Category: Latin America

Fall 2016 Film Series: The Fight Against the 1%

Fall 2016 LoyolaFilm Series:  The Fight Against the 1%  Sundays,  2pm  Loyola University (downtown) Corboy Law Center, room  301,    25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago (one block north of Chicago & State Red line L stop)   September  18           Shock Doctrine                                78 min       2009  A documentary adaptation Naomi Klein's 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine. An investigation of … Continue reading Fall 2016 Film Series: The Fight Against the 1%

Behind the Bolivia Miner Cooperatives Protest and the Killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister

The Bolivian cooperatives’ protests and their August 25 killing of the Bolivian Vice Minister of the Interior Rodolfo Illanes requires us to question our assumptions about cooperatives.  What are the Bolivian mining cooperatives? Most began during the Great Depression as miners banded together to work a mine in common.  However, like many cooperatives in the … Continue reading Behind the Bolivia Miner Cooperatives Protest and the Killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister

The Gains of Rafael Correa’s Ecuador and Evo Morales’ Bolivia and the NGO Disinformation Campaign

Stan Smith, Chicago ALBA Solidarity Montreal World Social Forum workshop notes Aug 12 2016 9:00 - 11:30 Correa was elected president of Ecuador in 2007 and Evo Morales elected president of Bolivia in 2005. These two leaders have lead anti-neoliberal and anti-imperialist movements for genuine national independence. The living conditions of the peoples of these … Continue reading The Gains of Rafael Correa’s Ecuador and Evo Morales’ Bolivia and the NGO Disinformation Campaign

The US Economic and Media War on Venezuela and Cuba: US Regime Change and Organizing Against it

Wilmer Omar Barrientos Fernández, Ambassador of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Canada Eva, Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos Stan Smith, Chicago ALBA Solidarity Tamara Hansen, Fire This Time newspaper Alison Bodine, Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba Montreal World Social Forum  workshop Aug 10 2016 13:00 - 15:30 The Bolivarian government of Venezuela … Continue reading The US Economic and Media War on Venezuela and Cuba: US Regime Change and Organizing Against it

Venezuela: “We live under a financial dictatorship, under an ongoing business coup”

Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was founded in Venezuela in 1890. “We live under a financial dictatorship, under an ongoing business coup  - they do not produce enough because they do not want to, because they wish to see us Chavistas defeated” SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART IN VENEZUELA Translated by Stansfield … Continue reading Venezuela: “We live under a financial dictatorship, under an ongoing business coup”

Discussion With Cubans About Life Under Blockade During the Changing US-Cuban Relations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeRqQnBBpAo&t=69s This workshop with Cubans will present their separate views on how they see the process of re-establishing relations with the US. This includes explaining what remains unchanged with with US blockade, and the continuing damage this inflicts on Cuba. They will give their views on the daily life of the Cuban people, the economic … Continue reading Discussion With Cubans About Life Under Blockade During the Changing US-Cuban Relations

Defending their Gains – Cuban, Venezuelan, US Workers Against the 1%

Thursday May 19th, 6:30-8:30 pm Debs Hall, Workers United, 333 S. Ashland Felipe Perez Cruz, Member of National Union Cuban Historians (UNHIC) and Cuba Writers and Artist Union (UNEAC) Jesus Rodriguez Espinosa, Consul General, Consulate of Venezuela in Chicago Richard Monje, Manager and International Vice President, Chicago and Midwest Regional Joint Board, Workers United, SEIU Cuban working people still must struggle to … Continue reading Defending their Gains – Cuban, Venezuelan, US Workers Against the 1%