INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY en la LUCHA

Sat Nov 3 4312 SE Stark, Multnomah Friends Meetinghouse.

5:30 Potluck, 6:00 Steve Ellner: The Hardship Imposed on the Venezuelan People by US-Canadian Sanctions. Talk, discussion with Steve Ellner - author of numerous books and professor at Universidad De Oriente in Venezuela from 1977 to 2003, is touring the US to give a presentation on the recent events in Venezuela and how people there are coping with hyper-inflation as well as food and medicine shortages. Brought by Campaign to End US-Canadian Sanctions Against Venezuela, Chicago ALBA Solidarity. Sponsored here by PCASC, Workers World, ILPS, Portland Jobs with Justice. Donations to cover costs, support campaign.

The Bolivarian Revolution, started by Hugo Chavez in 1999, and now led by President Nicolas Maduro, has been in the bulls-eye of attacks by the Venezuelan opposition, the US administration, and the European Union. The US and European sanctions have been an economic strangle hold that has caused the Venezuelan economy to crumble. Economic sanctions prevent the normal flow of payments for goods; causing shortages and hyper-inflation, as much as more than 1,000%. Venezuelans have resorted to migration to neighboring countries to look for a better life, this has created a shortage of human talent in Venezuela which affects infrastructure (water, electricity, gas). The main Venezuelan industry, oil, due to lack of talented resources, cut production in half.

Previous Events:Tue Oct 16 Celebrate International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and against Transnational corporations with Nicaraguan Rural Workers’ Association (ATC) of Nicaragua, leader, Fausto Torrez, and Erika Takeo of Friends of the ATC.

8-9 am Radio Movimiento, 95.9 FM, Woodburn, Oregon. Interview of Fausto Torrez by Ramon Ramirez on La Hora Campesina.11:20am-~12:30pm 121 SW Salmon outside Senator Merkley’s office Advocate for agroecology, our own sustainable, nutritious food system. Fausto Torrez speak?

6pm 4312 SE Stark, Multnomah Friends Meetinghouse. Join us for a Potluck & Talk with Fausto Torrez, part of the National Coordination of the ATC, about defending the rights of rural peoples and improving quality of life in the countryside. The ATC, founded in 1978, is a grassroots organization dedicated to defending the rights of rural peoples and improving the quality of life in the countryside. The ATC’s 50,000 farmworker and peasant families are organized into several hundred labor unions and farmer cooperatives. At a national level, the ATC participates in the Council on Social Economy (Consejo de Economia Social), and internationally, the ATC is a founding member of the international social movement La Via Campesina. Donations will be accepted for the Friends of the ATC. Sponsored by Portland Central Area Solidarity Committee, Workers World Party, International League for Peoples’ Struggle; for info, please contact PCASC coreteam@pcasc.net, 971-205-2254.

The Silencing of Dissent: How Freedom of the Press is Threatened in Honduras Join us to hear Jennifer Ávila share about the root causes of migration and other impacts of U.S. policy. Honduran journalist, artist, and documentary filmmaker, Jennifer is the Co-founder and Director of Contracorriente, a youth and women-led digital media platform, ran radio programs for Radio Progresso for 6 years. Brought by Witness for Peace NW.  Sponsored by IMIrJ (Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice), Enlace: organizing for racial and economic justice, Unite Oregon, American Friends Service Committee, Voz-Workers’ Rights Education Project, PCASC (Portland Central America Solidarity Committee), and Portland Jobs with Justice

Thu Oct 18, 12-1:30 PSU, URBN Rm 212, CLAS Migration Cluster & School of Social WorkThu Oct 18, 7 pm 820 NE 21st Ave, Central Lutheran Church, 1820 NE 21st AveFri Oct 19, 1-3:30 pm PCC Rock Creek, Bldg 5, rm 122, by Multicultural & DREAM CtrsFri Oct 19, 7 pm Las Naciones/United Methodist Church, Hillsboro 168 NE 8th Ave