Despedida today – celebration of the contributions of day laborer and immigrant rights leader Jose Diaz at Pomona Day Labor Center – leaving to his home in Mexico – with many speaking today and lauding his years of organizing alongside day laborers, farmworkers, students, unions, multi-racial coalitions, and immigrant rights organizations.
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Masses of support in Caracas and throughout Venezuela, which the U S media does not cover, against the unjust invasion of Venezuela, the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro by the Trump administration, and in support of its international rights as a sovereign nation.
To Jose de Paz – what most analyses on the Venezuelan invasion tend to leave out (including the left) – is the conditions created by the U S after Chavez took power with sanctions and trade blockades that deeply affected the economy of Venezuela. Continue reading
The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, by U.S. special forces evokes the sad history of invasions, coups, and U.S. interventions in Latin America and around the world. Continue reading
Supporting the sending of a message this morning by a group of residents in San Dimas to hundreds of cars passing by that what the attacks are really all about in Venezuela is putting control of the oil there in the capital pockets of U S oil companies – pulling a coup with regime change – and an authoritarian Trump administration that does not care about violating international law and implementing an act of war against a sovereign nation without any congressional approval.
Another profound loss of an organizer and leader in our communities with the passing of brother Al Villanueva. As far back as when I started as a professor at Pitzer’s College in the 1990’s, I joined alongside Al (and so many others that included familia and supporters such as Angela and Jim Sanbrano) in his efforts to critically recover and preserve the history of the Arbol Verde barrio on the east side of Claremont. Continue reading