We Need Your Help to
Make This A Successful Event for Real Democracy! To participate
or get more information, send an email to: jpj@lasolidarity.org
The Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC) is
calling for a National Venezuela Solidarity Day for Friday, December
2, 2005, the anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. It is time for
people in the United States to come together and demand an end to
centuries of interference in the hemisphere!
SPONSORS INCLUDE:
- ActionLA
- Alliance for Global Justice
- Bolivarian Circles-Boston
- Committee in Solidarity with the People of El
Salvador
- Ecumenical Program in Central America and the
Caribbean
- Global Exchange
- Hands Off Venezuela Campaign
- Interconnect
- Marin Interfaith Task Force
- Mexico Solidarity Network
- Nicaragua Network
- Office of the Americas
- Pan African Roots
- Puerto Rican Nationalist
Youth, Quixote Center
- School of the Americas Watch
- Turnwind
- US Peace Council
SPONSORS STILL BEING SOLICITED!
We are asking communities and individuals to participate in a call-in/email
campaign to Congress, and to organize local events in solidarity
with the Venezuelan people and against US interference there, throughout
Latin America, and around the world. Our message to Congress is:
- Stop interfering in Venezuela's elections and
sovereign affairs!
- Stop NED/USAID funding of the undemocratic opposition!
- No more US sponsored coup attempts against elected
governments in Venezuela and Latin America!
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A LITTLE BACKGROUND:
The U.S. Empire is increasingly losing its grip over Latin America
as social movements throughout the
hemisphere are rejecting neo-liberal policies and U.S.
military intervention. Venezuela is on the forefront of
change as the country moves towards a participatory democracy by
redistributing power, wealth and
resources and enhancing participation of civil society
on every level.
The majority of Venezuela's voters have shown their
support for the Bolivarian movement by three times
affirming the Presidency of Hugo Chavez, electing a
Bolivarian majority in the National Assembly, and
approving a new constitution. In turn, the US/corporate power structure
and the Bush administration have supported repeated attempts to
bring down democracy in Venezuela, including a failed military coup
against Chavez led by graduates of the notorious School of the Americas
(SOA). Much of the interference in Venezuela's democratic processes
has been through the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID.
These organizations funded groups
behind both the failed coup and the illegal work stoppages and lockouts
designed to cripple the economy, and also funded the unsuccesful
effort to recall Chavez. So far the powers of shamocracy have been
unable to overcome the real democracy
and steadfastness of the Venezuelan people.
Through institutions like the SOA, the NED, and
USAID, the US is undermining democratic movements all over Latin
America and the Caribbean.. NED/USAID leaders work with anti-Cuban
terrorists, and the International Republican Institute, an NED core
group, facilitated the coup against Haiti's elected government.
The SOA has trained some of the world‚s worst human rights
abusers. In the United States, such meddling by a foreign government
would be considered an act of aggression, and US citizens accepting
such support would be arrested for treason.
The same business and political leaders who are
attacking democratic choices in Venezuela and around
the world are also attacking our rights as voters and
citizens right here in the United States. The struggle
for democracy is an international struggle.
NO MORE SHAMOCRACY! GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT
THEY WANT! |
NATIONAL
VENEZUELA SOLIDARITY DAY: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2005