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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ChicagoALBA Solidarity Committee [mailto:chicagoalbasolidarity@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> Stansfield Smith<br><b>Subject:</b> forms to Send a Letter to Senator Durbin and your Representatives to condemn the US coup in Venezuela. Webinar today from on the ground in Venezuela with Charlie Hardy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:36.0pt'>Take Action!</span></strong><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt'> </span></b></span><strong><span style='font-size:36.0pt'>Tell Sen. Durbin that the US doesn’t choose who is president of Venezuela!</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><a href="https://afgj.salsalabs.org/tellsenatordurbin-venezuela/index.html" target="_blank"><span style='font-weight:normal'>https://afgj.salsalabs.org/tellsenatordurbin-venezuela/index.html</span></a></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p></div><p style='box-sizing:border-box'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, has endorsed President Trump’s decision to foster a coup in Venezuela by issuing a statement recognizing Juan Guaido, self-proclaimed “president” as the leader of Venezuela. The </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444'><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/ap-exclusive-anti-maduro-coalition-grew-from-secret-talks/2019/01/25/7c0d7ce8-211e-11e9-a759-2b8541bbbe20_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4202c415beea" target="_blank"><span style='color:#980000'>Washington Post</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> has reported on the US government and the Venezuelan opposition secret talks that led to the coup attempt. The </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444'><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/americas/donald-trump-venezuela-military-coup.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:#980000'>New York Times</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> previously reported that Trump met with disloyal Venezuelan military officers. Sen. Durbin himself went to Venezuela last year and met with opposition leaders. Fill out the form here to send a message to Sen. Durbin that you oppose a US-orchestrated coup in Venezuela.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#990000'>Click on the link above to send a letter.</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;box-sizing:border-box'><span class=gmaildefault>Send letters to all your Representatives: </span>Oppose US & Canada Regime Change Efforts in Venezuela<o:p></o:p></h1><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><a href="https://afgj.org/take-action-now-oppose-us-regime-change-efforts-in-venezuela" target="_blank">https://afgj.org/take-action-now-oppose-us-regime-change-efforts-in-venezuela</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p style='box-sizing:border-box'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Today US President Donald Trump took the extraordinary and illegal action to recognize the president of Venezuela’s legislature as the “interim president” of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing:border-box'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444'><a href="https://afgj.salsalabs.org/opposeusregimechangeeffortsinvenezuela" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0089C4'>Sign the petition HERE</span></a> to tell your elected officials NO US/CANADA-ENGINEERED COUP In Venezuela! It is clear that the US government and corporate media believe they have entered the final offensive to replace the elected Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro with one that will be subservient to the interests of the US and its allies. Tell your elected officials (US and Canadian) that you oppose foreign intervention in Venezuela’s internal affairs. This action is counter to both the United Nations and Organization of American States Charters and thus illegal under international law.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing:border-box'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing:border-box'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;color:#990000'>Webinar today 7 pm Central Time with a report from Venezuela by Charlie Hardy</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing:border-box'><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#990000'>You can register today and listen tomorrow or later if need be.</span></b></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing:border-box'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555;letter-spacing:.15pt'><a href="https://afgj.org/register-for-januarys-venezuela-webinar" target="_blank">https://afgj.org/register-for-januarys-venezuela-webinar</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing:border-box'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#232333'>Now is the time for action to condemn the overt and illegal U.S. intervention in Venezuela. Part of that action needs to be sharing narratives that are completely absent in corporate mainstream news. </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#232333'><br>To that end we are excited to have Charlie Hardy join us for January's Venezuela Webinar for a presentation and Q&A.. He regularly visits Venezuela, and has been there since the beginning of January, throughout this latest U.S. coup attempt<br><br>Charlie Hardy is the author of Cowboy in Caracas, A North American’s Memoir of Venezuela’s Democratic Revolution. He arrived in Venezuela in 1985 as an associate priest of the Catholic Maryknoll Missionaries. For eight years he lived in a pressed-cardboard-and-tin shack in a Caracas barrio. He married in 1994 and continued to live in Venezuela until 2011 when he returned to the U.S. and became involved in national politics. He was the 2014 candidate of the Democratic Party in Wyoming for the U.S. Senate.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>