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
DePaul Fall 2014 Film Series: Peoples’ Struggles in the Americas
DePaul University Schmitt Academic Center Room 254 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue. Chicago (2 blocks west of Fullerton Red Line) Sundays at 2pm October 26 Revolutionary Medicine : The Story of the First Garifuna Hospital Speaker from Honduras Solidarity Network Revolutionary Medicine is a 45-minute documentary by Beth Geglia and Jesse Freeston, who had been … Continue reading DePaul Fall 2014 Film Series: Peoples’ Struggles in the Americas
Fall 2014 Film Series: Peoples Struggles in the Americas
DePaul University Schmitt Academic Center Room 254 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue. Chicago (2 blocks west of Fullerton Red Line) Sundays at 2pm October 26 Revolutionary Medicine: The Story of the First Garifuna Hospital Speaker from Honduras Solidarity Network Revolutionary Medicine is a 45-minute documentary by Beth Geglia and Jesse Freeston, who had been … Continue reading Fall 2014 Film Series: Peoples Struggles in the Americas
Book Review: Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions – The Future of Twenty-First-Century Socialism
http://www.coha.org/latin-americas-turbulent-transitions-the-future-of-twenty-first-century-socialism-2013/ Stansfield Smith, Guest Scholar for the Council On Hemispheric Affairs. Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions – The Future of Twenty-First-Century Socialism (2013) 208pp $29.95 Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, Winnipeg; Zed Books, London, New York Latin America’s Turbulent Transition is a well-written and highly informative book for comprehending the “new” Latin … Continue reading Book Review: Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions – The Future of Twenty-First-Century Socialism
Chicago ALBA Solidarity 