News Flash and Request for Endorsement! 
Meeting on Venezuela with 
Key Advisor to President Chavez

Sharmini Peries, advisor to the President of Venezuela on International Relations, will be in Los Angeles June 6th and will share with us the latest news on the revolutionary process underway in Venezuela at a public meeting! See flyer.

“The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela: Advances and Obstacles”
Welcome Sharmini Peries, International Relations Advisor to President Hugo Chavez

Monday, June 6, 7pm 
Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

Time is very short but we’re sure you agree this is too good an opportunity to miss. Please help with getting the word out and with the expenses of the event by signing on to endorse!

What are the forces against President Chavez? How is he dealing with corruption? What are the missions and how have women been crucial to them? What changes have been made in the oil/energy sector? What is the latest on foreign policy? What are the challenges for the revolutionary process?

Also see the video Birth of a Network and hear Paul Jay, Chairman of Independent World Television, on this worldwide tv network being launched. Clips from the video Talking of Power, a brand new film on the revolutionary process in Venezuela by the Bolivarian Circle of the Global Women’s Strike, will also be shown, including President Chavez speaking about women in ‘el proceso’, footage of Afro and Indigenous villages, union organizers and more. The public meeting is coordinated by the Global Women’s Strike/LA and co-sponsored by several organizations.

Below is a list of what we are requesting of endorsers; please check off what you are able to do and thank you for your support!

§ contribute $25, $50 or more (toward cost of the meeting venue and other event costs). Please make checks payable to LA Wages for Housework Committee (the fiscal sponsor for this event)*, mail to: PO Box 86681, Los Angeles, CA 90086

§ make an in-kind contribution (e.g., copying, childcare, Spanish translation, equipment, security)

§ assist with publicity – send emails to your list at least two times before the event, distribute flyers

§ commit in other ways to help with turnout (sending people to/ participating in the event)

To endorse or for further information: Call/fax: 323-292-7405,
email:la@crossroadswomen.net     www.globalwomenstrike.net 

___Yes, we will endorse “The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela: Advances and Obstacles” on Monday, June 6th.

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*For your donation to support the educational work of GWS, you may make a tax-deductible donation payable to “Women in Dialogue.”

The Global Women’s Strike/LA is part of a multiracial network of women taking actions since 2000 in over 60 countries on and around March 8 (International Women’s Day) and throughout the year to demand that governments Invest in Caring Not Killing. The Strike has been working in support of grassroots women in Haiti and Venezuela.

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