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Southwest Region

Witness for Peace is a national grassroots human rights organization that works in solidarity with peoples of Latin America to build a more just and humane US foreign policy towards the Americas. Witness for Peace maintains international teams and offices in Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua and Cuba. WfP was founded in 1983 in Nicaragua and currently has over 25,000 members in the U.S nationwide. There are 6 regions of Witness for Peace throughout the United States. The Southwest region covers California, Arizona and New Mexico.

What we stand for:

*End US funding of military and police violence in Latin America.

*End the failed drug wars

*End Economic Violence of free trade agreements and neo-liberal economic policies

*Stand for Sovereignty and the right of nations to chose their own destiny. No more US interventions.

How we do this:

Delegations- we take groups for short term 10 day study tours of the countries we are based so see first hand the impacts of US policies.

Speakers- we bring international speakers to tour the U.S to speak about their communities and countries,

Urgent Response Network- when human rights violations occur we mobilize our urgent response network to call and write letters to key government officials in human rights cases and emergencies.

Move Congress- we track US military funding and legislation that impacts Latin America and mobilize our members to lobby congress for better policies.

Organize and mobilize. We take actions from congressional lobbying to protests and rallies.

Please contact Tanya Cole to sign for our email list of local meetings, events and actions in your area.

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Support the Southwest Region
Click here to help support the Southwest Region's many activities and programs including our delegation scholarship fund.
Check out our TEN New Year’s resolutions and help us keep them!
Witness for Peace Southwest 2013 New Years Resolutions and Top Five Highlights of 2012.
Past Highlights and Pictures.
Check the Southwest Highlights and Accomplishments with Pictures of our past delegations, speaking tours, and actions.
Sign up for our local email list and join our group on Facebook!
Get announcements about meetings, events and actions in your area. The southwest region is on facebook! Make new friends, see old friends, get updates and videos and get informed about local events and share with us what you are doing!
Bird-Dog the New Congress! Take a look at our "How To" guide.
Bird-dogging is a tactic that many organizations, and concerned citizens, use to elected representatives to take a public stance on an issue, or to question a stance that a rep has already taken.
Cuba Webinar-"From Che to Fidel: Building Bridges with 21st Century Cuba" Oct 17, 2012
Witness for Peace Northwest and Southwest Region is thrilled to host this webinar with Daisy Rojas, a Cuban social justice activist and organizer who is a founding member of the Martin Luther King Jr Center in Havana.
Board Member Openings-Southwest Region
Become an integral part of an activist led solidarity organization dedicated to human rights.
Videos- Southwest Region Speakers
View clips of Southwest Region speakers on video.

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