From: witness@igc.org (Witness For Peace)
Date: 28 Oct 91 07:14 PST
Subject: Witness for Peace 500 Years Campai
Message-ID: <1563600067@igc.org>

  1492-1992 Expose the Myths: Calling for a Just World Order

     Witness for Peace (WFP) is a grassroots, faith-based,
nonviolent organization working in Central America and locally
throughout the U.S. for social justice and peace.

     Witness for Peace has produced a special Quincentenary
Packet designed for local organizing and education called 1492-
1992 Expose the Myths: Calling for a Just World Order.

     Just as the mythology of the "New World" guided
colonization, so the myths of the "new world order" drive U.S.
policy in Central America today.  The Expose the Myths campaign
seeks to expose the parallels between colonization and present
U.S. policy in Central America, and to call for a just world
order through creative, alternative policies.


     The Expose the Myths Packet includes:

* "Myths of the Month"--a series of educational and action
capsules designed to expose the myths of Columbus and the impact
of U.S. policy in Central America.

* Information and analysis of U.S. AID, economic development,
structural adjustment and free trade in Central America.

* Background information on U.S. policy in the Central American
region.

* Legislative suggestions.

* Action suggestions.

* Background information on indigenous populations.

* Bibliography of resources.


     The 1492-1992 Expose the Myths: Calling for a Just World
Order packets can be ordered from Witness for Peace for $10 each;
Witness for Peace, 2201 P Street NW, Room 109, Washington, DC
20037; 202/797-1160.