demilitarization

My colleagues have been working hard for the last few months to organize a training for activists who want to more effectively influence legislation. Here's the info:

On Sunday and Monday, Nov. 4-5, in Washington, D.C., FOR will host an advocacy skills training for people interested or engaged in grassroots civilian diplomacy. This training opportunity will feature several members of FOR's program staff as well as participants in various international peace delegations and nonviolence programs.

The flyer be downloaded as a PDF here, and you can download the registration form here.

On the front page of today's Washington Post is a major article on Colombia. The piece by Juan Forero, "Traffickers Infiltrate Military in Colombia: Officers Provided Secret Information on U.S. Navy Ships," details how drug traffickers and leftist FARC guerrillas have been able to gain key information about Colombian military operations as well as its U.S. military support.

FOR staff will participate in a number of workshops at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta this week. They include: