REQUEST FOR ACTION
Dear Friend,
We write to you with a request for urgent action in solidarity with Ms Liliana Obando representative of the Agricultural Workers Union Federation (FENSUAGRO) who on Friday 8th August 2008 was arrested by Colombian government forces.
Register now for the next Australian solidarity brigade to Venezuela! November 20th-30th, 2008
The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network's brigades to Venezuela are a unique opportunity to see first-hand an unfolding revolution. The Venezuelan people, led by President Hugo Chavez, have taken over more workplaces, set up more cooperatives, established hundreds of free public education and health programs, organised their neighbourhoods and taken big steps towards exercising popular power in their country.
A Collaborative Exchange and Study Tour for Academics, Teachers & Students
Dates have been confirmed for January 6-14, 2009.
Dear all,
Thanks for your interest in our Academic Exchange to Venezuela, planned for January 2009. The tour is coming together as planned, and we would now like to invite you to confirm your participation by completing the attached registration form. A number of important points about registration are included in this email, but please don’t hesitate to contact Tom or Jo with any questions.
CLASS Meetings
Next Meeting Tuesday August 26, 6:30pm @ Trades Hall (CPA Office) (crn Lygon and Victoria, Carlton)
CLASS aims to build links of solidarity, culture and education between Latin America's movements of resistance and those of Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
If you would like to get involved in CLASS or perhaps you have some interesting ideas to put forward, why not come along to a meeting and be involved in the discussions surrounding our ongoing commitment to Latin America solidarity and projects.
For further information contact:
Written by Sujatha Fernandes
Tuesday, 09 October 2007
Excerpted from the new book Cuba Represent!: Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures, by Sujatha Fernandes (pp. 160 - 167)
Written by Alex van Schaick, Luis Gonzales and Teresa Carrasco
Friday, 15 August 2008
Cochabamba, Bolivia - On August 10, Bolivian President Evo Morales, of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party, won a resounding victory in Bolivia’s recall referendum. With 96.1 percent of polling tables counted, the National Electoral Court reports 67.77 percent support for Morales nation-wide.
Peace and Justice for Colombia (PJFC) is a network of people in Australia concerned at the appalling human rights situation in Colombia – particularly as it affects trade nionists,workers and rural communities. It was formed after a visit last year from Liliany Obando who moved everybody she met with her plea for assistance for the people of olombia, to help them work for an end to the state-sponsored violence directed against the ordinary men and women of her troubled country.
Richard Gott, August 11
Bolivia has voted decisively for its president's socialist programme, but a shadow of reactionary opposition in the would-be separatist eastern regions remains
The spectacular victory of Evo Morales in Sunday's re-call referendum in Bolivia suggests that the president will now move at full steam to secure his political programme, including the ratification of a new constitution and the nationalisation of key industries.
La Paz, August 10 (Notimex) – The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, today convoked the prefects to work in a united fashion and initiate a process of dialogue with the aim of opening a process of national reconciliation that puts an end to the institutional crisis.
Thanking his ratification in a speech from the balcony of the Palacio Quemado, headquarters of the executive power, Morales said that it is important to unite Bolivians and considered that the vote this Sunday is to unite the east and the west, the peoples, the rich and poor zones. From Plaza Murillo, in the centre of La Paz, he committed himself to respecting the results of the regions and asked to unite the constitution, which he is promoting, with the autonomy statutes, that the prefects of the regions of Beni, Pando, Santa Cruz and Tarija have emitted.
By Gonzalo Villanueva
Cochabamba, Bolivia.
In Bolivia, the president, Evo Morales Ayma, and the denominated `half-moon', regional opposition – Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, and Tarija – were ratified in the August 10 referendum. In Cochabamba, the mandate of the prefect (state-governor), Manfred Reyes Villa, an ally of the `half-moon' prefects, was rescinded by a popular vote of 61%. However, Manfred is resisting stepping down, questioning the legality of the law, and claiming it is unconstitutional.
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