Dear GVCP Member:

NEXT GVCP MEETING: SATURDAY, JUNE 14TH, 2:00 PM, 71 CENTER STREET, GENESEO.

Peace Actions: Silent vigils in Honeoye, Richmond Memorial Park, Route 20A,
Saturday mornings from 10:30 - 11:30 AM. Concerned Citizens for Peace.
Contact person: Judi Salsburg (585) 229-4963 <jsalsburg@monroecc.edu>.

Peace Vigils in the chapel at St. Michael¹s church, 23 Main Street, Geneseo,
will continue. These are held on Wednesdays, from 12:15 PM to 7:00 PM. All
welcome!

Anti-War Protests at the Liberty Pole in Rochester every Friday at 4:00 PM.
Directions: Take 390 north to 590 north. Take 590 north to 490 west. Take
the Clinton Ave exit. Turn right toward the Strong Museum. The road stops
after 1 block. Turn left. You will cross East Ave, then Main St. Park
anywhere. The Liberty Pole is to the left on either East Ave or Main St.

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Learn more about "The Call to Bring the
Settlers Home to Israel" found at http://bringthemhome.btvshalom.org/. The
Call is the creation of Brit Tzedek v’ Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for
Justice and Peace, a national group of Jewish-Americans committed to ending
the violence between Israelis and Palestinians. It is the centerpiece of a
campaign to tackle one of the toughest obstacles to Middle East peace‹the
presence of over 200,000 Israeli settlers living throughout the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip.

U.S. companies supporting paramilitary terrorist groups in Colombia: U.S
companies operating in Colombia are currently providing material aid to a
designated foreign terrorist organization‹the United Self-Defense Forces of
Colombia (AUC). For example, two Florida-based Coca-Cola bottlers, Richard
Kirby and Panamerican Beverages Company, LLC, as well as Drummond Company,
Inc., an Alabama coal company, provide the AUC with money, food, fuel,
equipment, as well as use of land for bases. In exchange, the AUC murders,
tortures, and intimidates trade union leaders to stop unions from operating
at these companies.

The Colombian government is in a close relationship with the AUC, and has
done little or nothing to bring these paramilitaries to justice. AUC, a
designated terrorist group, is openly operating in Colombia, and also has
open business relationships with U.S. companies.

Any company providing material assistance to the AUC is in violation of U.S.
law 18 U.S.C. § 2339B. Immediate enforcement action against these companies
would send a strong message that any person or company that assists any
terrorist group will be prosecuted.

Write to Attorney General John Ashcroft, US Department of Justice, 950
Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20530 Fax (202) 514-4507, e-mail:
<AskDOJ@usdoj.gov>. Ask Mr. Ashcroft to vigorously prosecute US companies
that break the law by supporting the AUC.

Send a copy of your letter to Senator Patrick Leahy, Senate Judiciary
Committee, Washington D.C. 20510. Fax (202) 224-3479, e-mail:
<senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov>.

Peace,

Arnie Matlin for GVCP