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Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:21 AM
Subject: Two Events in Solidarity with Latin America
The
IAC urges you to support these two events in solidarity with Latin
America.
Cuba
Venezuela North America Labor Conference to take place December 9 &
10 in Tijuana, Mexico. To endorse or attend, do not reply to this
email. Send your email to laborexchange at aol.com
Go
with the U.S. Cuba Labor Exchange to Venezuela and Colombia in Jan. 2006.
Attend the VI World Social Forum to take place in Caracas on Jan 21 and also
travel to Bogota on Feb. 2. Reply to laborexchange at aol.com
Cuba/Venezuela/North
America Labor Conference
Conferencia
Cuba/Venezuela/Norte America
December 9, 10 & 11,
2005
Tijuana, Mexico
Discuss:
US/Cuba/Venezuela
Relations; the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas: an alternative to the
FTAA/ALCA; Immigration
Invited Cuban and Venezuelan Union
representatives:
Leonel Gonzalez Gonzalez, Director of Foreign Relations
of the CTC, Cuba
Manuel Montero Bistilliero, Director of the Americas,
Department of Foreign Relation of the CTC, Cuba
Ermela García Santiago,
Director of the National School of Cadre of the CTC, Lázaro Peña
Jose
Gil, General Secretary of the Aluminium Workers Union ALCASA and one of the
National Coordinators for the labor central known as the National Union of
Workers (Unión Nacional de Trabajadores, or UNT)
Jose Ramon Rivero,
Director of Aluminiums of Venezuela
Edison Earl Brown, Official Interpreter
of the CTC, Cuba
Join the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange delegation -
participate in
the
VI World Social Forum in Caracas,
Venezuela (Jan 21 – Feb 1)
and Bogota, Colombia
(Feb. 1 – 4)
Saturday, Jan
21 to Saturday, Feb 4, 2006 $1, 650
*
Our hosts will
be the Venezuelan Trade Union Federation (UNT). In Bogota, Colombia
from February 1 to 4 meet with leaders and rank and file union members. We will
also tour and visit workplaces. The price of the trip include: round trip
airfare from New York City, Caracas, Venezuela to Bogota,
Colombia, hotel (double occupancy) 2 meals per day (breakfast and dinner),
internal transportation to and from the program, translation, visas and the
program. * The price of $1, 650
is good until the end of October. The price may increase for any application
made after that date.
Don't forget these important upcoming
events:
An Evening of Solidarity
with Bolivarian Venezuela - Tuesday, November 8
6:30 p.m., Town
Hall, 123 W. 43rd St., btw. 6th Ave. & Broadway, NYC
Alberto Lovera
Bolivarian Circle, Padre Luis Barrios, Ramsey Clark, Noam Chomsky, Peter Coyote,
Marcia Campos, Danny Glover, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, August Nimitz, James
Petras, U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano, Rev. Lucius Walker and Howard Zinn invite you to
an Evening of Solidarity with Bolivarian Venezuela
For tickets, or to
endorse: 212.633.6646
For more info: www.venezuelanov8.org, www.aporrea.org
Rosa Parks Anniversary
Nationwide Strike Against Poverty, Racism - Thursday, December
1
-No School -No Work -No
Shopping
Mass March on Wall St. in NYC
Fifty years ago, Rosa
Parks helped launch the modern Civil Rights movement when she refused to give up
her bus seat to a white man, defying the racist segregation laws and saprking
the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This struggle demonstrated that the only
effective way to make real change is to build a grassroots movement in the
streets.
A nationwide coalition of civil rights, antiwar, labor, and
community activists is calling for a Nationwide Strike Against Poverty, Racism,
and War on Decmeber 1, the 50th Anniversary of Rosa Parks' heroic act.
Across the country, students, activists, and labor organizers are planning
walkouts, teach-ins, direct action, and protests.
For more information, to
endorse, or to list your local action, go to TroopsOutNow.org