Programme
MONDAY 9th
Latinoamerican Liberation Exhibition
private view
6pm to 10pm
RampART Social Centre Art Gallery,
Rampart St, Whitechapel E1
Caracas'style vegie hotdogs and
drinks
Artists talks about their work
and their vision of Latinamerica
Art performances
Discussion and Q& A with David
Raby, The Bolivarian Movement in Venezuela,
from 'liberation circles' to government-supported
social centres and grassroots radio stations.
TUESDAY 10th
Cuba & Venezuela:
Two
countries the US thinks have "gone bad"
2pm till 10pm
RampART Social Centre Art Gallery,
Rampart St, Whitechapel E1
Rock Around the Blockade host an
afternoon of debate and discussions, developing into an evening social
with life music and authentic food and film.
Salsa lessons: "It's not my
revolution if I can't dance to it"!
Film screening
video documentary by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi,
Hip Hop Cubano provides a unique insight into the realities and politics
of contemporary Cuba
WEDNESDAY 11th
Creating a caring economy
7pm till 9pm
London School of Economics, Kingsway,
Holborn
How could Venezuela tell the World
Bank to stick their loans, what is the Bolivarian alternative to ALCA,
and what does a 'worker-friendly goverment' really mean for the new
popular trade union, the UNT?
Film screening at Rampart Creative
Social Centre from 9pm
The Revolution will not be Televised
THURSDAY 12th
Networking evening of Latinamerican
Solidarity
6pm to 10pm
RampART Social Centre Art Gallery,
Rampart St, Whitechapel E1
Campaings, institutions and individuals
gathering together for a join perspective on the regional issues of
war "free trade", neo-colonialism and US egemony, plus the
fight back against them. Starts with the report back from the Colombia
solidarity campaing on the flashpoint border-region of Arauca (aka "the
laboratory of war")
FRIDAY 13th
"Media-Coup" in Venezuela
film screening
with Tariq
Ali who has just came back from Venezuela and Indy
media
2pm to 12m
Discussion 6pm to 10pm
RampART Social Centre Art Gallery,
Rampart St, Whitechapel E1
Front-line in the war of ideas.
Debriefing from indymedia and the NUJ on the battle between community
and corporate media world-wide, and why the news out of Venezuela is
the opposite of what's really happening. premier of global women strike
documentary on oil workers.
SATURDAY 14th
Proper propaganda
2pm to 1am
Project 142, Lea Bridge Rd, E5
Creative workshop with the European
Creative Forum. Banner-making, screen-printing T-shirts, posters
& stickers, software skill-sharing and more in preparation for Sunday's
picket.
Focus on the "Coca-Killer"campaign
with the International Caraban, who has just returned from Colombia,
where Coke hire right-wing death-squats to assesinate trade unionist.
Get your message across ethically
with No Sweat and Funky Gandy printing t-shirts on demand
Film Screening
Chill-out evening in social space.
SUNDAY 15th
Day of Referendum
1pm picket
starts from speakers'corner
2pm march to US embassy, Grosvenor
square
Worldwide US Embassy picket to
tell Washington to keep hands of venezuela!. In London, meet 1pm at
Speakers' Corner (as Venezuelans wake up to vote) then 2pm march to
Embassy in Grosvenor Sq.
6pm Exhibition closing party at
the RampART with planty of good food, music and information.
solidarityweek@yahoo.com
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