[opirgyork] LACSN Solidarity Month

[Eva]

Dear Friends,

APRIL is the Latin America & Caribbean Solidarity Month!! We intend to honour
the life and achievements of President Hugo Chavez in reflecting on and
building the themes for this year which are peace, justice and solidarity.

Through collective reflection, discussion, debate and critical engagement,
events may explore creative alternatives to the dominant global economic and
political paradigms. Together, we will create safe spaces to reflect on the
nature of our relationships and our communities and re-work our notions of
peace, justice and solidarity here on Turtle Island and in other parts of the
Global South.

As our communities struggle to secure peace, the struggle to restore justice, to
defend Mother Earth, to assert sovereignty, is itself not peaceful. It is a
struggle against colonial violence, capitalist commodification, and state
impunity. Nonetheless, our struggles are important community-building peace
processes.

We invite you to help our communities and networks to reflect on these
foundational issues.

We offer some questions as a starting point but welcome other themes and ideas
that relate to solidarity, peace and justice:

- Is peace the subtle potential for war, or its absolute absence?
- What is the basis for a just peace between Indigenous and anti-imperial
struggles on Turtle Island?
- How might the maintenance of peace be possible in the face of continual
imperial intervention and global inequality?
- What kind of anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-oppression work do we need to do
in our communities and in our solidarity work in order to build alternatives
that challenge the global neoliberal capitalist agenda?

To host an event during solidarity week, please contact by email:
lacsncanada at gmail.com

For more information about the month of soldarity see our
website : http://lacsn.weebly.com/events--eventos.html
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/146151078886501/?fref=ts


In Solidarity,
Eva Portillo
Coordinator, Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network