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	<title>Fredericton Peace Coalition &#187; Colombian Blood Coal</title>
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		<title>Canada backs Colombia&#8217;s growing embrace of US military</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And Canada? Our government supported the agreement too. Canadian mining, oil and gas companies are Colombia&#8217;s third biggest source of foreign investment, operating almost exclusively in remote zones of the country where armed protection is a precondition to profit. The question is, protection from whom? Both Plan Colombia and the new Defense Cooperation Agreement identify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: The Curse of Coal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power plants in Canada &#8211; including NB Power&#8217;s Belledune plant &#8211; and elsewhere get the coal for their power plants from one Colombian mine, the Cerrejón mine. This video report shows how coal consumption is contributing to negative consequences for the people living in the area.
The Danish NGO &#8211; DanWatch &#8211; has put pressure on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition to Canada-Colombia free trade continues</title>
		<link>http://frederictonpeace.org/?p=3436</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, December 4th, over 80 people rallied in front of the Wolfville, NS, office of Scott Brison, MP for Kings-Hants. Brison, the Liberal International Trade Critic, was targeted because of his support of Bill C-23 &#8211; an Act to implement the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA). The rally also came only days after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachia and Colombia: The People Behind the Coal</title>
		<link>http://frederictonpeace.org/?p=2820</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Aviva Chomsky on mountain top coal mining in Kentucky and coal mining in Colombia. 
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		<title>Colombian president clashes with NDP, Bloc MPs</title>
		<link>http://frederictonpeace.org/?p=2732</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president of Colombia clashed with NDP and Bloc Quebecois MPs, who questioned the South American country&#8217;s human-rights record.
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		<title>The human price of coal mining</title>
		<link>http://frederictonpeace.org/?p=2671</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To walk among these posts filled me with an intense feeling of sadness of lives being slowly suffocated as the mine creeps forward. To live among these posts, with the whines of mine machinery playing over the sound of the wildlife, appears to me like psychological torture for the remaining 17 families.
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		<title>ACTION ALERT: Week of Action on Colombia-Canada FTA</title>
		<link>http://frederictonpeace.org/?p=2430</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MPS must defend human rights before trade
April 24 marks the beginning of a week of action against the Canada-Colombia free trade agreement, with special focus on convincing Liberal MPs that whether or not they support free trade, this is a bad agreement that can only worsen human rights violations, increase violence against labour and civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tara&#8217;s reflection on the Mining the Connections Forum</title>
		<link>http://frederictonpeace.org/?p=2223</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflection on the Mining the Connections Forum, Tatamagouche NS, November 2008.
Excerpt: In view of this, I was absolutely shocked and appalled at how little legislation there is in Canada regarding mining, and how little protection there is for the environment and surrounding communities.  What was most distressing to me was learning about how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Bogota</title>
		<link>http://frederictonpeace.org/?p=2220</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garry Leech, independent journalist and lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Cape Breton University, has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia, uncovering the unofficial stories of people living in conflict zones. Beyond Bogotá is framed around the eleven hours that Leech was held captive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombian Coal and New Brunswick Power: A Case of Environmental Racism</title>
		<link>http://frederictonpeace.org/?p=2147</link>
		<comments>http://frederictonpeace.org/?p=2147#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A case of environmental racism in New Brunswick concerns the coal extracted from mines in Colombia that is then exported to our province for power generation. Coal from Colombia has been dubbed &#8220;Colombian blood coal&#8221; because of violent displacement of communities and assassinations of union leaders at the country&#8217;s coal mines.
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