Wednesday, September 14, 2005

return...

So im returning to Colombia. Albeit this time for just 5 weeks. I should reallly have kept this blog going over the past year in england but its been a busy one - finishing my undergraduate degree, two weeks in scotland at G8 (or around G8) and rave riots in the chek republic... but these are other stories.

This time here as part of a delegation we (Colombia Solidaity Campaign) are running made up of students, academics, and the unemployed (me) to highlight the severe human rights crisis in the public university sector and create links between between activists/groups/Unis in defense of public education. Ill try to keep updated this time but unlike my previous trip I will travelling around the country a lot more so web access may be more diffiicult. The delegation is on for ten days but be staying a little longer.


Im exited to be returning, especially to Cali, to see friends and be back a country which made a huge impression on me on my visit. This time I certainly feel better prepared, but the unkown which accompanies and enriches any trip is still present. Moreover a lot can change in a year, especially in political movements, and alliegences change, people disapear, new faces emerge and changelllenges arise.

here it goes...