<strong>Venezuela – Land Reform, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology</strong>
By Alan Broughton
Participants' reports: May Day 2010 brigade to Venezuela
The AVSN’s 10th Australian solidarity brigade to Venezuela took place from 23rd April until 2nd May, 2010. The itinerary was designed to give participants an understanding of the exiting process of change that is occurring in Venezuela and to show that “another world is possible”.
The May Day 2010 brigade was led by Coral Wynter, John Cleary and Tamara Pearson, an Australian solidarity activist living in Venezuela.
BACKGROUND
By John Cleary (Brigade co-organiser)
Colombia & United States: Stop the lies and aggression against Venezuela!
July 24, 2010
On July 22, Venezuela broke off all diplomatic relations with Colombia and placed its national borders on high alert.
This follows accusations made by the Colombian government that Venezuela is harbouring “terrorists” from the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), and hosting several “terrorist training camps” near the border region that divides the two countries.
Join the National Elections Brigade to Venezuela!
Brigade dates: September 17th to 28th (inclusive), 2010
PLACES STILL AVAILABLE.
The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network’s brigades to Venezuela are a once-in-a-lifetime experience - the opportunity to see first-hand an unfolding revolution that is not only radically transforming the lives of Venezuelans, but challenging the greed, exploitation and destructiveness of global capitalism by showing that a better world is possible.
“Power politics”: A reply to SBS TV’s propaganda about Venezuela
The Dateline program “Power politics”, aired on SBS TV on May 23, 2010 (and on SBS2 on May 24) was one of the most blatantly biased reports on Venezuelan politics yet to be aired on Australian TV. The anti-Bolivarian line unashamedly pushed by reporter David O'Shea mirrors (in fact was shaped by) the most right-wing of Venezuela’s opposition parties.
James Dryburgh reports from the May Day 2010 solidarity brigade
Travels without a donkey: Venezuela (Part 1)
James Dryburgh reports on his first impressions of Venezuela, where he joined the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network’s May Day 2010 solidarity brigade.
Join the next Australian solidarity brigade to Venezuela! - April 15 - April 25, 2009
Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution led by President Hugo Chavez is shaking up global politics and inspiring millions of ordinary people with the evidence that a better – a peaceful, democratic and socially just – world is possible.
* Whereas in Australia, health, education and public infrastructure is being privatised, in Venezuela, major industries are being nationalised and put under workers’ control, and universal access to health, education and social welfare is now guaranteed.
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Participants' reports: May Day 2010 solidarity brigade to Venezuela
The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network’s 10th Australian solidarity brigade to Venezuela took place from 23rd April until 2nd May, 2010. The itinerary was designed to give participants an understanding of the exiting process of change that is occurring in Venezuela and to show that “another world is possible”.
The May Day 2010 brigade was organized and led by Coral Wynter and John Cleary, and Tamara Pearson, an Australian solidarity activist living in Venezuela.
BACKGROUND
By John Cleary (Brigade co-organiser)
A New Kind of Society: A participant's report from the May Day 2010 brigade to Venezuela
We can't keep going the way we are going. It is tearing up too much life. We must have peace, the earth needs love. Where do we look to find another way? What would a different society look like? How can we construct a society of cooperation, purpose, wholeness, and peace?
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela condemns the State of Israeli's massacre of peace activists
Statement from Venezuela's Ministry of People's Power for Foreign Affairs
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Commander Hugo Chávez, emphatically condemns the brutal massacre perpetrated by the State of Israel against the members of the Liberty Flotilla, as a result of the war action started by the Israeli Army against defenseless civilians, who tried to carry humanitarian aid supplies to the Palestine people of the Gaza Strip, who are victim of the criminal blockage imposed by the State of Israel.
