Nidia Castellanos is a single mother of three children who is risking her life to defend human rights in Colombia. She is the secretary general of the Arauca Peasant Association which is enduring severe repression by the government. The U.S. government is giving Colombia more than $1 million a day in military aid – some of which is used to protect Occidental Petroleum’s operations in Nidia’s state of Arauca.

Nidia will speak in Bozeman April 9 at 7pm, sponsored by the Montana State University Women’s Center, Montana Human Rights Network and Community Action for Justice in the Americas.

Location: MSU Strand Union Bldg Rm 235
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-04-09