Schäfer-Gümbel (SPD) unterstützte linksextremistische Kampagne

Der Spitzenkandidat der hessischen SPD für die Landtagswahl am 18. Januar 2009, Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, gehört nach Informationen der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung zu den Unterstützern der linksextremistischen Kampagne „Hands off Venezuela“.

Neben Schäfer-Gümbel haben auch die Linke-Politiker Lothar Bisky und Sahra Wagenknecht einen entsprechenden Aufruf der Bewegung unterschrieben (siehe Hands off Venezuela

Zitat

14. Dezember 2008

http://www.faz.net/s/RubDDBDABB9457A437BAA85A49C26FB23A0/Doc~E8F4E2327C8D94EE69F8DCA58BAD22998~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/signatures.htm

Germany

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Members of Parliament:

Lothar Bisky (PDS chairman, member of Brandenburg state parliament)
Sahra Wagenknecht (PDS Executive member) on behalf of Venezuela Avanza, German
solidarity campaign, www.venezuela-avanza.de
Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, SPD, MdL (member of state parliament in Hessen)
Petra Fuhrmann, SPD, FriedrichsdorfMdL (member of state parliament in Hessen)
Marco Pighetti, chairman of Wiesbaden SPD and member of the state parliament (Landtag) in Hessen

Komplette Liste :

http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/signatures.htm

Come and hear Jesus Pino from the Revolutionary Front of Steel Workers (SIDOR). He is speaking at the Hands Off Venezuela National Conference in London in less than two week’s time. He will speak about the struggle to nationalise the steel industry and the fight for workers’ control in Venezuela. The nationalisation of SIDOR earlier this year was a direct outcome of a militant struggle by the steel workers themselves. This shows the direction that the Venezuelan Revolution is taking and highlights the need to complete the tasks of expropriating the Oligarchy.

Other speakers include John McDonnell MP, Matt Wrack (FBU), Bob Crow (RMT), Jeremy Dear (NUJ), Alan Woods (author of ‘the Venezuelan Revolution’), Derek Wall (spokesperson for the Green Party), Samuel Moncada (the Venezuelan Ambassador), and others. There will also be workshops on Green Venezuela, Socialism of 21^st century, workers’ control, and solidarity with the Latin American Revolution.

The Conference will be held on 22 November in the Main Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Sq., London WC1 (nearest tubes: Goodge Street & Russell Square). Come and discuss solidarity with the Venezuelan Revolution! Everyone Welcome! To register contact us at <!–
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Immortal Technique comments on the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Socialism and other subjects. This interview was made by activists from the Hands of Venezuela campaign in Copenhagen, Denmark.

See also Immortal Technique

Source: Hands Off Venezuela Denmark

One week to go before the London book launch meeting for Alan Woods’ new book ‘Reformism Or Revolution’

Details are:

Wednesday 1st October, 7.00pm

Venue: Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL (nearest tubes Warren Street, Goodge Street)

Speakers:

• Alan Woods
• John McDonnell, MP
• Samuel Moncada, Venezuelan Ambassador

Admission is free but come early to ensure a place.

Copies of the book will be on sale at the meeting or you can get yours now – post free – at www.wellred.marxist.com

Filmscreening ‘The battle of Chile’, London

Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 6:45pm – 9:00pm

Hands off Venezuela SCREENING WILL BE FOLLOWED BY DEBATE WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

BOLIVAR HALL 54 & 58 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL

Nearest Underground (WARREN STREET TUBE) – 6:45 PM

Direction, production, script: Patricio Guzmán.
Director of photography and camera:
Editing: Pedro Chaskel.
Direct sound: Bernardo Menz.
Production company: Equip Tercer Año (Patricio Guzmán).
Shot on: 16 MM in black and white.
Final format: 35 MM (1.85), DVD and Beta Pal. Jorge Müller Silva.

“THE BATTLE OF CHILE I-II-III”
272 minutes (1972-1979)

“The Battle of Chile” is a historical documentary that in the seventies and eighties was distributed in 35 countries of the world. It is not a film made from archives; it is a document filmed as the events took place. Its author and director worked with a crew in the middle of the events. The virgin material (16 MM black and white film) was a contribution of the French documentary-maker Chris Marker and the editing was possible thanks to the collaboration of the Cuban Cinematography Institute (ICAIC). Jorge Müller Silva (the film’s cameraman) was kidnapped by Pinochet’s military police in November of 1974. His whereabouts are still unknown. He is one of the 3,000 that remain ‘disappeared’ in Chile today. “The Battle of Chile” has been subject to censorship in Chile and has never been emitted by public television.

SYNOPSIS OF THE FIRST PART (“The Insurrection of the Bourgeouisie”, 100′):

Salvador Allende begins a program of profound social and political transformations. From day one, the right organizes a series of wildcat strikes against him, while the White House asphyxiates him economically. In spite of the boycott – in March of 1973 – the parties in support of Allende win 43.4 percent of the vote. The right comes to understand that legal mechanisms will no longer work for them. From then on, their strategy will be the strategy of the military coup. “The Battle of Chile” is a fresco which shows, step by step, these acts that shook the world.

SYNOPSIS OF THE SECOND PART (“The Coup d’Etat”, 90′):

Between March and September of 1973, the left and right face off in the streets, in the factories, in the courts, in the universities, in parliament, and in the news media. The situation becomes unsustainable. The United States finances the truckers’ strike and foments social chaos. Allende tries to reach an agreement with the powers of the Christian Democracy, but fails. The contradictions within the left-wing increase the crisis. The military begins to conspire in Valparaiso. A wide sector of the middle class supports the boycott and civil war. On September 11, Pinochet bombs the governmental palace.

SYNOPSIS OF THE THIRD PART (“The Power of the People”, 82′):

On the sidelines of the large-scale occurrences that narrate the previous films, other original phenomena — sometimes ephemeral, incomplete — are also taking place and are picked up by the third part. Many sectors of the population and in particular the social layers in support of Allende organize and start up a series of collective actions: communitarian stores, industrial cordons, farmers’ committees, etc., with the intention of neutralizing the chaos and overcoming the crisis. These institutions, in the majority spontaneous, represent a ‘state’ inside the State.

The above was take from Patricio Guzman’s website

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”Freedom fighter” Mauricio Rojas var med och representerade Folkpartiet när den internationella höger samlades i Rosario, Argentina för att diskutera hur dem ska störta de valda vänsterregeringarna i regioner.

En samling höger politiker samlades förra helgen i den argentinska staden Rosario. Bland dem som deltar finns Jose Maria Aznar, Spanien; Vicente Fox, Mexiko, författaren och konvertit, Mario Vargas Llosas, Roger Noriega (USA: s ansvarig för Latin Amerika och suspekt förnekare att ha stött olika terrorister i regionen), Hernán Büchi, förre detta Pinochet minister, bland andra deltar också oppositionsledare från Venezuela (Marcel Granier, president de RCTV, mm), Bolivia (gamla kroatiska nazister som flydde dit efter ww2) samt Manfred Reyes, polischefen i provinsen Cochabamba, från Argentina militär diktaturen supporter och kolumnist, Claudio Escribano, tjuven och bedragare Mauricio Macri och den lokale gangster bossen Gerardo Bongiovanni. Huvudorganisatör är Freedom Foundation med medorganisatörer som de think tank Heritage Foundation ( som stöds av företag som Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Chemical Company, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, GlaxoSmithKline, Mobil, mm .) och Cato Institute ( Stöd av bl.a. Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil, mm).

Samlingen ”barrikaderade sig” i en anläggning med ett stort säkerhetspådrag för att diskutera den fortsatta strategin i regionen. På kvällen tågade ca 20 000 ungdomar mot anläggning för att protestera mot den ”förnäma” samlingen. Författare Mario Benedetti och en av organisatörer till en ”motmöte” dagen efter sade till Telesur TV att det inte kan accepteras att före detta kuppmakare, plundrare, tjuvar och andra representanter av en annan tid ska börja konspirera mot de demokratiska regeringarna under öppet och medvetet stöd från Washington. De förre detta kuppmakarna och fascister var inbjudna av organisationen Freedom Foundation (Fuandacion Libertad) som stöds öppen från Vita Huset, enligt deras ambassadör i Argentina, Earl Anthony Wayne, bekräftade i ruset efter en middag i Buenos Aires, 2006.

Det är ypperligt att dessa herrar samlas under samma tak och öppet visar sitt inneboende beroende och koppling. Nyliberala hycklare, ignorant folk eller godtrogna brukar annars förneka kopplingen mellan diktatorer, mördare, terrorister, bedragare, maffiabossar, nyliberala think tank, media jättar, gangstrar, polismakten, ” debattörer”, Vita huset och ”frihetens förkämpar”.

Men desperationen kräver desperata åtgärder eller hur var det nu?

Frågan är om folkpartiet ska skicka representanter dit, tillåta deras medlemmar delta i partiets namn eller tillåta personer med tvivelaktiga åsikter vara medlemmar i partiet och sitta i ett sådant vridigt sällskap av bedragare, kuppmakarna, mördare och terrorister. Vad säger folkpartiet om det?

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Caracas, March 31 ABN.- A called to the Heads of State of Latin America and the Caribbean to include the issue of Media terrorism in all the international meetings and forums made the members of the Latin American Meeting against Media Terrorism through the Caracas Declaration, which was issued this Monday at press conference.

Following, the complete text of the Caracas Declaration.

Journalists, broadcasters and specialists in communications in Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, met in Caracas for this First Latin American Meeting against Media Terrorism, denounce the use of falsehoods on behalf of the informative transnational companies as a mass and permanent aggression against the people and governments which fight for peace, justice and inclusion.

Media terrorism is the main expression and needed condition of military and economic terrorism used by the industrialized North to impose its imperial hegemony and neocolonial dominance over Humanity. Thus, it is against freedom, democracy and the open society, and it should be considered as the plague of the contemporary culture.

Regionally, media terrorism is used as political arm for the overthrowing of democratic governments of countries like Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Panama, Grenada, Haiti, Peru, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela; it is used today in order to commit sabotage against any humanitarian agreement or political solution to the Colombian conflict and to regionalize the war in the Andean area.

The current democratic struggle in Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua, joint to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico, confirms the political will of our societies to throw out the aggressive and simultaneous smear campaign of the transnational media corporations and the Inter American Press Association (IAPA). Cuba and Venezuela clearly represent the most vigorous milestones of this battle, yet unfinished. On the other hand, we are compelled to double our efforts before the dramatic situation that democratic journalism faces in Peru, Colombia and other nations.

This Latin American Meeting revealed the need of creating the International Platform against Media Terrorism, which calls for a new Meeting to be held on a term no longer to two months, to which will work jointly to other organizations as the Latin American Federation of Journalists (FELAP, for Spanish), which in the development of the conscience of the Latin American and Caribbean nations has exemplarily defended the right to the truth and the maxim upholding its principles: For a free journalism in free nations.

Determined in criminalizing all the forms of people struggle and resistance, under the guise of a fallacious idea of security, the fundamentalist administration of George W. Bush has been responsible for a systematic terrorist aggression during the recent years against alternative, people’s, communitarian and even some employer’s communication media.

Information is not merchandise. Just as health and education, information is a basic right of the people, and it should be subject of permanent public policies.

Convinced that this history began 200 years ago, we ratify the commitment of those who preceded us on it, in order to fit into an ethical practice of our profession, devoted to the values of real and effective democracy and to the truthfulness that the diversity of thought, beliefs and cultures deserve.

Not only the IAPA, but also gangs as Reporters Without Borders answer to the dictates from Washington on the falsification of reality and worldwide defamation. In this context, the European Union fulfills a shameful role which goes against the heroic struggle of its nations against nazi-fascism.

On the creation of the union of Latin American and Caribbean nations, the undersigning of this declaration call to teachers and students of communication to consider Media Terrorism as one of the major problems of the Humanity, we call for the free journalists to commit to double their efforts in the pursuit of peace, integral development and social justice.

In this spirit, we urge the Heads of States of Latin American and the Caribbean to include the issue of Media Terrorism in all international meetings and forums.

Translated by Felitza Nava

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On a cold and snowy day in Toronto, about 20 solidarity activists gathered to support the constitutional reforms in Venezuela and say no to CIA destabilization plans. Hands Off Venezuela designed signs highlighting the progressive reforms in the referendum to cut through the lies and distortions of Western media and the Venezuelan oligarchy. Opposition supporters showed their “democratic” credentials by shouting that nobody except them had a right to demonstrate, that Bolivarian activists are “terrorists” and that anybody supporting Chávez was an “idiot.” With attitudes such as these it is not surprising that that the mass of the Venezuelan people say No Volverán – they will not return!

Watch a video of the rally here:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7bRBipmtLsw