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Solidarity Activities

On April 10th 2006, four members of the Vancouver Chapter of Hands Off Venezuela attended a public forum hosted by The Concerned Citizens of South Surrey and White Rock at the Semiahmoo Public Library.

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The National Union of Students at its Easter National Conference passed a resolution supporting the Venezuelan Revolution. The motion recognised the “enormous social change has taken place in Venezuela in recent years, with the government funding wide-ranging social programmes.”

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Jorge Martin is at the forefront of the international solidarity campaign in defense of the Bolivarian Revolution. On May 10 in San Francisco, he will speak on the current situation in Venezuela combined with the advances made by the student and union movements. He has recently returned from Venezuela and this will be his only appearance on the West Coast.

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On Wednesday 6th April a delegation of Hands Off Venezuela members gave a presentation on the situation in Venezuela to the St Catherines and District Labour Council. The presentation was very well received with delegates asking many questions about Venezuela.

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The solidarity movement internationally is organising a number of activities in the week around April 13th (anniversary of the defeat of the 2002 coup against Chavez). This stretches up to April 19th which is the anniversary of the beginning of the struggle for the independence of Venezuela from Spanish Colonial rule back in 1810. We are appealing to all Hands Off Venezuela supporters to organise local activities, video screenings, social gatherings and discussions, etc.

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About thirty people met at Community Base in Brighton on Wednesday night and decided to set up a local group to campaign in defence of the revolutionary process in Venezuela.

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On Saturday, March 25, more than 90 people came to hear Luis Primo describe the revolutionary developments that have been building momentum in Venezuela.

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Before heading back to Caracas after his multi-city West coast tour, Luis Primo, member of the expanded National Coordinating Committee of the UNT, had the opportunity to preview a new art exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum (BAM). The exhibit, "Now-Time Venezuela", is the first in a six-part cycle exploring the revolutionary changes taking place in Venezuela, and the intersection between revolutionary social change and art.

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Luis Primo's only tour stop away from the West Coast was a visit to Tucson, AZ on the same day Vice President Dick Cheney was in town.  In a land where the issue of immigration from Latin America is a question of life and death (hundreds die each year attempting to cross the arid deserts of Arizona), Primo spoke to an enthusiastic crowd of trade unionists, youth, and social activists.

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On Saturday March 25, more than 60 workers and activists attended the second to last event of the Hands Off Venezuela West Coast tour. Luis Primo spoke at the SEIU Local 715 hall in San Jose, CA.

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Hands off Venezuela in Germany played a decisively role in some successful public meetings with Che Guevara's daughter, Aleida Guevara, last week. 450 workers, youth and Latin American immigrants attended the Frankfurt meeting on Saturday, 25 March, and 250 were packed into the hall in Wiesbaden two days earlier.

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Luis Primo of the Venezuelan National Union of Workers (UNT) spoke to a packed room of Berkeley students on the history of the UNT, with a focus on the process of "cogestion obrero" (workers' control / co-management).

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Luis Primo, leader of the Venezuelan National Union of Workers (UNT), continued his Hands Off Venezuela West Coast tour with a full day of events in Olympia and Seattle on Monday, March 20.

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  1. British Journalists Pledge Support for Bolivarian Revolution
  2. Jorge Martin speaking on the Venezuelan Revolution
  3. Luis Primo (Venezuelan UNT) Visits Vancouver
  4. Luis Primo (Venezuelan UNT) at Portland Anti-War Demonstration
  5. Bolivarian revolution present at the anti-war demonstration in London
  6. Emergency Response Network / April Week of Actions
  7. Report from Madison, WI HOV
  8. 500 Gather in Washington, DC to form National Venezuela Solidarity Network
  9. Hands off Venezuela launched in Brighton
  10. Video about protest against Blair's attacks on Venezuela
  11. C.C. Campbell-Rock on Venezuela Generates Enthusiasm
  12. First Venezuela Film Presentation at the Waite House in Minneapolis a Success
  13. Signatures against Blair's attacks
  14. Hands off Venezuela Sweden launched its web site www.handsoffvenezuela.se
  15. Tour Calendar for Luis Primo (UNT) West Coast Tour
  16. Minneapolis: Successful Venezuela Film Premiere
  17. HOV Launched in Texas
  18. Hands Off Venezuela and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign protest against Blair’s attacks
  19. British Parliament to discuss solidarity with Venezuela
  20. Help Bring Venezuelan Trade Union Leader Luis Primo to the West Coast
  21. Protest letter to Blair
  22. Hands Off Venezuela in Rhode Island
  23. French Communist Party hosts Hands Off Venezuela meeting in Paris
  24. Successful Showing of Venezuela Bolivariana in Minneapolis, MN
  25. Venezuela Solidarity Event in Minneapolis
  26. San Francisco: Organizing to Defend Venezuela
  27. WSF Caracas: First Meeting of Hands Off Venezuela a Resounding Success
  28. Two more letters from the World Social Forum
  29. Successful Hands Off Venezuela meeting at Berlin's Humbolt University
  30. Hands Off Venezuela meetings at the World Social Forum, Caracas
  31. Two reports from the World Social Forum in Caracas
  32. Hands Off Venezuela: Building London-Caracas Solidarity at the 2006 World Social Forum
  33. British Communication Workers Union highlights Venezuela
  34. World Social Forum in Venezuela is on Track Say Organizers
  35. 'Hands Off Venezuela!' campaign launched in Israel
  36. Statement from the Hands Off Venezuela Preparatory Committee
  37. “Venezuela Bolivariana” well received in Belfast
  38. Canada: Hands Off Venezuela endorsed by the North and South Okanagan Labour Councils
  39. Manos Fuera de Venezuela hospeda la visita de un líder de la UNT a Gran Bretaña.
  40. Hands Off Venezuela Hosts UNT leader’s visit to Britain
  41. Good turn-out at November 25 launch of the “Hands off Venezuela” campaign in Athens
  42. Hands Off Venezuela first National Conference in Britain: Huge step forward for the campaign
  43. International Venezuelan Solidarity Day: Friday, December 2, 2005
  44. Hands Off Venezuela addresses the North Wales Social Forum
  45. SPÖ Vorarlberg (Austria) supports Hands Off Venezuela
  46. Britain: RESPECT affiliates to Hands Off Venezuela campaign
  47. Hands Off Venezuela up and running in Calgary, Alberta (Canada)
  48. Hands off Venezuela in the Midlands - Leicester
  49. Ontario Federation of Labour passes resolution endorsing Hands Off Venezuela
  50. Britain: Hands of Venezuela in the Midlands
  51. Hands Off Venezuela UK Conference: International solidarity advances
  52. Successful HOV meeting in Edinburgh University
  53. New York: An Evening in Solidarity with Bolivarian Venezuela
  54. Hands off Venezuela Campaign kicks off in Fife, Scotland
  55. Hands off Venezuela at Swedish international conference
  56. The campaign captures UEA students' imagination
  57. Hands Off Venezuela gets to Leeds University
  58. October 12th: In Venezuela they call it "Day of indigenous resistance"
  59. Hands Off Venezuela committee formed in Edinburgh
  60. Hands Off Venezuela at the University of East Anglia Fresher's Fair
  61. Hands Off Venezuela at left Labour Party Conference rally
  62. Vancouver hosts two revolutionary speakers from Venezuela
  63. Hands Off Venezuela brings a message of revolution to anti-war protest
  64. "US Hands Off Venezuela" at LA march against the war
  65. Venezuela motion to British Labour Party Conference
  66. Hands Off Venezuela at the F
  67. Motion in Pakistan Parliament against threats to assassinate Chavez
  68. Venezuela: Eyewitness report from the heart of the revolution
  69. Hands Off Venezuela Freshers' Fair Appeal
  70. Impressions from the World Festival of Students and Youth
  71. Letter from Caracas: Love at first sight with the Venezuelan revolution
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  73. 16th World Festival of Students and Youth – Chavez once again calls for socialism as the only way to
  74. Over 120,000 expected to attend the XVI World Youth Festival in Caracas
  75. Hamilton Latin American Solidarity Night a Success
  76. The World Festival of Students and Youth - After August, What's Next?
  77. Early Day Motions in British Parliament on Venezuela and extradition of Posada Carriles - ask your MP to sign!
  78. UNT leader Stalin Perez Borges speaking in California
  79. Hands Off Venezuela tackling poverty at the G8 summit
  80. Enthusiasm for Venezuelan UNT at railway workers congress
  81. Cuba, Colombia and Venezuela find an echo at the UNISON conference
  82. Austria:
  83. Successful Campaign Kick-off for
  84. UNT leader speaks at outstanding Hands Off Venezuela meeting in London
  85. Bush give up the terrorists! Picket of the US embassy in London
  86. Bush: Give up the terrorists! London US embassy demo Monday June 13
  87. UNT leader Orlando Chirino speaks in London
  88. San Francisco Bay Hands Off Venezuela Formed
  89. British Columbia delegation to Venezuela reports back in Vancouver
  90. Come to the next meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Hands Off Venezuela!
  91. Recent HOV activities in Germany
  92. To the U.S. Government: Hands Off Venezuela! Signatures
  93. Bolivian trade union and social movement leaders support open letter to US trade unionists
  94. One of the largest European trade unions supports Venezuela
  95. Hands Off Venezuela Auction 2005
  96. HOV at the Winnipeg Social Forum
  97. Hands off Venezuela campaign launched in Vancouver!
  98. Open letter to US trade unionists - Signatures
  99. Venezuela trade union solidarity appeal launched for May Day
  100. Open letter to US trade unionists

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