Venezuelan activists tour and film premiere Galway

galway | anti-capitalism | event notice Thursday October 05, 2006 11:54 by Global Women's Strike Ireland at allwomencount dot net 087 7838688

THE GLOBAL WOMEN’S STRIKE INVITES YOU TO

Meet two organisers from Venezuela on tour in Europe during October

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As Venezuela’s revolutionary movement seeks the re-election of President Hugo Chávez and a seat on the UN Security Council on behalf of non-aligned countries, US dollars flow in to try to get rid of Chávez. Two grassroots activists will tell us what is going on and why their president has become such a popular world leader.

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JUANITA ROMERO speaks for the Land Committee in Guaicaipuro, Miranda State, co-ordinating grassroots self-activity on housing, an urgent problem as the 70s oil boom pushed 80% of Venezuelans into the cities. She co-ordinates the Neighbourhood Mothers Mission through which women with least receive financial recognition for their caring work. She works with the Women´s Development Bank, to which Chávez recently awarded $50 million to help older women, women with disabilities, sex workers, teenage mothers and women in prison to form co-operatives and build a ´caring economy´.

GASTON MURAT has a long experience in the Socialist League and in the movement which led to the revolution. He is a founding member in Miranda State of the Fuerza Bolivariana de Trabajadores and of UNT (Unión Nacional de Trabajadores), formed to defeat the corrupt trade union leadership who were involved in the 2002 coup.

GALWAY
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Tuesday 10 October, 5.30pm

FILM PREMIERE of Journey with the Revolution

Co-hosted by Rod Stoneman
Producer of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
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the Women's Studies Centre

both National University of Ireland, Galway

**A lively journey with the midwives, housewives, gay and disability activists, nurses, doctors, teachers running the health clinics, soup kitchens, land committees, education programmes and Women’s Development Bank, which are transforming Venezuela. A Global Women’s Strike production **

Followed by discussion on WOMEN AND THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION led by Juanita Romero and Gastón Murat

VENUE: Huston Film School, NUI, Galway (opposite the Cathedral behind the Human Rights Centre). Fully wheelchair accessible.

Wednesday 11 October, 12-1pm

Winning Accountability From Professionals – The Land Committees in Venezuela
A class in the Department of Archaeology hosted by Maggie Ronayne

VENUE: AC215, Arts/Science Building, National University of Ireland, Galway
Fully wheelchair accessible

DUBLIN
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Wednesday 11 October, 7.30pm

FILM-SHOWING of Journey with the Revolution followed by a discussion led by Juanita Romero and Gastón Murat.

Hosted by the Students’ Union, University College Dublin

VENUE: Theatre R, John Henry Newman Building (Arts Block), University College Dublin
Steps to hall, please call beforehand if you need help with access

All events in Spanish/English with interpreter.

**For Ireland events contact the Global Women’s Strike in Ireland on 087 7838688 [email protected]
www.globalwomenstrike.net

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OTHER EVENTS WITH Juanita Romero and Gastón Murat

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LONDON

Two events at Bolívar Hall, Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
54 Grafton Way, London W1. Warren St Tube. Entrance by donation.

Spanish/English with interpreters. We regret the hall is not wheelchair accessible.

FILM PREMIERE: Journey with the revolution

Saturday 7 October, 2-6pm

Followed by WOMEN & THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION Discussion led by Juanita Romero and Gastón Murat. All Venezuela solidarity groups are invited to comment.

Thursday 12th October, 6-8pm Day of Indigenous Resistance

A comparison by Selma James:

Nyerere & Chávez –New passions & new forces

Like President Chávez, Julius Nyerere, the first president of an independent Tanzania, rejected capitalism and worked to develop a society based on co-operation and on bringing together the peoples of his continent, Africa. Selma James is the founder and co-ordinator of the Global Women’s Strike, and colleague and widow of CLR James, author of The Black Jacobins, a history of the Haitian revolution which Chávez often speaks about.

ITALY

Sunday 8 October, 2pm

Venice (Italy) at the Sixth Annual Bookfair for Peace

A FILM-SHOWING of Talking of Power

Sex, race and class in revolutionary Venezuela. From the hills of Caracas to the banks of the Orinoco, the grassroots tell us how they are changing our world. Followed by discussion led by Juaniuta Romero and Gastón Murat.

LONDON

Wednesday 18 October, 6pm

City Hall, Queen’s Walk (near Tower Bridge) London Bridge Tube Fully wheelchair accessible

A FILM-SHOWING of Journey with the Revolution

Followed by a RECEPTION hosted by David Morris, the Mayor’s Senior Policy Adviser (Disability Issues)

Contact [email protected]

OTHER EVENTS

Juanita Romero and Gastón Murat will also be speaking in Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Sheffield. Dates and venues to be confirmed; please contact us for details.

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The Global Women’s Strike has worked with the Venezuelan revolution since 2002, organising for Venezuelans to tour the US and Europe, producing documentaries, books and pamphlets, drafting parliamentary motions and speeches, reporting back from solidarity events in Venezuela and as international observers in the 2004 presidential referendum.

Publications (English & Spanish) include: Trade Unions, the US State Department and Venezuela (2003); Creating a Caring Economy: Nora Castañeda and the Women’s Development Bank of Venezuela (2006). Documentaries: Venezuela: A 21st century revolution (2003);
Enter the oil workers (2004); Talking of power (2005)

Please get in touch if you can help organise the tour and/or make a donation to help cover costs which include international flights.

For Britain, make cheques payable to Global Women’s Strike and send to Crossroads Women’s Centre, 230A Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2AB or contact [email protected]
For Ireland contact the Global Women’s Strike in Ireland on 087 7838688 or email [email protected]
www.globalwomenstrike.net