VENEZUELA
REPORT-BACK
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Saturday
18 September 3-6 pm
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While
British MPs resort to medieval legislation to try to impeach the prime
minister for misleading the country into war, the people of Venezuela
have an updated tool: their 1999 constitution uniquely gives the
electorate the power to recall any elected official halfway through
their term. Venezuelans
used it on 15 August to reaffirm Hugo Chavez as president by 59% to 41%.
Selma
James and Nina Lَopez
were among over 100 international observers who visited polling stations
and confirmed the election result.
They will report on this unique event: the 10 million voters who
queued peacefully for up to 14 hours despite fears of violence; the
system that was adopted to prevent fraud; the extraordinary grassroots
movement that ensured Chavez’s landslide result, and his extraordinary
leadership now intent on “deepening the revolution”,
strengthening our movement wherever we are.
The
Bolivarian Revolution ENTER THE OIL WORKERS!
Venezuela is the fifth largest oil exporter, yet 80% of its population (mainly people of African and Indigenous descent) live in poverty. Since Hugo Chavez was elected to use the oil revenue to eliminate poverty, there have been many attempts by the white elite and their Washington friends to overthrow his government.
In these unique interviews, oil workers – women and men – tell how and why they saved their industry from a CIA-backed coup, how they see their struggle in relation to other working class people in the world, and how they are organising with the community and the military to “put the oil industry at the service of humanity”.
Available
for sale at £5 each: The Bolivarian Revolution: Enter the Oil
Workers! (34 mins) and Venezuela: A 21st
Century Revolution
(57 mins) by the Global Women’s Strike Bolivarian Circle.
Contact:
Global Women’s Strike Bolivarian Circle 020-7482 2496
womenstrike8m@server101.com
www.globalwomenstrike.net
Crossroads Women’s Centre, 230A Kentish Town Rd, London NW5 2AB