March 16 Global #HandsOffVenezuela Rallies
#LosPueblosConVenezuela En #Johannesburgo, #Sudáfrica, se plantaron frente a la embajada de #EEUU, en defensa de la soberanía de #Venezuela
La manifestación, convocada por varias organizaciones de izquierda, exigió #HandsOffVenezuela! pic.twitter.com/xdUl4ASKMR
— teleSUR TV (@teleSURtv) March 16, 2019
US imperialism is a crime! #HandsOffVenezuela pic.twitter.com/zQG8jtsBCM
— PSL Champaign-Urbana (@pslchampaign) March 16, 2019
Very clear message from Buenos Aires! #HandsOffVenezuela pic.twitter.com/c3TU7pOi8Z
— venezuelanalysis.com (@venanalysis) March 16, 2019
Today in D.C., thousands marched against U.S. imperialism in Venezuela and in support of Maduro & the Bolivarian Revolution
The people are chanting #HandsOffVenezuela @answercoalition @NicolasMaduro pic.twitter.com/k4oAdhW2nM
— #USOUTOFVENEZUELA (@uvastudentpower) March 16, 2019
Chavismo staying out on the streets. Another anti-imperialist rally held today in Caracas #HandsOffVenezuela pic.twitter.com/nadivEWZcs
— venezuelanalysis.com (@venanalysis) March 16, 2019
We fight for the liberation of New Afrikan & oppressed peoples. We fight our right to self-determination & sovereignty. We organize & struggle against US imperialism. #HandsOffVenezuela is a rallying cry to support the Bolivarian Revolution & oppose military intervention. pic.twitter.com/AvNOqaAfED
— MXGM (@MXGMNational) March 16, 2019
I appreciate the visit of our brothers from the World Peace Council, who came from the USA and Canada to bring us a message of solidarity and respect. Long Live Union and Love between the United States and Venezuela! #HandsOffVenezuela pic.twitter.com/Yq54EHIIZH
— Nicolás Maduro (@maduro_en) March 16, 2019
I'd like to express solidarity with the #HandsOffVenezuela movement and call out the war propaganda by ALL U.S. corporate media "news" outlets, including @MSNBC, @NYT, @ABC, @CBS, @NBC, @CNN, @FoxNews, et al. pic.twitter.com/5WYSKTRBf9
— Ray Pensador (@RayPensador) March 16, 2019
Check out what the U.S. peace delegation BAP participated in learned https://t.co/ZJZV6fggbU #HandsOffVenezuela pic.twitter.com/yYIXwdnxYm
— Black Alliance for Peace (@Blacks4Peace) March 16, 2019
@PopResistance Mar 15 ‘Members of our US Peace Delegation tried to leave #Venezuela today but @AmericanAir cancelled all flights in fear of attack. The only ones we are afraid of here in Caracas is the United States.’
@Greg_Palast ‘How Goldman Sachs is making bank in Venezuela’ https://youtu.be/H3QsBJkPORQ?t=28 … #HandsOffVenezuela
Comments
Thanks for the twitter updates
Sounds like some solid support. Love the picture of Maduro with the world council of peace. Good cartoon too. Did you hear the Russians interview Elliot Abrams pretending to be the president of switzerland. He is an evil bastard...
Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus talk to US Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams (as President of Switzerland Ueli Maurer) about invasion of the US in Venezuela and freezing of Maduro's accounts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWLBoinpJOw (23 min)
Not that surprising, but kinda fun knowing his leg is being pulled the whole time.
So glad to hear of the marches of support. Thanks for the news.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
i had seen it,
lol. a café denizen had sent it to me by email. silly twicksters... there are tweets out there w/ videoes on CNN of all places demonstrating which oppo figures had met just before the most recent attempt by drone assassination attempt on maduro, but given it was CNN *and* a video, i'd chosen to forgo it. #GrudgeHoldersAnonymous
again today, i've chosen not to bring the bad news afoot recently, but instead celebrate some of these beautiful solidarity actions.
The real news just posted this piece
showing the DC march (7 min)
https://therealnews.com/stories/no-war-for-oil-as-thousands-march-agains...
No transcript yet. Too bad cause there is some wind noise.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
thank you, but even
so, here's the video (we can turn the sound down, yes?):
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPWRKIS7L1s]
It was nice to see Ray Pensador's tweet
Is there any chance he can be enticed to post at C99%?
At any rate:
Veterans Call on US Troops to Resist Illegal Orders to Invade Venezuela
and
America's Puppet: Meet Juan Guaido
One means of organizing against this sort of thing is to bring together the military families, whose beloveds are currently in prep for a war against Venezuela. NB: make sure that those you're organizing are not communicating with devices being hacked by the NSA.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
i haven't any way of enticing
him; if you're on twitter, you might be able to. thanks for both links, i'd seen blumenthal and his friend's exposé explained at consortium news. fascinating, and max is trying very hard to become a different reporter than he was in the old days, and good on him.
you'll likely get a kick
out of this one, though, amigo:
p.s. i'd forgotten to say that you all should feel free to bring your own tweeties. ; )
He was here after...
The Edict and Migration. Posted for awhile, pops in every so often but haven't seen him around for some time now.
Ray Pensador
A friend of mine is in that delegation.
So proud to see Sarah traveling the world in pursuit of peace. Looking forward to hearing her first hand account of the trip.
ahhhh;
beautiful. maybe you'll bring us her report, wouldsman? hope they can catch a flight out as soon as the danger seems...less?
@wendy davis I will see what I can
Today there was a nice presentation by Sean Orr (sp?) a trade unionist at May Day Books. This is the local (Minneapolis) hang out for the peaceful people. He spoke to a group of over 30- maybe even 40.
One thing I am actually quite hopeful about:
I think Trump is so disastrously handling this coup attempt that it makes it just so clear how wrong it is. Public statements about VZ "oil being good for OUR economy" and the "bullet to the forehead" comment make it clear just how heinous regime change really is. Trump is doing an almost Onion like satire job of it. HRC would have done such a polished job of it and made it look almost reasonable. Trump is giving the Maduro admin so much material to show what a bully the U.S. is that it should really rally his people to stand together and stand strong. There really might be a silver lining in this cloud. I think this makes me an optimist...
is she close enough to
where you live that you might be able to do a short interview w/ her. or barring that, will you attend her talks and perhaps be able to take some notes? is your friend sarah the sara (no H) ajamu baracka had noted was in his tweeted photo (in their letter i unwound down yonder) or in the video w/ maduro? i'm assuming you and she may both live in minneapolis?
yes, HRC would have done it more smoothly, as would have obomba, who'd first applied sanctions along with declaring VZ's government a 'direct threat to US security', later all options are on the table', etc. i used to chuckle a bit that: yes, leftist nations have *always* been a threat to the US.
but i do agree that trump, guaido, abrams, and bolton may have overplayed their hands, and the future depends on how criminally the intend to proceed, despite claiming close to: 'waiting is'.
at the bottom, i'll provide the link to and paste in some of the text of this a.m.'s zeese and flowers' contribution to their newsletter. it's very long, loads of photos and links, etc.
Thank you, Wendy.
Glad to know this happened. The cartoon is excellent.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
it's a fine cartoon,
but i wish the guardian and other US puppet papers were in it. my guess is that if one were to check the #SOSvenezuela on twitter, we'd see which media were the same as those, or worse.
on edit: i just checked, and there are too may of that hashtag, most are in spanish.
i thought i'd unwind the
black alliance for peace's letter linked above, then add another tweet:
‘What a U.S. Peace Delegation Learned in Venezuela’, blackallianceforpeace.com, March 16, 2019
is the sara he's mentioned your friend (only she spells her name 'sarah', wouldsman?
thank you for contributing
and caring. tonight's closing song's gotta be from the playing for change cover of:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM]
cuz stand strong for VZ and nicolas maduro's government they did...and magnificently.
from the popular resistance
newsletter today: 'Venezuela: 'US Imperialism Is Based On Lies And Threats', Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers (some outtakes)
then sections on:
The US Embassy is Forced to Close
Guaido Is the Butt of Jokes In Venezuela, Not Legitimate Under the Constitution
Solidarity With Venezuela Is Essential
and again, for people like ro Khanna, the DSAs and 'progressive' signatories to their 'Dear Pompeo' letter, first criminalizing him, then calling his election 'illegal', etc.:
from telesur:
Maybe we can call it the --
"Grab their gas and kick their ass" coalition.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/18/the-reality-behind-trumps-venezu...
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
oooh, i admire
wiesbrot, one of the sanest, most brilliant detractors of the economic wars against maduro...for years! i look forward to reading it later. thank you.
Was there any coverage in mainstream media outlets of marches?
I did not really check. I am guessing near absolute coverage. I was following Max Blumenthal so knew about it that way. I am guessing not.
to say the truth,
i have no idea as i don't see or read much msm news. but i did see complaints on twitter that twitter was semi-censoring the tweets of large crowds as 'sensitive', i guess as in 'view at your own risk'.
maybe others will know, although i doubt many more folks will stop by.
on edit: just checked the hashtag, and here's what nicolás maduro has to say:
Thanks found the tweet marking march pics "sensitive"
https://twitter.com/ZombieDonnie/status/1107059333811064833
Twitter is marking completely normal crowd photos from @telesurenglish of the #HandsOffVenezuela march today in DC as sensitive content. This is absurd and demonizes Venezuela solidarity and political protest.
'Vanes'
is one of dem dudes (below your tweet):
@NevaCoblan
Mar 17
Replying to @ZombieDonnie @MaxBlumenthal @telesurenglish
"Dictator Maduro distributed weapons to his colectivos & “officials” & sent them to kill UNARMED civilians.Yesterday he gave an order on TV to do it,even though they have been doing it for years. Stop making up lies about Venezuela"
#AdorableGuaidoSupporter