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Venezueala Conference Workshops
NOON - 1 PM -- Roundtable ADELANTE! US Women Organizing in Solidarity with Venezuela! This Roundtable exchange hopes to create opportunities to build a diverse women's movement across the US in solidarity and sisterhood with Venezuela to change US policy. Representatives from women's rights, peace and justice organizations such as the US Women and Cuba Collaboration, Nicaragua Solidarity Network, National Organization for Women, LAWG, Code Pink, WILPF, Global Exchange and more will share ideas and strategies over the lunch hour! -------------- Session 1 1:00 - 2:45 pm
Alternatives in the Americas: Challenging NAFTA, CAFTA and the FTAA
Venezuela history- First to Fifth Republic. Jorge Marin, Coordinator of the Boston Bolivarian Circle -------------- Venezuela and the African Continent Bill Fletcher , Director, Trans-Africa Forum. -------------- Film Workshop: Venezuela Bolivariana: The People and Struggle of the Fourth World War -------------- Healthcare Solidarity A background as to Venezuelan health care and health status prior to 1998, will touch upon the Cuban connection, also overview of Barrio Adentro I through III, with objectives and overall purpose and rundown on Barrio Adento I thus far. Ideas as to use North Americans might make of the phenomenon, how they might contribute, and brief reflections on Venezuela as aberration within health care, neo-liberal style. Arnie Matlin received his medical degree from McGill University in 1966. Practiced pediatrics for 33 years in rural Upstate New York before he retired in 2004.member of the Executive Committee of the Nicaragua Network. In November 2004, Arnie was presented with the Order of the XXVth Anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution-- -------------- Labor- UNT update "cancelled because denied visa". -------------- Confronting Militarization in Latin America Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC) NED/USAID - As distabilizing organizations in Venezuela . Eva Golinger, Venezuelan-American Lawyer specializing in Int'l. law, and author of The Chavez Code. http://www.venezuelafoia.info/english.html -------------- Campus Organizers and University Resources -------------- Delegations to Venezuela Planning delegations to go to Venezuela and hosting delegations from the Venezuelan missions here in the US. Watch trailer video on 1st solidarity exchange USA - Venezuela Lara 2006,(Vzla) Government sponsored delegation. Learn details on future delegations to Venezuela during this year by different organizations. Edward Mercado , Communications Coordinator, VIO. Omar Sierra , 1st Consul of Venezuela in Chicago, IL Tahis Soto , Policy analyst Velasquez Institute Deborah James , Former Global Exchange director -------------- Citgo- buycott CITGO Petroleum Corp is a wholly owned subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) the state oil company of Venezuela. In 2005, CITGO returned to PDVSA $697 million dollars in dividends. With 14,000 CITGO gas stations in the U.S., solidarity activists have a unique opportunity to contribute to the social development funds of Venezuela through the promotion of CITGO gas. This workshop will explore ways to promote a "Buy CITGO--Fuel Democracy" campaign. Walter Tillow , Louisville Free The Five & US Peace Council -------------- Venezuela and the U.S. Press-Strategies for Changing the Stories We Read Venezuela is a country of hope and deep democratic values, but you'd hardly know it by reading the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times. Some activists write off the mainstream press in their work, but like it or not, it's the mainstream media that will shape public perception, and ultimately U.S. foreign policy on Venezuela. Learn battle-tested strategies for changing the storylines that you read in your daily paper. Eric Wingerter , Public Education Director, Venezuela Information Office. Timi Gerson , Senior Account Executive with Fenton Communications -------------- Uniting the Poor of the US with the Poor of the World . Discussion of experiences and efforts of the POOR PEOPLE'S ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN in uniting the poor of the US struggling for basic human rights with poor people around the world, including the recent visit to the WSF in Venezuela by a delegation of more than 100 poor leaders from the PPEHRC across the US. Jennifer Cox and other members of PPEHRC -------------- The US war on Cuba, its relevance to Venezuela and regional developments
3:00 - 4:45 pm Saturday March 4
Women: Creating a Caring Economy in Venezuela. Phoebe Jones , Global Women Strike and Bolivarian Circle of Philadelphia Terrorist in the US- The Luis Posada Carriles case Luis Posada Carriles is the Osama Bin Laden of Latin America. His is a bloody curriculum of terror that spans four decades. In 1976, he was responsible for the murder of 73 innocent people aboard a civilian airliner. Before a Court in Venezuela could render a verdict, he escaped from captivity and fled to Central America where he became the conduit between the CIA and the Nicaraguan Contras during the scandal that became known as Iran-Contra. He is now in Texas, sheltered by the U.S. government who thus far refuses to extradite him to Venezuela. The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela regarding the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles formally asked the U.S. government for his extradition on June 15, 2005. The workshop will explore Posada?s life of terror and the present legal case against him. Jose Pertierra is an attorney in Washington, D.C. He represents the government of the -------------- Venezuela and the African Diaspora Bob Brown, Organizer, Researcher and Author, A-APRP (Guinea-Conakry) and Pan-African Roots. Dr. Alberto Jones, Author, Caribbean American Children Foundation. -------------- US and International Labor solidarity developments. This workshop will include an overview of US and International labor efforts Kim Scipes, Professor of US Labor History, member of the National Writers Guild. -------------- Faith-Based Solidarity with Venezuela How do the grassroots churches in Venezuela see and/or participate in the Process. We will discuss how U.S. church groups can participate in the larger solidarity movement. Sami Scott - Maryknoll lay missioner living in Venezuela since 1997 Sister Lourdes, Venezuelan Sacred Heart Sister and member of human rights org. FUNDALATIN. -------------- US Sponsored Coup D'etat- Haiti and Venezuela Shirley Pate , Haiti solidarity activist & Director of the Haiti-Cuba-Venezuela Project; -------------- The Aid Offered By Venezuela And Cuba To Katrina Victims Kali Akuno is the National Outreach Coordinator of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition (PHRF/OC). -------------- Film Workshop: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised -------------- Venezuela’s Challenge to US Economic Hegemony -------------- Solidarity actions in high schools and Colleges- This workshop will be an excellent chance to compare experiences of activism on our different campuses. We will also have a chance to make plans for a common speaking tour, future youth delegations or campus days of action or Venezuela related campus campaigns and targets. We can set up a communication system to exchange leaflets, videos, graphics and action plans Kati Ketz - student activist with University of North Carolina in Asheville Socialist Unity League and participant in the Lara delegation in January. University of North Carolina -Asheville Socialist Unity League Sonja Swanson -Bolivarian Youth in Miami, delegate World Youth Festival -------------- Art and culture exchange Venezuela/USA This workshop will be a forum for discussion on how art and culture can contribute to social movements, specifically focusing on the role of cultural elements in building international solidarity. This will also be a brainstorming space for potential art and cultural projects to support people's movements, both in Venezuela and in the US. Jonathan Harris lived and worked in Caracas in 2005, organizing the International Hip Hop Summit as part of the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, a gathering of 15,000 activist youth from 144 countries. He is a dj by trade, and currently works in New York as an organizer. -------------- "What being a democratic country means" and "what is development". Dozthor Zurlent, Adviser for President Chavez on International Affairs. Former volunteer in Nicaragua and member of the Nicaraguan Solidarity movement. Founder of the El Salvador Solidarity Committee in Venezuela. Former Visiting Lecturer at UIC on Latin American and Latino Studies. -------------- Venezuela and the Decline of Neoliberalism in Latin America. Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. 9:15 - 10:45 am Sunday March 5
Venezuela comes to the aid of the North American Public -------------- What are the Bolivarian Circles and how to form one in your area. Jorge Marin , Coordinator of Bolivarian Circle of Boston. -------------- Lessons from the Solidarity Model In the 1980's, solidarity movements exploded as a model for action in the US. As wars raged in Central America and the US government increased its funding to repressive governments and counter-insurgent groups like the contras in Nicaragua, organizations and networks came together to fight US intervention and support popular liberation movements in Central America. Former and current leaders from CISPES and Nicanet, talk about the lessons learned from earlier solidarity movements - many of which continue today - and how such models can be applied to combat US intervention in Venezuela and support progressive parties and social movements throughout Latin America. Chuck Kaufman from Nicaragua Network -------------- The Venezuelan Constitution: How it compares with other countries. Participatory democracy. Nat'l Lawyers Guild - Jim Fennerty , Chicago - Michael Ray, Miami -------------- Building a Grassroots Calendar of Actions/Emmergency Response Network. This is a participatory workshop aimed at questions of how to implement the calendar of actions and the Emergency Response. Network James Jordan, is a grassroots activist from Tucson, Arizona, and a member of the Latin America SolidarityCoalition. -------------- Cooperatives in Venezuela Lisa Sullivan , lay Marynoll who lives part time in Venezuela. She is also the bi-national programs director at the Venezuelan Information Office. Kellie Germond . As a sociologist and anthropologist, Germond has spent over a decade living overseas. She has written about and researched varying social issues tied to human and social development of the most vulnerable or marginalized. Her interests have included progress of women and minorities, alternative economic models, socially-beneficial high-road and sustainable development, and worker-affiliated cooperatives and other forms of local and endogenous development. Zach Mason is Involved in a project to import products from worker owned co-ops in VZ and market them in the US. The project has the purpose of materially supporting the co-ops by marketing their products, while at the same time putting forward a concrete example that workers are capable of running industries themselves, and encouraging solidarity with the Venezuelan process. He is currently in Barquisimeto in the State of Lara in VZ -------------- Plan Colombia and its effects on Venezuela and the region Plan Colombia is the US plan for war in Colombia, destabilization of Venezuela and control of the northern region of Latin America. The workshop will cover the US directed Colombian militarization on Venezuela's border, the paramilitary incursions and dirty war against the Chavez government. As the US sinks in the quagmire of Iraq and the people's movements in Latin America grow, we will make plans of action for US activists to oppose Plan Colombia. Meredith Aby - coordinator Colombia Action Network, leading member of the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, Minnesota Tom Burke - coordinator Colombia Action Network, member of the Bolivarian Circle of Cincinnati, founding member- Chicago Bolivarian Circle, Fight Back! newspaper Gerardo Cajamarca, Global Justice and Colombian Human Rights advocate, member of Sinaltrainal union, twice elected for councilman by the Popular Movement in Colombia. Berta Ceci, International Action Center -------------- The African-Venezuelan and the Bolivarian Revolution. Jorge Veloz , Afro-Venezolana Org. -------------- Venezuela and Cuba: The example of Solidarity. Ike Nahem , CSNY -------------- NED/USAID-As distabilizing organizations *repeat program* Eva Golinger, Venezuelan-American Lawyer specializing in Int'l. law, and author of The Chavez Code. http://www.venezuelafoia.info/english.html -------------- Fund raising techniques. Major donors, events, Grant Proposals. Fundraising Tricks, a Gazillion HouseParties and Media: Overcoming two most common barriers to fundraising, new internet techs for maximizing -------------- Video- Venezuela Rising -------------- Indigenous Rights in Venezuela and Native American connection. Chief Billy Tayac , Piscatawa tribe -------------- Building Latino Solidarity for the Bolivarian Revolution -------------- Media war against the Bolivarian Revolution: alternative media as a tool to counter misinformation Learn details on the media war on Venezuela since 1998, President Chavez has been attacked constantly by the International Mass Media. Where is the public perception going? What can we do? Learn how to effectively use alternative media (Radio,Web) Let's work together.! Martin Pacheco, Consul General of Venezuela in Boston, MA Edward Mercado , Communications Coordinator, Venezuela Information Office Jesus Soto , Coordinator of Miami Bolivarian Circle, Teniente Carrijal. Director of Radio Defensa Venezuela
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