to the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia demanding an end to the threats and violence against Miguel Fernandez and other trade unionists!