The Zapatista Solidarity Committee is supporting a
talk and a showing of the latest Hands Off Venezuela campaign film "No
Volveran".
Venue: Newtown Community Center, corner of Colombo
and Rintoul St.
Time: 5-8pm the Saturday the 6th of Dec.
Speaker: John Peterson National Secretary of US Hands of Venezeula Campaign and editor of Socialist Appeal (USA).
The Talk
The talk will be from 5 to 6pm, film showing from
6 to 7:30pm and will have time to answer questions and discuss afterwards.
There will be refreshments provided,
The Talk
The talk will be from 5 to 6pm, film showing from
6 to 7:30pm and will have time to answer questions and discuss afterwards.
There will be refreshments provided,
Entry by Koha
All proceeds to support Zapatista health care
provision in Chiapas, Mexico
Hope to see you all there!
All proceeds to support Zapatista health care
provision in Chiapas, Mexico
Hope to see you all there!
About John Peterson
John Peterson is one of the founders of the
Workers International League and Chief Editor of the Marxist journal Socialist
Appeal. He is an Americas correspondent for the popular "In Defence of Marxism"
website (www.marxist.com). In addition, he
is also the National Secretary for the U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Campaign. He is
active in the local and national anti-war, immigrant rights and Latin America
solidarity movements and has spoken on these and other subjects across the U.S.
as well as Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Britain, Italy, Belgium and
France.
About the Film
‘No Volverán – The Venezuelan Revolution Now’, an
exciting feature length documentary about the Venezuelan Revolution. In this
in-depth investigation the film makers take us on a journey through the fervor
of the Presidential Elections in December 2006, traveling deep into the shanty
towns (barrios), and to several factories under workers’ control, to find out
why there is a movement to over-through Capitalism, what Socialism of the
21st Century is, and how it is changing people’s lives. Community
activists show us around their neighborhoods in the barrios to see first hand
how difficult life is for the urban poor. Residents tell us how they used to
struggle daily against poverty, crime and police brutality. They felt abandoned
by previous governments, and when they tried to organise they were often
oppressed. But life here has clearly changed.
Following these workers and others, the film takes
us on a journey through the politics of past and present. Francisco Rivero,
National Director of Ideology of the Movement for Direct Democracy, takes us
through the different stages of the revolution, and explains that Socialism of
the 21st century is a complete break from many of the previous so-called
socialist ideologies. These were run from above by bureaucracies. Socialism of
the 21st century is democratic socialism, where political power is transferred
to the common people. Here ordinary working people must take over the running of
society.