Panel Discussion on Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

George Ciccarriello Maher, Drexel University, author of We Created Chavez:  A Peoples History of the Venezuelan Revolution

 

Miguel Tinker Salas, Latin American Studies, History, and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies at Pomona College, author of Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know and The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela

 

Todd Griffin, organizer with Black Lives Matter (Los Angeles) and participant in 2014 Black and Brown solidarity delegation to Venezuela

 

Jeanette Charles, popular educator and graduate student at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela with the Catedra Libre Africa

 

This week, the Venezuelan people presented over 5 million signatures to the US government protesting against President Obama’s executive order that declares Venezuela a threat to national security.” According to the latest hinter laces Poll, 92% of all Venezuelans reject any form of US intervention and are organizing courageously to defend their sovereignty.

 

Over the last 15 years, Venezuelans have secured free education from preschool to undergraduate studies, free healthcare, and support for popular culture and media . Venezuela was declared free of illiteracy in 2005. The government has built more than 675,000 homes since 2010 and plans to build 400,000 more in 2015. In Venezuela , undocumented immigrants are guaranteed the same rights as citizens. Many Latin American countries are softening geopolitical borders.

 

Venezuela is also working to create a society free of discrimination with laws such as the Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free of Violence and the Law Against Racial Discrimination marking an antiracist and antipatriarchal shift in the country after 500 years of colonial repression and intervention.

 

FMI: chiapassuooortcommittee@gmail.com

 Sponsors: Scripps Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Intercollegiate  Department  of  Africana  Studies,  Scripps  Feminist,  Gender,  and  Sexuality  Studies, Intercollegiate  Feminist  Center for  Teaching,  Research and  Engagement

–Socorro Chavez

Venezuela

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