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.
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.
May Day brigade inspires participants
By Coral Wynter
May 9, 2010
We have just finished a very successful May Day brigade to Venezuela, organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN). The majority of the 14 participants were from Australia, with two Canadians and one activist from the United States also taking part.
May Day was, of course, a highlight of the 10-day tour: tens of thousands of marchers, all in red T-shirts. The brigade were greeted with cheers of welcome — we were easily identified by our Australian solidarity T-shirts and banner.
US out of Latin America: end the attacks on Venezuela!
The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network calls on US President Barrack Obama to acknowledge and act on the desire of all peoples concerned with peace and social justice for an end to the United States’ military and political interference in Latin America.
`An experience none of us will forget’: The December 2009 solidarity brigade to Venezuela
Report by Federico Fuentes, Caracas
Speaking to activists in the “Rebirth of the South” Commune in Valencia, solidarity brigade participant Arul from the Socialist Party of Malaysia commented that, since arriving in Venezuela, many of his friends had been asking if he had met President Hugo Chavez already. He had told them, “while I have not met Hugo Chavez, what I have discovered is that all the people I have met in Venezuela carry a Chavez within, because it is the people, together with Chavez, who are driving this revolution forward”.
Hugo Chavez speaks to Australian GreenLeft Weekly journalists
Hugo Chavez speaks to GLW bureau: 'Socialism will save world'
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/795/40920
Jim McIlroy, Barinas
16 May 2009
“Socialism will save Venezuela; socialism will save the world”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on May 10 during his weekly TV program Alo Presidente.
Chavez was answering a question put to him live on air by Coral Wynter, a member of the Australian Socialist Alliance and the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN).
