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Re: Venezuela

Postby Iamwhomiam » Wed Jul 19, 2017 12:22 pm

Grizzly » Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:30 pm wrote:I’ve respected Abby in the past, but for some reason this report doesn't set well with me, but I’m not sure why...

Anyway MOA just posted this:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/07/ze ... zuela.html


This short video was my introduction to Abby Martin. I sense agency operative. She's good, but when was it ever the case the wealthy could not afford food? For them there is no shortage of goods because they can afford the prices charged during a time of extraordinary inflation.

The official US exchange rate for the Venezuelan Bolivar is 1 for 10, yet the video relates it to be far above 5k Bolivars for $1. Que bono?
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Re: Venezuela

Postby conniption » Thu Jul 27, 2017 7:52 pm

off-guardian

Published on July 27, 2017
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The Guardian’s propaganda on Venezuela: all you need to know

by Ricardo Vaz, from InvestigAction.net

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With the Constituent Assembly elections due to take place on July 30th, the Guardian published a piece titled “Venezuela elections: all you need to know”. But instead of breaking through the fog of falsehood and misinformation that is typical of the mainstream media’s coverage of Venezuela, the Guardian comes up with another propaganda piece laden with lies, distortions and omissions. In this article we go through the Guardian’s piece, clarifying the falsehoods, adding the conveniently omitted information and questioning the whole narrative that is presented.

What is happening on 30 July? ... continues...

https://off-guardian.org/2017/07/27/the ... d-to-know/
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Re: Venezuela

Postby Elvis » Thu Jul 27, 2017 8:53 pm

^^^^ My default response to MSM news about Venezuela is to assume the opposite of what they're telling us.
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Re: Venezuela

Postby SonicG » Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:16 pm

Blustering around like a drunken sailor...

"The people are suffering and they are dying. We have many options for Venezuela including a possible military option if necessary," Trump told reporters.

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U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of military intervention in Venezuela was "an act of craziness," the South American country's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino told state television on Friday.
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"We are chavistas until death," Maradona wrote on his official Facebook page on Monday night, using a term to refer to supporters of late former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

"When Maduro orders, I am dressed as a soldier for a free Venezuela, to fight against the imperialism and those who want to take our flags, which is the most sacred thing we have.


Oh...and I must have forgot to take off my my red-baiting hysteria glasses because Russia is all over Venezuelan oil:

Venezuela’s unraveling socialist government is increasingly turning to ally Russia for the cash and credit it needs to survive – and offering prized state-owned oil assets in return, sources familiar with the negotiations told Reuters.

As Caracas struggles to contain an economic meltdown and violent street protests, Moscow is using its position as Venezuela’s lender of last resort to gain more control over the OPEC nation’s crude reserves, the largest in the world.

Venezuela's state-owned oil firm, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), has been secretly negotiating since at least early this year with Russia's biggest state-owned oil company, Rosneft (ROSN.MM) - offering ownership interests in up to nine of Venezuela's most productive petroleum projects, according to a top Venezuelan government official and two industry sources familiar with the talks.

Moscow has substantial leverage in the negotiations: Cash from Russia and Rosneft has been crucial in helping the financially strapped government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro avoid a sovereign debt default or a political coup.

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Speaking to reporters in at a hydroelectric plant in Russia last week, Sechin called Rosneft’s growing investments in Venezuela an obvious and essential play.

“This is a country with the world’s hydrocarbon reserves,” he said, referring to a central component of oil and natural gas. “Any energy company should aim to work in this country ... No one could force us from there.”

Russia was swift to defend Maduro's government from international criticism after the Supreme Court moved to nullify congress, with Moscow issuing a statement saying foreign governments should not meddle in Venezuelan domestic politics.

Sechin was Maduro's guest of honor at a ceremony last October to unveil a Russian-made granite statue of Chavez erected in the late president's hometown of Sabaneta.

In the sweltering heat, a Russian choir dressed in black sang the Venezuelan anthem in heavily accented Spanish before Sechin addressed the crowds of mostly red-shirted Socialist Party supporters.

"Thank you for trusting us,” Sechin told the crowd in Spanish during the speech, broadcast on Venezuelan state television. “Russia and Venezuela, together forever!”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vene ... SKBN1AR14U


How many and how fast can petro-rubles be infused to tamp down 700% inflation that new sanctions are sending higher every day? Hmmmm I think I smell some coup brewing...that too, will be very costly...
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Re: Venezuela

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Aug 11, 2017 11:08 pm

Trump
Russia
cash and credit
Rosneft
Moscow
Sechin

oh sorry I thought I was in the that other thread for a moment :P


Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino called Trump's talk of possible military action a "crazy act."
"As Minister of Defense and as a citizen I say this is a crazy act, an act of supreme extremism," Padrino said via phone on state-owned television network VTV.

"There is an extremist elite in the US government," he added, "and I really don't know what is happening and what will happen in the world. If humanity will end. If planet Earth will end."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/11/politics/ ... index.html
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Re: Venezuela

Postby brainpanhandler » Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:40 pm

Iamwhomiam » Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:22 am wrote:
Grizzly » Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:30 pm wrote:I’ve respected Abby in the past, but for some reason this report doesn't set well with me, but I’m not sure why...

Anyway MOA just posted this:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/07/ze ... zuela.html


This short video was my introduction to Abby Martin. I sense agency operative. She's good, but when was it ever the case the wealthy could not afford food? For them there is no shortage of goods because they can afford the prices charged during a time of extraordinary inflation.

The official US exchange rate for the Venezuelan Bolivar is 1 for 10, yet the video relates it to be far above 5k Bolivars for $1. Que bono?


Abby Martin an "agency operative" ?



Related note: Holy crap. Is it just me or is it becoming harder and harder to find good information recently (~ the last year)? Figuring out what is really going on inside Venezuela and why is a substantial project.
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Re: Venezuela

Postby PufPuf93 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 8:46 pm

Abby Martin is a smart, a talented artist, and attractive who manages to get access and provide alternative narratives that are more straightforward than MSM.

Is she an operative? Could be but maybe she is just an outstanding and brave person who perceived a need and filled it.

I have more trust in her reportage and analysis than most other sources.
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Re: Venezuela

Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:02 pm

PufPuf93 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 7:46 pm wrote:Abby Martin is a smart, a talented artist, and attractive who manages to get access and provide alternative narratives that are more straightforward than MSM.

Is she an operative? Could be but maybe she is just an outstanding and brave person who perceived a need and filled it.

I have more trust in her reportage and analysis than most other sources.


Total intuition speaking here, but anyone who has a TV show that they use as a platform to grieve for the death of Michael Ruppert is a good person and I share your trust.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWXbKOAHANQ
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Re: Venezuela

Postby PufPuf93 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 10:15 pm

stillrobertpaulsen » Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:02 pm wrote:
PufPuf93 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 7:46 pm wrote:Abby Martin is a smart, a talented artist, and attractive who manages to get access and provide alternative narratives that are more straightforward than MSM.

Is she an operative? Could be but maybe she is just an outstanding and brave person who perceived a need and filled it.

I have more trust in her reportage and analysis than most other sources.


Total intuition speaking here, but anyone who has a TV show that they use as a platform to grieve for the death of Michael Ruppert is a good person and I share your trust.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWXbKOAHANQ


Ruppert was not always correct, not a perfect person, made mistakes, and shortened and degraded his life pointing out what was going on in the world.

Crossing the Rubicon has flaws but also was so very timely and more often than not on point. Was not aware of Ruppert until post 9-11.

Had not seen that Abby Martin video and all the more reason to hold her in high regard.

Has Abby Martin commented on RussiaGate?

BTW Just noticed that you are one of two new Mods. Congrats. Hope this doesn't conflict with the travelogues of the West. :thumbsup
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Re: Venezuela

Postby American Dream » Thu Mar 08, 2018 10:39 pm

I definitely know people who are very, very supportive of Chavismo, though my own feelings about it are more complicated. That said, every time I hear Anglo-American bourgeoisie media reporting on the suffering and conflict, the undertone is clear: they want Venezuela to collapse. This pisses me off greatly, as I have lived with the violence that the gringos foment and I HATE IT.

Equally so, I also know folks who are much more supportive of the Cuban Revolution (I have more libertarian leanings, in the European sense of the word). That said, I have always been disgusted by the South Florida gusanos with their gun and drug running, money laundering and fanatical anti-Communism that never, ever could I support them at all. I like Silvio Rodriguez a lot, however.

So nothing's ever so simple in these matters, at least to me.
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Re: Venezuela

Postby PufPuf93 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:03 pm

American Dream » Thu Mar 08, 2018 7:39 pm wrote:I definitely know people who are very, very supportive of Chavismo, though my own feelings about it are more complicated. That said, every time I hear Anglo-American bourgeoisie media reporting on the suffering and conflict, the undertone is clear: they want Venezuela to collapse. This pisses me off greatly, as I have lived with the violence that the gringos foment and I HATE IT.

Equally so, I also know folks who are much more supportive of the Cuban Revolution (I have more libertarian leanings, in the European sense of the word). That said, I have always been disgusted by the South Florida gusanos with their gun and drug running, money laundering and fanatical anti-Communism that never, ever could I support them at all. I like Silvio Rodriguez a lot, however.

So nothing's ever so simple in these matters, at least to me.


I have tended to view the Bolivarian Revolution through the lens of native people and people from the slave trade rising to participate economically and politically in a society not so long ago dominated by white European colonialists.

I do not pay nearly as much attention as much as back in the GWB years when it was apparent that the policy of the USA was to foster instability in Venezuala plus the lust over the oil resource.

Used to read VenezuelaAnalysis regularly but have gotten out of habit. The site is what it is, a leftist bias but also in English so one can read what is hard to find elsewhere and have some empathy for what the country has been up against. That said, there is much corruption.

https://venezuelanalysis.com/
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Re: Venezuela

Postby American Dream » Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:14 pm

I wish the Bolivarian Revolution were more bottom up in the sense of "native people and people from the slave trade rising to participate economically and politically in a society not so long ago dominated by white European colonialists". My big concern is that the major decisions flow from top to bottom, rather than the reverse, e.g. that local autonomy is circumscribed to a good degree. I also think there's limits to caudillismo evenn though we sometimes do need leadership.

I felt similarly about the FMLN even though several people I knew suffered and died for that cause ( and had suffered before from death squads, massacres etc). I'm not a pacifist per se. I like struggle but I don't love violence.
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Re: Venezuela

Postby PufPuf93 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:38 pm

American Dream » Thu Mar 08, 2018 8:14 pm wrote:I wish the Bolivarian Revolution were more bottom up in the sense of "native people and people from the slave trade rising to participate economically and politically in a society not so long ago dominated by white European colonialists". My big concern is that the major decisions flow from top to bottom, rather than the reverse, e.g. that local autonomy is circumscribed to a good degree. I also think there's limits to caudillismo evenn though we sometimes do need leadership.

I felt similarly about the FMLN even though several people I knew suffered and died for that cause ( and had suffered before from death squads, massacres etc). I'm not a pacifist per se. I like struggle but I don't love violence.


The Bolivarian Revolution made initial progress but then the advances were rolled back and instability remains.
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Re: Venezuela

Postby American Dream » Fri Mar 09, 2018 2:54 am

I definitely agree but my sympathies lie most with the model of revolution from below, grassroots power, Autonomia, Libertarian Socialism, call it what you will.

In other words, less emphasis on Bureaucracy, Democratic Centralism, charismatic leaders and other such things which commonly went with 20th Century Socialism.

I did find Chavez an inspiring figure who was audacious in his successes at times, so him I could support some.

Much less so Gaddafi, the Mullahs in Iran, North Korea, etc. and in a different way I give mixed reviews to various Pink Tide leaders.




PufPuf93 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 10:38 pm wrote:The Bolivarian Revolution made initial progress but then the advances were rolled back and instability remains.
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Re: Venezuela

Postby seemslikeadream » Mon Mar 12, 2018 5:25 am

Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover Condemn U.S. and Canada Over Venezuela Sanctions

After the U.S. and Canada imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s socialist government Friday, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover joined 154 signatories in an open letter to Washington and Ottawa condemning the sanctions.

The letter explains that the sanctions will worsen political tensions and make life harder for Venezuela’s poor and urges the governments to reconsider.

“Sanctions merely complicate efforts by the Vatican, Dominican Republic, and other international actors to mediate a resolution to the deep polarization in Venezuela,” the letter states.

While the letter points to an attempt by the U.S. and Canada to topple Venezuela’s leadership, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has said he believes the sanctions are part of an international right-wing conspiracy intended to remove him and take control of the OPEC nation’s oil wealth, as Reuters reports.

The complete text of the open letter is below:

Open Letter in Support of Mediation Not Sanctions in Venezuela

We urge the United States and Canadian governments to immediately remove their illegal* sanctions against Venezuela and to support efforts at mediation between the government of Venezuela and the nonviolent segments of the political opposition.

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals in the U.S. and Canada, support hemispheric relations based on respect for the sovereignty of all peoples of the Americas. We are deeply concerned by the use of illegal sanctions, whose effect falls most heavily on the poorest and most marginal sectors of society, to coerce political and economic change in a sister democracy.

Polls in Venezuela show that the large majority of Venezuelans oppose sanctions, regardless of their opinion of the Maduro government. Sanctions merely complicate efforts by the Vatican, Dominican Republic, and other international actors to mediate a resolution to the deep polarization in Venezuela. Moreover, sanctions undermine efforts of the democratically elected government and Constituent Assembly to address critical economic issues and determine their own political destiny.

Despite the high-minded rhetoric of officials in Washington and Ottawa, it is not a genuine concern for democracy, human rights, and social justice that drives the belligerent interventionist posture towards Caracas. From former U.S. president Obama’s admittedly untrue presidential decree that Venezuela represents a national security threat to the United States, to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley’s declaration that Venezuela is "an increasingly violent narco-state" that threatens the world, the use of hyperbole in diplomatic situations seldom contributes to peaceful solutions on the world stage.

It is no secret that Venezuela, unlike Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia, is targeted for regime change by the U.S. precisely because of Venezuela’s leadership in resisting U.S. hegemony and the imposition of the neoliberal model in Latin America. And of course, Venezuela holds the largest oil reserves in the world, attracting more unwanted attention from Washington.

The U.S. and Canada tried and failed to use the Organization of American States (OAS) to build a bloc to hypocritically evoke the Democratic Charter against Venezuela. Recently, Luis Almagro, the rogue Secretary General of the OAS, went so far as to publicly support the swearing in of a parallel Supreme Court unconstitutionally appointed by opposition legislators and allowed them to use the OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C. for their ceremony -- without the approval of any OAS member state. Almagro has thereby delegitimized the OAS, emboldened the most extreme and violent elements of the Venezuelan opposition, and side-lined efforts at mediation.

The U.S.-Canadian sanctions represent a cynical use of coercive economic power to attack a nation that is already dealing with hyperinflation and shortages of basic commodities. While said to be in the name of advancing democracy and freedom, the sanctions violate the Venezuelan peoples' basic human right to sovereignty, as outlined in the UN and OAS Charters.

We call on the political leaders of the United States and Canada to reject overheated rhetoric and to contribute to the search for real solutions to Venezuela’s political and economic problems. We urge the U.S. and Canadian governments to rescind their sanctions and support the mediation efforts pursued by the Chancellor of the Dominican Republic Miguel Vargas, the President of Dominican Republic Danilo Medina, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Vatican, and supported by a growing number of Latin American nations.

* Chapter 4 Article 19 of the OAS Charter states:

No State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the internal or external affairs of any other State. The foregoing principle prohibits not only armed force but also any other form of interference or attempted threat against the personality of the State or against its political, economic, and cultural elements.

Signers:

United States

Noam Chomsky

Danny Glover, Citizen-Artist

Estela Vazquez, Executive Vice President, 1199 SEIU

Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, Archdiocese of Detroit

Jill Stein, Green Party

Peter Knowlton, General President, United Electrical Workers

Dr. Frederick B. Mills, Department of Philosophy, Bowie State University

Dr. Alfred de Zayas, former Chief, Petitions Dept, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Medea Benjamin, co-founder, Code Pink

Dan Kovalik, Counsel, United Steelworkers Union

Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local10 (retired)

Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, President, National Lawyers Guild

Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice

James Early, Articulation of Afro Descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gloria La Riva, coordinator, Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee

Karen Bernal, Chair, Progressive Caucus, California Democratic Party

Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, co-directors, Popular Resistance

Chris Bender, Administrator, SEIU 1000, retired

Mary Hanson Harrison, President Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section

Alfred L. Marder, President, US Peace Council

Tamie Dramer, Executive Boardmember, California Democratic Party

Greg Wilpert, journalist

School of Americas Watch (SOAW) Coordinating Collective

Gerry Condon, President, Board of Directors, Veterans for Peace

Tiana Ocasio, President, Connecticut Labor Council for Latin American Advancement

Leah Bolger, Coordinator, World Beyond War

Alexander Main, Senior Assoc for Intl Policy, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Kevin Martin, President, Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund

Dr. Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Berthony Dupont, Director, Haiti Liberté Newspaper

Marsha Rummel, Adlerperson, City of Madison Common Council, District 6

Monica Moorehead, Workers World Party

Kim Ives, Journalist, Haiti Liberté

Cindy Sheehan, Cindy's Soapbox

Claudia Lucero, Executive Director, Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America

William Camacaro, Venezuela activist

Baltimore Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter Veterans For Peace

David W. Campbell, Secretary-Treasurer, USW Local 675 (Carson, CA)

Alice Bush, retired Northwest Indiana Division Director SEIU Local 73

Teresa Gutierrez, Co-Director International Action Center

Claire Deroche, NY Interfaith Campaign Against Torture

Eva Golinger, journalist and writer

The Cross Border Network (Kansas City)

Antonia Domingo, Pittsburgh Labor Council for Latin American Advancement

David Swanson, Director of World Beyond War

Matt Meyer, National Co-chair, Fellowship of Reconciliation

Rev. Daniel Dale, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), CLRN Board of Directors

Daniel Chavez, Transnational Institute

Kathleen Desautels, SP (8th Day Center for Justice*)

Michael Eisenscher, National Coord. Emeritus, U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW)

Dr. Paul Dordal, Director, Christian Network for Liberation and Equality

Dr. Douglas Friedman, Director International Studies, College of Charleston

Fr. Charles Dahm, Archdiocesan Director of Domestic Violence Outreach

Blase Bonpane, Director, Office of the Americas

Larry Birns, Director, Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Task Force on the Americas

Dr. Sharat G. Lin, former president, San Jose Peace and Justice Center

Stansfield Smith, Chicago ALBA Solidarity

Alicia Jrapko, U.S. coordinator, International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity

National Network on Cuba

Diana Bohn, Co-coordinator, Nicaragua Center for Community Action

Joe Jamison, Queens NY Peace Council

Jerry Harris, National Secretary, Global Studies Association of North America

MLK Coalition of Greater Los Angeles

Charlie Hardy, author, Cowboy in Caracas

Dan Shea, National Board, Veterans For Peace

Houston Peace and Justice Center

Dr. Christy Thornton, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Code Pink Houston

Workers Solidarity Action Network.org

Rochester Committee on Latin America

Patricio Zamorano, Academic and International Affairs Analyst

Cliff Smith, business manager, Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers, Local 36

Michael Bass, Convener, School of the Americas Watch-Oakland/East Bay

Joe Lombardo, Marilyn Levin, Co-Coordinators of United National Antiwar Committee

Dr. Jeb Sprague-Silgado, University of California Santa Barbara

Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC)

Dr. Pamela Palmater, Mi’kmaq lawyer Chair in Indigenous Governance Ryerson University

Lee Gloster, Steward IBT 364, Trustee, N. Central IN Labor Chapter, N. IN Area Labor Federation

Celeste Howard, Secretary, WILPF, Portland Branch (Oregon)

Mario Galván, Sacramento Action for Latin America

Hector Gerardo, Executive Director, 1 Freedom for All

Jorge Marin, Venezuela Solidarity Committee

Ricardo Vaz, writer and editor of Investig'Action

Dr. T.M. Scruggs, University of Iowa, Professor Emeritus

Dr. Mike Davis, Dept. of Creative Writing, Univ. of CA, Riverside; editor of the New Left Review

Dr. Lee Artz, Dept of Media Studies; Director, Center for Global Studies, Purdue University Northwest

Dr. Arturo Escobar, Dept. of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Cheri Honkala, Director, Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign

Suren Moodliar, Coordinator, Encuentro5 (Boston)

Dr. Jack Rasmus, Economics Dept., St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California

Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Rich Whitney, Co-chair, Green Party Peace Action Committee

David Bacon, independent photojournalist

Dr. Kim Scipes, Department of Sociology, Purdue University Northwest

Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action

Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)

Henry Lowendorf, Co-chair, Greater New Haven Peace Council

Judith Bello, Ed Kinane (founders), Upstate Drone Action

Dr. Daniel Whitesell, Lecturer in the Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA

Dr. William I. Robinson, Sociology and Global and International Studies, UC-Santa Barbara

Emmanuel Rozental, Vilma Almendra, Pueblos en Camino, Abya Yala

Ben Manski, President, Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution

Frank Pratka, Baltimore-Matanzas Association/Maryland-Cuba Friendship Coalition

Dr. Hilbourne Watson, Emeritus, Department of International Relations, Bucknell University

Dr. Minqi Li, Economics Department, University of Utah

Christina Schiavoni, PhD researcher, Boston

Dr. Robert E. Birt, Department of Philosophy, Bowie State University

Topanga Peace Alliance

Judy Somberg, Susan Scott, Esq., Co-chairs, National Lawyers Guild Task Force on the Americas

Audrey Bomse, Esq., Co-chair, National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee

Daniel Chavez, Transnational Institute

Barby Ulmer, Board President, Our Developing World

Barbara Larcom, Coordinator, Casa Baltimore/Limay; President, Nicaraguan Cultural Alliance

Nick Egnatz, Veterans for Peace

Dr. Marc Becker, Latin American Studies, Truman State University

Dr. John H. Sinnigen, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

Dr. Dale Johnson, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Rutgers University

Sulutasen Amador, Co-coordinator, Chukson Water Protectors

Mara Cohen, Communications Hub, Trade Justice Alliance

Dorotea Manuela, Co-Chair Rosa Parks Human Right Committee

Efia Nwangaza, Malcom X Center - WMXP Community Radio

Dr. Chris Chase-Dunn, Sociology, University of California-Riverside

Dr. Nick Nesbitt, Comparative Literature, Princeton

Timeka Drew, coordinator, Global Climate Convergence

Jack Gilroy, Friends of Franz & Ben www.bensalmon.org

Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, Social Justice Committee

Victor Wallis, Professor, Liberal Arts, Berkeley College of Music

Canada

Jerry Dias, President, UNIFOR

Mike Palecek, National President, Canadian Union of Postal Workers

Harvey Bischof, President, Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation

Mark Hancock National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees

Robyn Benson, National President, Public Service Alliance of Canada

Stephanie Smith, President of the British Columbia Government and Service Employees’ Union

Dr. Pamela Palmater, Mi’kmaq lawyer Chair in Indigenous Governance Ryerson University

Linda McQuaig, journalist and author, Toronto

Raul Burbano, Program Director, Common Frontiers

Miguel Figueroa, President, Canadian Peace Congress

Rights Action (U.S. and Canada)

Joe Emersberger, writer, UNIFOR member

Heide Trampus, Coordinator, Worker to Worker, Canada-Cuba Labour Solidarity Network

Nino Pagliccia, Jorge Arancibia, Marta Palominos, Frente para la Defensa de los Pueblos Hugo Chavez

Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice Venezuela Solidarity Campaign – Vancouver

The Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War

Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC)

Maude Barlow, Chairperson, Council of Canadians

Canadian Network on Cuba

Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) – Vancouver

Dr. William Carroll, University of Victoria, Canada

Andrew Dekany, LL.M, Lawyer

Dr. Leo Panitch, Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto

Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights (CPSHR)

Alma Weinstein, Bolivarian Circle Louis Riel Toronto

Maria Elena Mesa, Coord, Sunday Poetry and Festival Internacional de Poesia Patria Grande, Toronto

Dr. Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba

Other

Sergio Romero Cuevas, former Mexican Ambassador to Haiti

Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos, Oaxaca, Mexico
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