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Hands Off Venezuela Western Canada Conference |
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By HOV Canada
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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May 9-10, 2008
SFU @ harbour center
Labatt Room
Vancouver
Join Hands Off Venezuela activists
from across the country in this two-day conference about the Venezuelan
revolution and the solidarity movement.
Agenda
Friday, May 9th
7:00 pm Guest Speaker
Jorge Martin, International Secretary of
the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign.
Jorge has been
actively involved in the revolutionary movement in Venezuela. He has also played a leading role in the solidarity
movement around the world. Jorge is well known
both inside Venezuela and internationally for his analysis of the
Bolivarian movement and its path towards socialism.
Saturday, May 10th
10:00 am Film Screening
No Volveran – The Venezuelan Revolution Now!
In this in-depth
investigation the film makers take us on a journey through the fervor
of the Presidential Elections in December 2006, traveling deep into the
shanty towns (barrios), and to several factories under workers'
control, to find out why there is a movement to over-through
Capitalism, what Socialism of the 21st Century is, and how it is
changing people's lives.
1:00 pm Panel
Discussion
Labour and the
Solidarity Movement
A panel of speakers
from the labour movement will discuss the importance of organized
labour to the solidarity movement and to the Venezuelan revolution
itself. Including Jim Sinclair - President of
the BC Federation of Labour and others.
3:00 pm Panel
Discussion
Socialism of the
Twenty-first Century
What is Chavez'’s
“Socialism of the twenty-first century” and what direction is Venezuela
heading? Speakers include HOV activist Alex
Grant, editor of Fightback Magazine, and Ian Beeching from the
Vancouver Socialist Forum.
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