Working together with other groups such as School of the Americas Watch, Pastors for Peace, Global Exchange, Let Haiti Live, and the Latin America Solidarity Coalition, we increase our outreach and our impact. Our volunteers seek to educate and inform the community through monthly public events and forums. Topics have ranged from structural adjustment and fair trade in the Americas to closing the
SOA to ending the embargo against Cuba. Past speakers include noted linguist Noam Chomsky, Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala activist Jennifer Harbury, Pastors for Peace founder Rev. Lucius Walker, School of the Americas Watch activist Fr. Rou Bourgeois, and Dr. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health (Haiti). Task Force on the Americas has hosted West Coast premieres of important documentary films such as The School of Assassins, The Victims of the War in Chiapas, and Haiti: Harvest of Hope. Our members have organized and participated in fact finding tours and election-monitoring delegations to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Early projects included providing continuous accompaniment to the Nongovernmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (1986-1991) and publication of a report detailing torture in El Salvador. Our recent projects include: support for an accompaniment program for witnesses of genocide in Guatemala; financial aid to schools in Chiapas, El Salvador, and Haiti; and support for a hospital in rural Haiti, a women's clinic in Nicaragua, and women's cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico. Most recently, Task Force on the Americas delegations delivered medical aid in Cuba and supplies to Cuban doctors working in Venezuela. TFA provided funds to cocoa farmers devastated by floods in the Dominican Republic, supported grassroots groups in Honduras, participated in the Haiti Accompaniment Project, and fiscally sponsored three others: SOPUDEP School, Haiti Information, and Haiti Victims assistance projects.
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