CLASS

Wednesday 29th April from 1pm - 2pm Room D202
Victoria University, Footscray Park
For more info ring Jorge 0433 520 012
www.solidarityclubs.net
Speaker: Jo WIlliams, education researcher
Jo Williams is an education researcher and academic at Victoria University, and one of the organisers of the first International Academic Study Tour to Venezuela.

From Venezuela’s Communal Councils, to Brazil’s Participatory Budgeting; from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements, recuperated factories to cooperatives across the hemisphere- This documentary is a journey, which takes us across the Americas, to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy? Directed by Sílvia Leindecker & Michael Fox. [...]

April 10th 2009,by Carol Delgado - Znet
This is a reply for the Nation Symposium on Reimagining Socialism by Carol Delgado, a long-time Venezuelan activist and currently the Consul General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in New York.
To re-imagine and reinvent Socialism has been the Bolivarian Agenda and it is refreshing that progressives in the [...]

Talk by Jo Williams who led the Education exchange tour to Venezuela in February 2009. It was presented to the Feb 21, 2009 Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Forum in Melbourne.

Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network Forum Feb 21,2009.
Fred Fuentes speaks on the recent Constitutional changes in Venezuela.He has been a correspondent for Green Left Weekly in Venezuela for over 2 years and has worked for the International Miranda Centre in Venezuela.
Filmed by Direct Action Films www.youtube.com/directactionfilms

Talk presented by Jo Williams an activist with the Revolutionary Socialist Party and co-organiser of the January 2009 Education Study Exchange to Venezuela. The Talk was presented at the Empire, War and revolution seminar March 2009 in Melbourne

By Marcus Pabian

On February 15 some 6.3 million Venezuelans, 54.86% of voters, approved a constitutional amendment that allows all public officials to be re-elected more than once, thus enabling Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez to stand in the next presidential election in 2012. Retired Cuban president Fidel Castro praised the vote as “a victory [...]

February 19th 2009, by James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
PSUV leader Vanessa Davies denounced the collaboration between the private media and opposition parties against the amendment. (VTV) Mérida, February 18th 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com)– After 54.9% of Venezuelan voters approved a constitutional amendment to eliminate term limits on elected offices on Sunday, anti-amendment leaders conceded defeat and accused government [...]