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Template:TOCnestleft Marie Dennis from Washington D.C.
Sojourners
Dennis is a contributing editor at Sojourners.[1]
Letter to Presidents Clinton and Samper
In 1994 a letter was sent to US President Bill Clinton, and Colombian President Samper, apparently from the Colombian Support Network.
It called on the US to "cut off all aid to Colombia until the violence has ended", and called for the appointment of a UN Rapporteur on human rights in Colombia.
Endorsers
- Richard Phelps, Dane County executive
- Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin State Rep.
- Noam Chomsky
- Roy Bourgeois, School of the Americas Watch
- Blase Bonpane, Office of the Americas
- Larry Birns, Council on Hemispheric Affairs
- Martin Sheen
- Jean Gore, WILPF
- Marie Dennis, Maryknoll Society
- Fred Rosen, NACLA
- Mark Pocan, Dane County Supervisor
- Haskell Wexler
- David Newby, President Wisconsin AFL-CIO
- Rev. Tim Kehl, Colombia Support Network
Letelier-Moffitt selection panel
The Institute for Policy Studies' 33rd Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards, were awarded, Thursday, October 15, 2009.
Members of the selection panel were;[2]
- Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies
- Fred Azcarate, AFL-CIO
- Marie Dennis, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
- Joe Eldridge, Chaplain, American University
- Jill Gay, Activist
- Adam Isacson, Center for International Policy
- Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive
- Isabel Morel de Letelier
- E. Ethelbert Miller, Howard University
- Joy Olson, Washington Office on Latin America
- Barbara Shailor, AFL-CIO
- Joy Zarembka, Institute for Policy Studies
Witness Against Torture
Dennis was listed as affiliated with Witness Against Torture and fasting to protest torture, as of March 25, 2010.[3]