Participate in the NO WAR ON VENEZUELA, NO TROOPS IN OUR STREETS week of actions November 15-23. Follow this link to endorse, register your local events, and/or find actions near you. We can stop this war—but only if people show up!
Send an email to President Trump to demand no war, no sanctions, no blockade of Venezuela
Over the past couple of weeks, we have seen indecision and contradictions by the president regarding the threat of war to Venezuela. On the one hand are the multiple US attacks on fishing boats and scores of persons killed by extrajudicial executions without due process. The attacks have also included at least one off the Pacific coast of Colombia, casualties from Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago, and the increased militarization of occupied Puerto Rico. President Trump has claimed the right to strike any nation, anywhere, in the name of the fake and utterly discredited “War on Drugs.” He has authorized the CIA to go into Venezuela to force regime change. On the other hand, the prospect of a new, endless war so close to home is not something people want in the US, and in Venezuela even a large majority of the opposition is against a US military intervention. Trump has started to backtrack on his threats, even saying that a military strike in Venezuela is unlikely. The vacillations of a known flip-flopper should not cause us to relax our efforts. If anything, it should motivate us, especially if he’s having second thoughts. Not a good time to back off.
Last week, the Senate rejected a bipartisan resolution brought by Senators Time Kaine and Rand Paul that would have prevented any further military strikes against Venezuela without congressional approval. The vote was 51-49 against. A similar resolution was rejected 50-48 in September. This means we it’s time to take our message to the streets.
The following articles illustrate that the threats to Venezuela come with threats to the whole Caribbean and Latin America. The first talks about how the threat of war in the Caribbean is affecting the people of Occupied Puerto Rico. The second discusses threats to Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia, who has been outspoken against the genocide in Gaza, and who has pledged that his country would not be used by the US to launch aggressions against Venezuela.
Following are some relevant educational events coming up:
- November 13: Hands Off Venezuela! Stop U.S. attacks on President Maduro and the
People’s Bolivarian government! presented by Hands Off Uhuru Fightback Coalition with
Jesus Rodriguez, Orinoco Tribune; Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance, and others
- LEPAIO—the Labor Education Project on AFL-CIO International Operations—is holding a panel on Venezuela, the AFL-CIO, and the Threat of US Invasion this coming WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 at 8:00 pm Eastern, 7:00 pm Central, 6:00 pm Mountain, and 5:00 pm Pacific.
Speakers:
- Steve Ellner, Historian and Professor Emeritus, Universidad Oriente, Venezuela
- James Jordan, Alliance for Global Justice
- Ricardo Ortiz, Labor Researcher, Puerto Rican Internationalist
The Trump government has threatened to invade Venezuela and overthrow the Maduro government.
The AFL-CIO and its US government-funded “Solidarity Center” has a long record of interference in Venezuela, and they indirectly supported the attempted coup in 2002.
This panel will look at the history and what workers can do today to help stop any proposed invasion, and to change the policy while building international labor worker links with the workers and people of Venezuela.
To join Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 850 4041 5266
We hope you will join us! Please share with your networks and ask them to share with their’s.
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