Georgetown is lending itself to the legitimization of Uribe, whose murderous policies led to untold numbers of deaths and displacements, and which have accelerated the U.S. State Department-led re-militarization of Latin America. Unfortunately, it is all too common for universities to provide cover and legitimacy to murderers and their apologists. My university, for example, has hired Paul Bremer to teach this semester, and gave golpista former Honduran ambassador Roberto Flores Bermúdez the position of "ambassador in residence" while he illegally worked as an unregistered foreign agent, lobbying for Micheletti's de facto military regime while receiving a full salary from the military coup-installed government (carried out by officers trained at the same School of the Americas where Uribe sent so much of his military to learn how to become domestic terrorists).

So DCians: come out in solidarity with the people of Colombia and all of Latin America to say Adios Uribe, tomorrow September 8th at 11:30am at Red Square in Georgetown's main campus. (You can get to Red Square if you enter the campus at 37th and O St, NW, and head right from Healy Lawn). Red Square is (get ready for this) the principle "free speech zone" at Georgetown.

To find out more, check out http://uribe-georgetown.org