National Venezuela Solidarity Conference
Agenda

Friday, March 3, 2006

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Poetry and Music With Roberto Vargas and Friends

Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW (Pre-registered conference delegates can pick up credentials and materials here and avoid the lines on Sat. morning.)

Saturday, March 4, 2006

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration
Lobby, GWU Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E Street NW

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Welcome to the conference (Chuck Kaufman). Brief remarks by Venezuelan Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez Herrera

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM Introduction of keynote speaker (Xiomara García Gundersen)

Keynote speaker: Andrés Izarra, President of TeleSur

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Break

10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Panel (Dan Hellinger) "The U.S. Agenda for Latin America vs. the Venezuelan Vision for Latin America"
Sr. Lourdes Alcalá - Sacred Heart; Bill Fletcher, President, TransAfrica Forum; Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic Policy Research

12:30 PM Press Briefing with Panelists and others

12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:45 PM First Workshop Session

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Break

3:00 PM - 4:45 PM Second Workshop Session

4:45 - 7:00 Open time

7:00 - 10:00 Public Political/Cultural Event at All Souls Church (Teresa Gutierrez & Jorge Marin)

1500 Harvard St. NW

Venezuelan Ambassador Alvarez; Cuban Ambassador Dagoberto Rodriguez; Eva Golinger, author; Noeli Pocaterra, Venezuelan indigenous Congresswoman; Jorge Veloz, Afro-Venezuelan Network; Jose Pertierra, Venezuela's lawyer in the Posada extradition case.

Sunday, March 5, 2006

9:00 - 9:15 AM Brief Gathering

9:15 - 10:45 AM Third Workshop Session

10:45 - 11:00 AM Break

11:00 - 12:30 PM Plenary (Stephanie Weiner) "Solidarity with the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution"

Panelists: Fr. Roy Bourgeois, SOA Watch; Phoebe Jones, Global Women's Strike; Deborah James, Global Exchange; José Garcia, Bolivarian Circle, Oregon

12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 Plenary (Chuck Kaufman) "Conference Resolutions"

3:00 - 3:30 Cultural Celebration and Send-off

Monday, March 6, 2006
Lobby Day Visits to Congressional offices

7:30am-8:45am Breakfast and Lobby Prep Session

At the Alliance for Global Justice office, located at 1247 E Street (enter on 13th Street) SE. Go to the Potomac Ave. Metro stop on the Blue/Orange Line. Walk 2 blocks to right on Pennsylvania Ave., turn right on 13th and it's the last door on the left side of the block.

9:00 - 12:00 noon   Visits to Congressional offices

12:00 noon Demonstration at National Endowment for Democracy, located at 1101 15th Street NW