40 years since triumph of Salvador Allende, September 4
CENTRO CULTURAL PABLO NERUDA
Te Invita a celebrar los 40 años del triunfo del Gobierno Popular de SALVADOR ALLENDE, Nos juntamos el Sabado 4 de Septiembre desde las 14.00 hrs. en la Iglesia de Piedra en Footscray donde disfrutaremos de un rico Costillar de Chancho con agregados.
Valor $ 20 . Agradeceremos confirmar su participacion a los siguientes telefonos:
Alexandra Saenz 04-21235795 o Paul G. 04-48800011
Venezuela calls for international solidarity as US threats mount
By Roberto Jorquera
On September 26 the people of Venezuela will again head to the polls, to vote for the 165-member National Assembly. Since 2004 Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution has faced the people in a major election at least once a year: the 2004 regional elections, 2005 National Assembly elections, 2006 presidential elections, 2007 constitutional referendum, 2008 state and municipal elections and 2009 constitutional referendum. No other government in the world has faced so many electoral contests in the last six years.
An evening celebrating the culture of resistance & struggle
A
n commemoration of the life of Pablo Neruda
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. (Neruda)
Pablo Neruda was an outstanding example of the artistic beauty that comes from a life inspired by a deep feeling of love for humanity and the socialist conviction to change the world for the better.
Poets, song writers and singers come together to celebrate our struggles and the activism, convictions and commitment that sustain them.
All funds will go to the Latin American Solidarity Conference, Challenging corporate globalisation: people’s power is changing the world (Melbourne October 8-9, Sydney October 16-17)
Saturday July 31, 7pm
Maritime Union of Australia 46-54 Ireland St West Melbourne
Suggested donation $10/5
For info contact Paul 0413 072 137 and Lulu 0421 957 341
The cultural evening will be preceded by a showing of the new film QUIEN DIJO MIEDO, about the Honduran coup and the resistance struggle against it. Film starts@ 4pm.
Quien Dijo Miedo is also showing at:
Challenging corporate globalisation: people’s power is changing the world
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A Solidarity Conference organised by the Latin America Forum
MELBOURNE October 8-9, 2010, Victoria Trades Hall
SYDNEY October 16-17, 2010, NSW Teachers Federation
Featuring guest speakers from:
Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador, Chile, Mexico and Honduras
Whether it is the global financial crisis, endless wars, runaway climate change or the millions of people starving in the Third World, the symptoms of an international capitalist system in deep crisis are all around us.
This crisis threatens the very existence of humanity, and peoples around the world are responding with resistance, rebellions and revolutions.
In Latin America, a tide of rebellion against imperialist control is transforming the political landscape - in Latin America and internationally. From Cuba to Venezuela, Bolivia to El Salvador and Ecuador, people’s power is toppling neo-liberal governments, challenging corporate control, and starting to construct social, political and economic alternatives to the plunder, war and injustices of the old system.
Imperialism is scrambling to maintain control of Latin America - orchestrating coups, establishing new military bases and pouring billions of dollars into shoring up the corrupt old elite. But the people are wining.
The Venezuelan revolution, with its vision of “socialism of the 21st century”, is building on the Cuban revolution in providing examples of what popular power can achieve for the oppressed. The Indigenous people of Bolivia, led by President Evo Morales, are challenging Western governments’ and corporations’ “business as usual” response to climate change with a radical plan of action to rescue “Mother Earth”. And the growing Latin American unity around economic and social programs based on national sovereignty and respect are creating an alternative axis of cooperation that is empowering the Third World.
The Latin America Solidarity Conferences in Melbourne and Sydney are forums for all people wanting to learn about, learn from and build solidarity in Australia with the people’s power movements in Latin America. Come along and join the discussions on:
- Imperialism, war & resistance
- Popular power and people’s governments
- Workers’ struggles, workers’ rights & workers’ control
- The battle for environmental justice & survival
- Building solidarity in Australia & internationally
For more info email:
Melbourne Latin America Forum: laf.victoria@gmail.com
Sydney LASF: lasfsydney@gmail.com
Organised by the Latin America Forum-Victoria & the Sydney Latin America Social Forum
Sponsored by: Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network, Centre for Latin America Solidarity and Studies, Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Chile (Australia), Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (Australia), Guatemala National Revolutionary Unity URNG-MAIZ (Australia), Guatemalan Human Rights Committee, Peace and Justice for Colombia, Revolutionary Socialist Party, Socialist Alliance, Ibiray-Fondo Raul Sendic.
