Who we are

Mission:DJPC is a volunteer organization dedicated to promoting human rights, economic justice and lasting peace in Latin America through education, solidarity projects and nonviolent activism.

Goals: DJPC’s current goals include putting a human face on poverty, human rights abuses and conflict in Latin America; increasing awareness of the ever-widening social and economic injustices in both the South and the North; promoting sustainable communities and nonviolence; and encouraging people to become proponents of social change.

History: 30 YEARS OF SOLIDARITY, 1979 – 2009!
DJPC was founded in late 1976 in response to the National Catholic Bishops’

Photo from Nestle protest

Call to Action. DJPC expanded and incorporated in 1979, as an interfaith
membership-based organization addressing global injustice in developing
countries. One of its first projects was participating in the international
boycott of the Nestle Corporation for its unethical marketing of infant
formula in the Third World (see photo).

In 1984, DJPC supported a campaign against Western Airlines for its
cooperation in the deportation of Salvadorans. Soon after that DJPC promoted
a campaign to declare the City of Denver a sanctuary for Central American
refugees. Through the rest of the decade and into the present, DJPC has
continued to work in solidarity with the people of Latin America by
sponsoring educational programs, lobbying elected officials, and promoting
action campaigns.