[van-announce] August 21 Conference on Cuba and Venezuela

[Kira Koshelanyk]

Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) Presents: 
FREE ALL DAY CONFERENCE 
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  CUBA and VENEZUELA IN THE ERA OF WAR AND OCCUPATION: 
  Why the U.S. is Targeting Cuba and Venezuela 
 (and what you can do about it)
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FEATURED SPEAKER: Vancouver City Councillor Tim Louis
on the history and current situation of imperialist intervention in Latin America  
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Saturday August 21
11am-5pm
IWA Hall - 2859 Commercial Drive
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  On May 6th 2004, the US announced that it was funelling $59million dollars into a four-pronged strategy of attacks on Cuba. This includes increasing the blockade, funding Miami-based terrorist groups and broadcasting illegal radio signals throughout the nation. 
   
  In Venezuela, there is similar pressure and attacks mounting. Internally, reactionary forces supported by the US are attacking the government, most recently with the presidential-recall referendum on August 15th 2004. The Venezuelan people turned out in record numbers to vote against the recall and marked a major victory for working people in Venezuela and around the world. 
   
VCSC is holding a free day-long public conference to discuss the current imperialist aggressions toward Cuba and Venezuela and the opening of the new era of war and occupation in Latin America. 
   
  With speakers, films and discussion we will expand on why we should defend the self-determination of these sovereign nations and build a movement in solidarity with the people of Cuba and Venezuela and against imperialist intervention.

  Saturday, August 21 
  11am-5pm 
  IWA Hall - 2859 Commercial Drive 
  (Commercial and 13th Ave) 
   
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  CONTACT US!
  cubacommunities at yahoo.ca  
  778 889 7664 
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  ENDORSERS TO DATE: Tim Louis - Vancouver City Councillor, Lisa Barrett - Mayor, Bowen Island, Hospital Employees Union, Free the Cuban Five Committee Vancouver, FMLN-Vancouver, Latin American Connexions, Building Bridges Human Rights Project, Simon Fraser Student Society, Cuba Education Collective, America Latina al Dia, Circulo Bolivariano Internacionalista-Vancouver, Group of Family and Friends of Political Prisoners in Mexico, Langara Students Union, Mobilization Against War and Occupation, SFU First Nations Student Association, Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice, Youth-3rd World Alliance, Queers United Against Kapitalism, Iranian Committee Against War and Occupation, Langara Womens Center, El Ecumenical Task Force for Justice in the Americas, Tudeh Party of Iran-Vancouver, Communist Party of Canada-Marxist Leninist, Wake up with Co-op, Student-Youth Committee Against War, Purple Thistle Youth Centre, Korean Student Network Against War, Redwire Native Youth Media, Knowledgeable Aboriginal Youth Advocates




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