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The CommonPlace Friday Night Social, 27th Jan: Venezuela talk, bar, film, food,

commonplacer | 17.01.2006 13:47 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles

The first of the CommonPlace Friday Night Socials, 27th Jan, The CommonPlace, Leeds, 6 pm 'till late. Recommeded donation, £3 incl. 2006 membership to the CommonPlace.

Featuring:

*First-hand report on indegenous resistance to coal mining in Venezuela (8 pm)
*film on venezeula (6 pm)
*food & licenced bar (from 6 pm)
*DJs into the night (from 9 pm)

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The first of the CommonPlace Friday Night Socials, 27th Jan, The CommonPlace, Leeds, 6 pm 'till late. Recommeded donation, £3 including 2006 membership to the CommonPlace.

Venezuela: Bolivarian Revolution, Coal Mining and Indigenous Resistance

6pm FILM; ‘ Bolivarian Venezuela ; people and struggle of the fourth world war’, 1h 15 mins. by Marcelo Andrade and the Calle Y Media Collective. 76 min., 2004, Spanish with English subtitles.

Documentary examining the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela as connected to the world-wide movement against capitalist globalization. www.calleymedia.org

Followed by...

8pm Report back from a recent trip to Venezuela
Short film from a new libertarian social centre in Caracas
Information on indigenous struggles in the rural North West
News paper clippings and photos

Followed by...

9 pm onwards DJ's

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From the 24th to the 29th of January 2006 the attention of the global anti-capitalist movement will be focused on Caracas, Venezuela as thousands gather at the World Social Forum, hosted by the self proclaimed socialist Hugo Chavez.

At the same time, just a bumpy bus ride from Caracas outside of the media gaze, another mobilization will be gathering momentum. People who live in the beautiful forested Sierra Perija, in the North Westerly region of Zulia have been organizing, campaigning and taking action for over two years to defend their lives and the land they live on against multinational coal mining companies.

Learn more and find out what you can do to help.

In 1999 Chavez came to power, the new Venezuelan Constitution was written and people were thirsty for change. Neo Liberal policies were rejected in favour of ‘missions’ designed to empower the poorest communities. The left across the world celebrated while the right panicked. The political landscape in Venezuela was polarised; Chavez vs the capitalist opposition; black vs white.

But six years on and there is trouble in paradise. Big business is reasserting itself in Venezuela while indigenous people continue to fight for their lives and for the environment. Shades of Grey and bursts of colourful resistance are breaking through the black and white picture.


For more on the indigenous resistance in the Sierra Perija

www.noalg8.contrapoder.org. (“other languages”section)  http://www.nodo50.org/ellibertario (“English” section)

Lusbi Portillo www.soberania.org (all in Spainish)


For more on the Common Place visit www.thecommonplace.org.uk

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