Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee

Fire This Time

Since attempting a coup against the democratically elected President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro on January 23, 2019 the U.S. government and their allies, including the government of Canada, have been escalating their brutal intervention campaign. This includes increasing sanctions against Venezuela and continuing to make dangerous threats against the Maduro government and the people of Venezuela.

March and Rally

We will come together to unite the community in a march and rally. We will lift up the voices of all exploited people to fight for a WISCONSIN WHERE ALL FAMILIES CAN PROSPER.

Visit the Facebook pages of these organizing groups for start locations and ongoing info:
● Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement
● Sheboygan Comm-UNITY March
● Crusaders Of Justicia

More info: sheboygancommunity@gmail.com

PDF’s of English and Spanish Fliers:

PeoplesOffensiveFlyer01 March 23 2019 Sheboygan

PeoplesOffensiveFlyer02-Spanish March 23 2019

United Educators for Justice – UEJ

Chicago Teachers Union

Bargaining Rally at Civic Center Park

Denver Classroom Teachers Association – DCTA‎

Join educators, parents, and community leaders for a rally at Civic Center Park in support of the DCTA bargaining team!  #DCTAStrong #RedforEd

https://www.blackagendareport.com/

https://bit.ly/2X0PKdp

https://blackallianceforpeace.com/

BY NICOLÁS MADURO

February 7, 2019

If I know anything, it is about peoples, such as you, I am a man of the people. I was born and raised in a poor neighborhood of Caracas. I forged myself in the heat of popular and union struggles in a Venezuela submerged in exclusion and inequality. I am not a tycoon, I am a worker of reason and heart, today I have the great privilege of presiding over the new Venezuela, rooted in a model of inclusive development and social equality, which was forged by Commander Hugo Chávez since 1998 inspired by the Bolivarian legacy.

We live today a historical trance. There are days that will define the future of our countries between war and peace. Your national representatives of Washington want to bring to their borders the same hatred that they planted in Vietnam. They want to invade and intervene in Venezuela – they say, as they said then – in the name of democracy and freedom. But it’s not like that. The history of the usurpation of power in Venezuela is as false as the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It is a false case, but it can have dramatic consequences for our entire region.

Venezuela is a country that, by virtue of its 1999 Constitution, has broadly expanded the participatory and protagonist democracy of the people, and that is unprecedented today, as one of the countries with the largest number of electoral processes in its last 20 years. You might not like our ideology or our appearance, but we exist and we are millions.

I address these words to the people of the United States of America to warn of the gravity and danger that intend some sectors in the White House to invade Venezuela with unpredictable consequences for my country and for the entire American region. President Donald Trump also intends to disturb noble dialogue initiatives promoted by Uruguay and Mexico with the support of CARICOM for a peaceful solution and dialogue in favor of Venezuela. We know that for the good of Venezuela we have to sit down and talk because to refuse to dialogue is to choose strength as a way. Keep in mind the words of John F. Kennedy: “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate”. Are those who do not want to dialogue afraid of the truth?

The political intolerance towards the Venezuelan Bolivarian model and the desires for our immense oil resources, minerals, and other great riches, has prompted an international coalition headed by the US government to commit the serious insanity of militarily attacking Venezuela under the false excuse of a non-existent humanitarian crisis.

The people of Venezuela have suffered painfully social wounds caused by a criminal commercial and financial blockade, which has been aggravated by the dispossession and robbery of our financial resources and assets in countries aligned with this demented onslaught.

And yet, thanks to a new system of social protection, of direct attention to the most vulnerable sectors, we proudly continue to be a country with high human development index and lower inequality in the Americas.

The American people must know that this complex multiform aggression is carried out with total impunity and in clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations, which expressly outlaws the threat or use of force, among other principles and purposes for the sake of peace and the friendly relations between the Nations.

We want to continue being business partners of the people of the United States, as we have been throughout our history. Their politicians in Washington, on the other hand, are willing to send their sons and daughters to die in an absurd war, instead of respecting the sacred right of the Venezuelan people to self-determination and safeguarding their sovereignty.

Like you, people of the United States, we Venezuelans are patriots. And we shall defend our homeland with all the pieces of our soul. Today Venezuela is united in a single clamor: we demand the cessation of the aggression that seeks to suffocate our economy and socially suffocate our people, as well as the cessation of the serious and dangerous threats of military intervention against Venezuela. We appeal to the good soul of the American society, a victim of its own leaders, to join our call for peace, let us be all one people against warmongering and war.

Long live the peoples of America!

Nicolás Maduro
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

https://www.generalstrike2019.org/

https://www.afacwa.org/

The 35-day government shutdown and lockout was immoral and it put us all at risk, as workers and as Americans. Safety, security and the whole economy are on the line.

Almost two million workers have been locked out or forced to work without pay. Others are going to work when our workspace is increasingly unsafe. The entire airline industry is in jeopardy. No one will get out of this unscathed. What are we waiting for?

This unprecedented action by our government requires an unprecedented response from our nation. We believe it is time to talk about a general strike.

A true general strike would take months of planning. But we cannot allow that to stop us from taking action now. We must do what we can immediately.

Working people have power when we come together. If Congress chooses the chaos of a continued lockout, we will use our power.

If the shutdown continues on February 16, we call on all Americans to join us in protest at our nation’s airports to show what workers united can achieve.

We demand a government that works for all people, including:

• Stop the shutdown and pass long-term, stable funding
• Back pay for all federal workers and contractors
• Pass legislation to end government shutdowns and never lock workers out again
• Improve federal labor law so workers can protest injustice without retaliation

Led by courageous aviation workers, whose lives and livelihoods are endangered if the shutdown continues, we will come together and demand that Washington stop playing political games with our safety and security.

Together, we have the power to end this nightmare for millions of Americans and demand a government that works for all of us.

Rally in Solidarity with Muslims

Please join this solidarity rally on Friday, February 15 at 9 am for the Bullet Cab company and its owner’s family at their business: 2001 State Road, La Crosse (near 20th St.).