Interview with Alberto Roque Guerra

Alberto Roque Guerra has been active in the LGBT movement in Cuba for a number of years. He was interviewed on July 12, 2015 in Havana by Stan Smith of the Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee.    May 24, 2014 he spoke in Chicago on the case of the Cuban 5 political prisoners in an event partly … Continue reading Interview with Alberto Roque Guerra

Venezuela is not a Threat, We are Hope

Venezuela no es una Amenaza, Somos Esperanza Maximilien Sánchez Arvelaiz Ambassador designate, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela   Thursday, May 14 at 7:00pm DePaul University, Schmitt Academic Center, Room 164 2320 N. Kenmore, Chicago  Sponsored by DePaul University  Department of History,  & Chicago Stands with Venezuela follow us on Facebook: Chicago Stands with Venezuela

The Progressive Movement and Chuy Garcia’s Campaign for Chicago Mayor

http://mltoday.com/article/2180-the-progressive-movement-and-chuy-garcia-s-campaign-for-chicago-may/30 Many progressives, and leftists, disillusioned with, some even ideologically opposed to, the two-party system, were excited about Chuy Garcia's campaign for mayor of Chicago. In the end, Chuy lost the April 7 run-off election, receiving 44.3% to Rahm's 55.7%. Chuy's greatest backer was the Chicago Teachers Union, which led an exemplary and heroic 2012 … Continue reading The Progressive Movement and Chuy Garcia’s Campaign for Chicago Mayor

Framing North Korea

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/09/framing-north-korea/ When it comes to North Korea, for the US government and its media, time stands still. They remain fixated in the 1950s Joe McCarthy worldview: the Red-Yellow peril, a monster capable of unimaginable evil, threatens our civilization and freedoms. North Korea’s Kim family is presented as three reincarnations of a Communist Dr. Fu Manchu. … Continue reading Framing North Korea

Chicago celebrates the Return of the Cuban 5, Steps Ending the US Travel Ban and Blockade against Cuba – and Opposes US Sanctions on Venezuela

On Tuesday, December 23 at the Chicago Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela over 100 people turned out to celebrate Cuba’s victory and to oppose the new sanctions on Venezuela. Let's not allow the US government to take its boot off the neck of Cuba, just to put it on Venezuela's. The freeing of … Continue reading Chicago celebrates the Return of the Cuban 5, Steps Ending the US Travel Ban and Blockade against Cuba – and Opposes US Sanctions on Venezuela

Ten Years of ALBA: Building a Better World South of the Border

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/19/building-a-better-world-south-of-the-border/ https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/ten-years-alba%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99s-achievements-celebrated Stansfield Smith, Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban 5, and member of the Latin America Solidarity Coalition. This week we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America), an anti-imperialist and anti-neoliberal alliance of Latin American countries. ALBA, meaning dawn in Spanish, is a … Continue reading Ten Years of ALBA: Building a Better World South of the Border

The Achievements of Correa’s Ecuador and Evo Morales’ Bolivia

Saturday November 29,  6 pm College of ComplexesHilltop Restaurant, 2800 W. Foster (at California) Report back on trips to both countries by Stan Smith, Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban 5 Evo Morales’ Bolivia and Rafael Correa’s Ecuador provide us with examples of how governments representing the 99% can take decisive action against corporate control … Continue reading The Achievements of Correa’s Ecuador and Evo Morales’ Bolivia

Presentation on the ALBA Countries at SOA Watch Protest

Our task is to oppose imperialist meddling, but  “The challenges Bolivia faces cannot be simply reduced to a question of “imperialist meddling”: they are a direct result of centuries of colonialism and imperialist oppression, which have entrenched  Bolivia in its role within the world economy as a dependent raw commodity exporter. Any chance Bolivia has … Continue reading Presentation on the ALBA Countries at SOA Watch Protest