The CPT delegation and Barrancabermeja team did a public action yesterday, denouncing Plan Colombia, fumigation, multinational exploitation and the free trade agreement, which are causing the poorest people to suffer more and more. We did a little street theatre, sang a song in which spectators joined, and then spectators used sidewalk chalk to cover the park's central plaza with their wishes for their future.

The Colombian people are not just wishing for a better future; they are creative and are working together in communities to find solutions in the midst of difficulties we can't really imagine. In Micoahumado, for example, they continue to claim the basic human right to live without violence or the threat of violence, whether in the form of military presence or guerrilla presence. This right is repeatedly and continuously violated by both sides, and the presence of CPT reinforces the community's rights and wishes because of the international attention it brings to these violations.

I will write more about those days soon, but today we're in transit, returning to Bogotá to visit the Canadian and US embassies. On Tuesday I'll be flying back to Canada, but not to Toronto. I'll be going back to Abbotsford to help Mom move. She's going to try out an assisted living apartment, and since I have the time, I'd like to spend it with her.