A Look at George Ciccariello-Maher’s Building the Commune, Radical Democracy in Venezuela
By Stan Smith, Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee George Ciccariello-Maher, author of We Created Chavez, has come out with a short book, Venezuela, Building the Commune . Here the grassroots struggle to build a new society, focusing on the cooperatives, the community councils, the communes, established to strengthen popular participatory democracy, is keeping the Chavista revolution … Continue reading A Look at George Ciccariello-Maher’s Building the Commune, Radical Democracy in Venezuela
Medea Benjamin Code Pink Chicago Speaking Tour
Monday October 31, noon WBEZ Jerome McDonald Worldview Monday October 31, 6-7:30 pm 8th Day Center for Justice, 205 W. Monroe, Chicago Tuesday November 1, noon- 4:00 pm Purdue University, Calumet, Indiana November 1, 6:30- 8:00 pm City Lit Book Store, 2523 N Kedzie Blvd. Chicago Wednesday November 2, 3:00 to 4:30 pm Loyola … Continue reading Medea Benjamin Code Pink Chicago Speaking Tour
The War in Syria: Reportback from July Anti-War Delegation
Tuesday, October 4, 7m Loyola University (downtown) Corboy Law Center, room 301, 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago Joe Jamison, a member of the US Peace Council, reports on their July delegation of US antiwar organizations in Syria. At the request of the U.S. Peace Council, the Syrian government approved a 7-member delegation composed of representatives … Continue reading The War in Syria: Reportback from July Anti-War Delegation
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
Bernie Sanders in 1989 and the Fight Against Corporate Rule
July 7, 2016 “We need a new, progressive political party in the U.S. because on almost every important issue the Democratic and Republican Parties, both controlled by Big Money, are indistinguishable." The "Reagan Revolution… was brought about with the active and strong support of the Democratic Party which controlled the U.S. House of Representatives … Continue reading Bernie Sanders in 1989 and the Fight Against Corporate Rule
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