[Peace] [Peace-discuss] Flyer for Saturday's AWARE demo

Fri Feb 1 02:41:41 UTC 2019

I'll  put it together and bring some copies on Saturday.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 6:57 PM C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
wrote:

> David, can you put this together & make copies? I’m afraid I can’t. —CGE
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> > On Jan 31, 2019, at 6:15 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> > If you're going to leaflet on Venezuela in Champaign, it might be good
> to include something about Durbin, because he's been particularly bad.
> >
> > [...]
> > Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) seemed to speak for the
> bipartisan foreign policy establishment when he welcomed Trump’s decision
> to recognize the newcomer, declaring on the Senate floor his support for
> Guaidó, who was relatively unknown in Venezuela until about a month ago.
> The comments reflect the degree to which the Democratic Party remains less
> willing to question its long-standing support for U.S. intervention in the
> affairs of foreign governments.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > - POLITICS 01/30/2019 06:34 pm ET Updated 4 hours ago
> > Where Democratic Presidential Contenders Stand On The Venezuelan Crisis
> > Some of them agree with President Trump’s decision to recognize the
> country’s opposition leader as the legitimate president.
> > By Daniel Marans, Nick Robins-Early, and Travis Waldron
> >
> https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/venezuela-juan-guaido-donald-trump-2020-democrats_us_5c520bd0e4b04f8645c745f4
> >
> > ===
> >
> > Robert Reuel Naiman
> > Policy Director
> > Just Foreign Policy
> > www.justforeignpolicy.org
> > naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> > (202) 448-2898 x1
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 5:27 PM Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> > Here is one on offer from Adrian of the Green Party, posted on FB:
> >
> >
> > Adrian Boutureira Sansberro <
> https://www.facebook.com/adrianboutureira?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARDmKc6qg1fmuUBfhfK-tU1OOWxB1leV4a0lkH0cIhCIqQFTkwKNSZn6RBDFgF-eqIw-gWsYQ8LljtZF&hc_ref=ARTp2wlGTmjUD0umtBX7TZHwFDCUH66VMWXsUKWpfUWkxCwdFuD3kJGk8V8mRNPQVy0&fref=nf>
> <
> https://www.facebook.com/adrianboutureira?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARDmKc6qg1fmuUBfhfK-tU1OOWxB1leV4a0lkH0cIhCIqQFTkwKNSZn6RBDFgF-eqIw-gWsYQ8LljtZF&hc_ref=ARTp2wlGTmjUD0umtBX7TZHwFDCUH66VMWXsUKWpfUWkxCwdFuD3kJGk8V8mRNPQVy0&fref=nf
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> > 23 hrs <https://www.facebook.com/adrianboutureira/posts/2574500109232019>
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> > Hello all,
> > Planning a rally in your hometown? Please use this release freely:
> > For immediate release, January 30, 2019
> > What:
> > XXXXXXXX plans to mobilize its membership to express our strong
> opposition to any form of US intervention into the internal affairs of the
> sovereign nation of Venezuela.
> > When:
> > XXXXXXXX.
> > Where:
> > XXXXXXXXXXX
> > Contacts:
> > XXXXXXXXX
> > Background
> > In mid-December, Juan Guaidó, the leader of Venezuela’s right-wing
> opposition-controlled National Assembly, traveled to Washington, Colombia,
> and Brazil. The exact nature of Guaidó's discussions with the right-wing
> government officials of these nations is unknown, but on Jan. 15, Vice
> President Pence made a telephone call to Guaidó.
> > On Jan. 21, encouraged by the right-wing governments of Colombia,
> Brazil, and the U.S., a small group of Venezuelan National Guard soldiers
> attempted and failed to execute a military coup. Vice President Pence
> called Guaidó again the next day, and the day after that, Jan. 23, Guaidó
> declared himself the interim president of Venezuela.
> > 17 years prior, the Bush Administration openly backed a violent and
> deadly coup that temporarily deposed then-president Hugo Chavez. In the
> years since, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have also supported
> the right-wing opposition and its neoliberal plans for a Venezuelan economy
> subservient to U.S. interests. While Trump allies with fascists like
> Bolsonaro in Brazil and murderous monarchs like Mohammed Bin Salman in
> Saudi Arabia, his administration continues to serve U.S. imperial policies
> by attempting to overthrow a democratically elected left-wing government in
> Venezuela and institute neoliberal policies that would plunder the
> Venezuelan economy at the service of the oligarchs and wealthy that lead
> the Venezuelan opposition.
> > U.S. President Donald Trump's appointments of John Bolton as National
> Security Advisor and Elliot Abrams as "Special Envoy to Venezuela" bode
> particularly ill for Venezuela's future. Abrams was convicted during the
> Iran Contra investigation of withholding information from Congress to help
> cover up atrocities committed by the Reagan Administration-backed
> right-wing governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and by the
> Contras against Nicaragua, and mischaracterized the U.S.’s brutal and often
> criminal policy towards El Salvador as a "fabulous achievement."
> > Under the Bolivarian Revolution, the Venezuelan government set up
> large-scale social programs to combat poverty. Workers and indigenous
> peoples have been empowered. The state has taken control of resources that
> were formerly in the hands of foreign multinationals. But the United States
> and its allies refuse to tolerate any attempt by a poor country to buck the
> neoliberal order and institute any kind of socialist reforms, so they keep
> attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government.
> > The opposition is run by wealthy Venezuelans who are of European descent
> and have often targeted Chavistas who are poor and often of African and
> indigenous heritage. Many of the leaders of the opposition are the same
> leaders who led and supported the attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in
> 2002. This opposition has openly incited violence and murdered people
> because they were pro-government. They have harassed and shot journalists
> and plotted to blow up pro-government news stations. This is fascism.
> > Demand
> > We oppose this latest coup attempt and the direct and illegal U.S. role
> in it, and demand that our elected officials stand up and speak out against
> it now. To do anything less is to aid and abet another U.S.-engineered
> imperialist crime in this hemisphere. There have been too many already.
> This sharp escalation of attacks on Venezuela comes after long U.S.
> campaign of destabilizing the Venezuelan economy and society. Destabilizing
> Venezuela to achieve “regime change” and the imposition of yet another
> anti-working class, anti-indigenous, anti-environmentalist, right-wing
> government subservient to global capitalism, like those of Jair Bolsonaro
> in Brazil and Ivan Duque in Colombia, is not in the interests of the
> Venezuelan working people, or of workers in the United States.
> > Under both President Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela
> has repeatedly shown its willingness to maintain friendly relations with
> the United States and its people, even going so far as to help poor
> communities in the United States by providing them with discounted heating
> oil. The people of the United States need to speak out forcefully and
> immediately to put a stop to the Trump administration’s reckless actions
> against Venezuela, which could easily lead to a civil war with regional and
> U.S. participation. We urge everyone to immediately contact their senators
> and representatives to demand an end to this illegal and dangerous
> intervention in the affairs of a sovereign nation which has done nothing to
> harm our country or its people.
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> >> On Jan 31, 2019, at 13:00, C G Estabrook via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> >> https://blackagendareport.com/racist-imperialist-war-venezuela
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> >> A better flyer for Saturday's AWARE demo. --CGE (there in spirit)
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