Saturday, 23 February
1:00 pm
40 Wall St
New York, NY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/378910816226072/

No War on Venezuela!
March on Wall Street

Saturday, Feb 23
1:00pm
40 Wall Street (in front of the Trump building)

Join us Saturday, #23Feb at the Trump building on Wall Street to defend Venezuela! We’ll march on Wall Street to expose the force behind the coup in Venezuela: the U.S. ruling class!

Over 120 organizations and 2000 individuals have signed on to build Globally Coordinated Actions on Saturday #23Feb in defense of Venezuela against U.S. imperialist aggression and the coup of U.S. puppet Juan Guaidó.

See the call at NoWarOnVenezuela.org to add your name or organization as an endorser.

The call has now been translated in 16 languages!

#23Feb actions have been called across the country and across the globe, and more continued to be called. Full list here: nowaronvenezuela.org/23feb
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No a la guerra de EE.UU. contra Venezuela!
Protesta en Wall Street

Sábado 23 de febrero
1:00
40 Wall Street (frente al edificio Trump)

¡Únase con nosotros el sábado 23 de febrero en el edificio Trump en Wall Street para defender a Venezuela! Marcharemos hacia Wall Street para exponer el poder detrás del golpe de estado en Venezuela: ¡la clase dominante de los Estados Unidos!

Más de 120 organizaciones y 2000 individuos se han unido para preparar acciones coordinadas internacionales el sábado 23 de febrero en defensa de Venezuela contra la agresión imperialista de los EE. UU. y el golpe de estado de la marioneta de los EE. UU. Juan Guaidó.

Consulte la llamada a acción en nowaronvenezuela.org para agregar su nombre u organización como patrocinador.
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Endorsing Organizations (Partial list in formation):

International Action Center ? Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle New York ? Alliance for Global Justice ? ANTICONQUISTA ? BAYAN USA ? Black Alliance for Peace ? December 12th Movement ? Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere (FIRE) ? Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) ? Haïti Liberté ? IFCO/Pastors for Peace ? La Peña del Bronx ? Mobilization Against War and Occupation – MAWO (Canada) ? MOVE Organization ? People’s Organization for Progress (POP) ? Popular Resistance ? The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign ? Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network ? United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) ? USW Local 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers Union ? U.S. Peace Council ? Veterans For Peace

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) • American Party of Labor • ANSWER • Anti-Racist Action-L.A. • Anti-War Committee • Baltimore Peace Action • BOROTBA • Black Men’s Movement • Black Workers for Justice • Boston May Day Coalition • Brainerd Area Coalition for Peace (BACP) • Calgary Anti-Racist Action • Canadian Peace Council • Canadian Voice of Women for Peace • Casa de Las Américas NY • Central America Solidarity Coalition of Racine and Kenosha • Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War • Charlotte Revolutionary Collective • Chicago ALBA Solidarity • Chicago Committee Against Militarism • Coalición Fortaleza Latina Pennsylvania • Coalition for Justice • Collettivo La Classe (Italy) • Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism • Communist Party of the DPR • Communiste Reconstruction Canada (Quebec) • Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) • Dare to Dream • Ecumenical Peace Institute • Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice – Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (Canada) • Frente Antiimperialista Internacionalista (Madrid) • Fronte Popolare (Italy) • Galway Alliance Against War • Greater Boston Chapter of the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts • Hilton Head for Peace • Houston Friends of Venezuela • International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity • International Association Against Torture • International Support Haiti Network • La Città Futura (Italian communist newspaper) • Labor Community Alliance of South Florida • Labor Fightback Network • Labor Today/Labor United for Class Struggle • Legacy of Equality, Leadership, and Organizing (LELO) • Malu Arts Project, Inc. • Maryland-Cuba Friendship Coalition • Millennials Are Killing Capitalism • Ministry of Peace (UK) • Minnesota Peace Action Coalition • Monterey Peace and Justice Center • Movimiento Comunitario Alfa y Omega • National Jericho Movement • New Abolitionist Movement • New Jersey Peace Council • New York Boricua Resistance • New York-New Jersey July 26 Coalition • Nicaragua Center for Community Action • Nuevo Perú • No War Roma – Lista No NATO (Italy) • North American Climate, Conservation and Environment • NYC Shut It Down • Ohana Ho`opakele • Pakistan USA Freedom Forum • Palestine Prisoners Society • Peace Action of San Mateo County • Peace Action of Staten Island • Peoples Power Assemblies NYC • CPhilly-Camden Boricua Committee • Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign • Popular Front (France) • Potere al Popolo (Italy) • Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC) • POWIR • Public Awareness Education Programs – Sciences and Humanities • Puerto Rican Independence Party • Punks for Progress • Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice • Refuge Ministries of Tampa Bay International • Right 2 Survive • SI Solidarity Iran • Socialist Labour Party (UK) • Socialist Action • Socialist Party of Bangladesh • Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) • St. Paul Yoga Center • St. Pete for Peace • Swedish Professors & Doctors for Human Rights (SWEDHR)• Tempi Post Moderni (Italy) • Tlaxcala Network • TLtC The Least of These Church – Justice & Peace Committee • Union County (NJ) Peace Council • U.S. Friends of the Soviet People • U.S. Women and Cuba Collaboration • Unione Sindacale di Base (Italy) • Tufts Labor Coalition • United for Justice – Iran • URSAL – União das Republicas Socialistas da América Latina • Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba – VCSC (Canada) • Venezuela Ireland Network • Veterans For Peace – Chapter 71 • Veterans For Peace – Chapter 021 (Northern New Jersey) • Victoria Friends of Cuba • Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice, & Equality • Women In Time Change History • Women Against Military Madness • Workers World Party • Yes for Cuba Solidarity New York • Youth Fighting US Empire

Partial List of Individual signers:

Susan Abulhawa, author

Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Alexey Albu, BOROTBA, Lugansk, Lugansk People’s Republic

Bahman Azad, U.S. Peace Council

Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer – Black Alliance for Peace

Fr. Luis Barrios, Holyrood Church/Iglesia Santa Cruz, NYC

Mike Bento, NYC Shut It Down

Max Blumenthal, journalist

Alison Bodine, Mobilization Against War and Occupation-MAWO (Canada)

William Camacaro, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle New York

Joe Catron, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Edward Childs, UNITE-HERE Local 26

George Ciccariello-Maher, The Hemispheric Institute

Dan Cohen, Journalist

Gerry Condon, President, Board of Directors, Veterans For Peace

Jodi Dean, Professor

Miguel Figueroa, Canadian Peace Congress, Toronto, ON, Canada

Taryn Fivek, International Action Center

Sara Flounders, International Action Center

Margaret Flowers, Coordinator of Popular Resistance

Ramiro Funez, ANTICONQUISTA, Los Angeles CA

George Galloway, British Politician; Stop the War Coalition (UK)

Teresa Gutierrez, Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere (FIRE)

Lawrence Hamm, Chair of Peoples Organization for Progress (POP)

Chris Hedges, Writer

Rémy Herrera, Writer, Paris

Foad Izadi, Assistant professor, Department of American Studies, University of Tehran

Chuck Kaufman, Alliance for Global Justice

Rev. Tong-Kyun Kim, The Least of These Church (Progressive Korean Church)

Margaret Kimberley, Senior Editor – Black Agenda Report; Black Alliance for Peace

Stevan Kirschbaum, Vice President, United Steelworkers, Local 8751, Boston School Bus Union

Daniel Kovalik, Journalist

Judith Cashin Lerma, RNC MSN CCM with National Nurses United/National Nurses Organizing Committee

Dakotah Lilly, Co-founder, Students and Youth for a New America

Joe Lombardo, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)

Alfred L. Marder, President, US Peace Council; Vice President, World Peace Council

Cynthia McKinney, Former U.S. congressperson and Green Party presidential candidate

Monica Moorehead, Workers World Party 2016 presidential candidate

Ben Norton, Journalist

Miko Peled, Author

Minnie Bruce Pratt, UAW/National Writers Union Local 1981

Sami Ramadani, Stop the War Coalition (UK)

Cindy Sheehan, Executive Boardmember, March on the Pentagon

Roger Waters, Musician

John Wight, Journalist

Kevin Zeese, Coordinator ofPopular Resistance, Baltimore
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We cannot be silent in the face of the latest U.S. aggression against the Venezuelan people. Nicolás Maduro is the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, chosen twice by the people as part of an internationally observed electoral process. Since the 1998 election of Hugo Chávez, the United States has been relentless in its pursuit of regime change in Venezuela. With Donald Trump in the White House, these efforts have escalated to threats of all-out military violence, the plundering of billions of dollars in wealth from the Venezuelan people and pushing a multitude of outrageous lies in the global media.

For hundreds of years, the U.S. has waged war against the people of the world through coups, invasions and economic warfare. Juan Guaidó is a U.S. puppet. He is not a representative of the Venezuelan masses. The idea that a person can swear themselves in as president at a rally in the interest of “defending democracy” is laughable. The right wing in Venezuela claim the Bolivarian elections are rigged because they refuse to participate in them. Instead they engage in voter intimidation using violence reminiscent of Jim Crow terrorism against African-Americans in the Deep U.S. South.

U.S.-led sanctions and currency manipulation are responsible for the suffering in Venezuela. Marco Rubio and right-wing media guide the Venezuelan opposition from Miami. The U.S. cannot stand for any country on the planet to enjoy its natural wealth or the fruits of its labor independent of Wall Street and the Pentagon. Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world and is rich in gold and other mineral wealth. Iraq war architect John Bolton said that regime change in Venezuela would be a tremendous opportunity to gain more profits for Wall Street. We believe him.

Since the Bolivarian Revolution in 1998, massive strides have been taken to uplift the working class, Afro-Venezuelans and Indigenous populations in Venezuela. The working poor have made tremendous gains because the government implemented policies and passed laws to fight racism, sexism, homophobia and economic inequality. Despite sanctions and sabotage, Venezuela has maintained a transparent and democratic system through many elections. Venezuela provides aid to struggling people worldwide through subsidized fuel and by leading the way with progressive labor laws. Their gains are part of the global struggle waged by workers and the oppressed against the wealthiest and most powerful capitalists on the planet.

Therefore, we demand:

The U.S. immediately cease all hostile actions against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela — lift all sanctions, stop backing a coup, cease efforts to destroy the Venezuelan economy and respect the right of the Venezuelan people to self-determination. All countries involved in the plunder of Venezuelan wealth immediately return what they have stolen to the democratically elected government of Venezuela and its people.Wall Street must immediately pay reparations to the Venezuelan people for their suffering under genocidal sanctions and currency manipulation.

In the internationalist and liberatory spirit of Simón Bolívar, we pledge to mobilize and fight on the side of Venezuela’s right to sovereignty, understanding that the gains won under the Bolivarian Revolution are gains for all the world’s workers and oppressed.

Sign on to the statement and get involved to demand: U.S. hands off Venezuela!
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¡No a la guerra de EE.UU. contra Venezuela!

No podemos permanecer calladas/os ante la última agresión de Estados Unidos contra el pueblo venezolano.
Nicolás Maduro es el presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, elegido dos veces por el pueblo como parte de un proceso electoral observado internacionalmente. Desde la elección de Hugo Chávez en 1998, Estados Unidos ha sido implacable en su afán de cambiar el régimen en Venezuela. Con Donald Trump en la Casa Blanca, estos esfuerzos se han intensificado con amenazas de violencia militar a gran escala, el saqueo de miles de millones de dólares en riqueza del pueblo venezolano e impulsando múltiples mentiras escandalosas en los medios globales de comunicación.

Durante cientos de años, los Estados Unidos han librado una guerra contra los pueblos del mundo a través de golpes de estado, invasiones y guerras económicas. Juan Guaidó es un títere de los Estados Unidos. No representa las masas venezolanas. La idea de que una persona puede auto juramentarse como presidente en un mitin en interés de “defender la democracia”, es risible. La derecha en Venezuela afirma que las elecciones bolivarianas están amañadas porque se niegan a participar en ellas. En su lugar, se dedican a la intimidación de votantes mediante el empleo de la violencia con reminiscencias del terrorismo Jim Crow contra las/os afroamericanos en el sur profundo de los Estados Unidos

La manipulación de la moneda y las sanciones lideradas por los Estados Unidos son las responsables del sufrimiento en Venezuela. Marco Rubio y los medios de comunicación de la derecha guían a la oposición venezolana desde Miami. Estados Unidos no puede tolerar que ningún país del planeta pueda disfrutar de su riqueza natural o del fruto de su esfuerzo laboral independiente de Wall Street y el Pentágono. Está comprobado que Venezuela tiene las reservas de petróleo más grandes del mundo y es rica en oro y otros minerales valiosos. El arquitecto de la guerra de Irak, John Bolton, dijo que el cambio de régimen en Venezuela sería una gran oportunidad para obtener más ganancias para Wall Street. Y sabemos que es cierto.

Desde la Revolución Bolivariana en 1998, se han dado pasos agigantados para elevar la clase trabajadora, las/os afrovenezolanos y las poblaciones indígenas en Venezuela. Los trabajadores pobres han logrado enormes avances porque el gobierno implementó políticas y promulgó leyes para combatir el racismo, el sexismo, la homofobia y la desigualdad económica. A pesar de las sanciones y el sabotaje, Venezuela ha mantenido un sistema transparente y democrático a través de muchas elecciones. Venezuela brinda ayuda a personas con dificultades en todo el mundo a través de combustible subsidiado y liderando el camino con leyes laborales progresistas. Sus logros son parte de la lucha global emprendida por los trabajadores y los oprimidos contra los capitalistas más ricos y poderosos del planeta.

Por lo tanto, exigimos que:

Estados Unidos cese de inmediato todas las acciones hostiles contra la República Bolivariana de Venezuela: levante todas las sanciones, deje de respaldar un golpe de estado, cese los esfuerzos para destruir la economía venezolana y respete el derecho del pueblo venezolano a la libre determinación.
Todos los países involucrados en el saqueo de la riqueza venezolana devuelvan inmediatamente lo que han robado al gobierno elegido democráticamente de Venezuela y a su pueblo.
Wall Street pague reparaciones inmediatamente al pueblo venezolano por su sufrimiento bajo las sanciones genocidas y la manipulación de la moneda.
En el espíritu internacionalista y liberador de Simón Bolívar, nos comprometemos a movilizarnos y luchar por el derecho a la soberanía de Venezuela, entendiendo que los logros y beneficios obtenidos durante la Revolución Bolivariana son ganancias para todas/os los trabajadores y oprimidos del mundo.

Sunday, 17 February
3:00 pm
Het Wereldhuis
Nieuwbeekstraat 35
Aalst, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/341107900078001/

On 19 July, Mustapha Awad (who lives in Aalst) was arrested by Israel during a visit to Palestine. He was sentenced to 1 year in prison. There are serious reasons to fear that during his imprisonment he will be subjected to cruel and degrading treatment.

Bring light to Mustapha’s heart. Write him a letter! Your cards and letters will of course go through the Israeli censorship, but know that they are of great importance to Mustapha!

Op 19 juli werd Mustapha Awad (wonende te Aalst) tijdens een bezoek aan Palestina gearresteerd door Israël. Hij werd veroordeeld tot een gevangenisstraf van 1 jaar. Er zijn ernstige redenen om te vrezen dat hij tijdens zijn gevangenschap wordt onderworpen aan een wrede en mensonterende behandeling.

Steek Mustapha een hart onder de riem. Schrijf hem een brief! Jouw kaarten en brieven zullen natuurlijk door de Israëlische censuur gaan, maar weet dat ze voor Mustapha van grote betekenis zijn!

Saturday, 9 February
4:45 pm
Malmo Arena
Hyllie Stationstorg 2
Malmo, Sweden
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/250967342495575/

Join our demonstration against the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) on 14-18 May 2019 being held in the apartheid state of Israel!

In Malmo, the Swedish Melodifestivalen contest is held in Malmo Arena on 9 February at 19h30, with admission from around 18h155. We will stand outside the entrance with the banner “End the occupation of Palestine” and placards with the text “Melodifestival – yes, Apartheid – no; Move the Eurovision final; Solidarity with Palestine!” hand out flyers, give speeches and sing songs against apartheid.

Anna Wester, chair of the Palestinagrupperna i Sverige, writes:

“The initiative to boycott Eurovision in Israel was taken by a number of Palestinian organizations, and hundreds of artists around the world have endorsed the call. Thousands of activists have signed on to the call for boycott, and the international campaign is growing every day. Everyone who upholds democracy and human rights should support the Palestinian people in this. By pressuring the occupying power and standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we can contribute to a just peace. If the finals are moved from Israel, we look forward to seeing Sweden in the list, but no Swedish participation so long ass Israel is hosting!”

It is important that there are many participants in the demonstration if we are to be seen and heard by many concertgoers. Join us 9 February for Palestinian rights! Invite friends and acquaintances to participate in the protest and join our anti-apartheid song chorus.

We wll gather at the entrance to Hyllie train station towards Malmo Arena at 16h45.

Yes to Melodifestival in Sweden!
No to Eurovision Final in Israel!
No Swedish participation as long as Israel is hosting!

Välkommen till vår manifestation mot att finalen i Europeiska schlagerfestivalen (ESC) den 14–18 maj 2019 ska hållas i apartheidstaten Israel!

I Malmö hålls en deltävling i den svenska Melodifestivalen i Malmö Arena den 9 februari kl 19.30, med insläpp från kl. 18.15. Vi kommer att stå utanför entrén med banderollen “Häv ockupationen av Palestina” och plakat med texten “Melodifestival – ja, Apartheid – nej, Flytta Eurovisionsfinalen, Solidaritet med Palestina!”, dela ut flygblad, hålla tal och sjunga Sånger mot Apartheid.

Anna Wester, ordförande för Palestinagrupperna i Sverige, skriver:

“Initiativet att bojkotta Eurovision i Israel togs av en rad palestinska organisationer och hundratals artister fra°n hela va¨rlden har sta¨llt sig bakom uppmaningen. Tusentals aktivister har undertecknat uppropet om en bojkott och den internationella kampanjen va¨xer fo¨r varje dag. Alla som va¨rnar demokrati och ma¨nskliga ra¨ttigheter bo¨r sto¨dja palestinierna i detta. Genom press pa° ockupationsmakten och solidaritet med det palestinska folket kan vi bidra till en ra¨ttvis fred.

Om finalen flyttas fra°n Israel, sa° ser vi fram emot att se Sverige i startlistan. Men inget svenskt deltagande sa° la¨nge Israel a¨r va¨rd!”

Det är viktigt att vi blir många deltagare i manifestationen om vi ska höras och synas bland de många konsertbesökarna!
Ställ upp den 9 februari för fred och för palestiniernas mänskliga rättigheter!

Uppmana vänner och bekanta att delta i manifestationen och att sjunga med i vår schlagerfestivalsångkör!

Vi samlas vid uppgången från Hyllie tågstation mot Malmö Arena (se bifogad bild) kl 16.45.

JA TILL MELODIFESTIVAL I SVERIGE!
NEJ TILL EUROVISIONSFINAL I ISRAEL!
INGET SVENSKT DELTAGANDE SÅ LÄNGE ISRAEL ÄR VÄRD!

Arr: Palestinagruppen i Malmö

Saturday, 9 February
1:00 pm
10 Downing Street
London, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/355607885233257/

Join the London Protest for the release of the Craigavon 2. Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton were wrongly convicted of the killing of PC Carroll and have spent nearly 10 years in jail.

Sign the petition https://www.change.org/p/ccrc-the-craigavon-2-deserve-justice-now
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JFTC2

Another British frame-up
On March 9th 2009 Constable Steven Carroll was fatally shot in Craigavon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland . On the 30th of March 2012 Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton were convicted of the shooting and sentenced to life in prison.

At the trial no evidence of Brendan McConville or John-Paul Wootton’s direct involvement in the shooting was ever presented. It wasn’t presented because it doesn’t exist.

Instead the conviction was based on:

1.) The testimony of a witness who testified that on the heavily raining night of the shooting he saw McConville dressed in a green army jacket in the neighborhood of the shooting around the time of the shooting.

2.) DNA evidence from a jacket retrieved from Wootton’s car after the shooting that an expert testified had McConville’s DNA on it and traces of what possibly could be gunpowder.

3.) A GPS tracking device that had been placed in Wootton’s car sometime prior to the shooting which showed the car leaving a housing estate adjacent to the one where the shooting occurred ten minutes after the shooting & passing near McConville’s home on its way back to Wootton’s. The prosecution used this information to surmise that McConville was dropped off by Wootton before he made his own way home.

The problems with the conviction are as follows:

1.) The prosecution’s star witness, Witness M, gave the only testimony that placed either of the two men near the scene of the shooting. He testified that, on that very dark and rainy night, he saw McConville, from a distance of about 16 yards by an electricity box wearing a green knee length army coat with a German logo. The witness, however, was shown to be astigmatic & short shorted – conditions which would have made him unable to see what he said he saw.

In addition, his partner who was walking with him that night refused to corroborate his story.

Furthermore, he waited 11 months to come forward (by which time McConville’s name had been widely spread by the press), was shown to have repeatedly lied under oath and had contacted the police on a number of occasions while drunk or drinking, including the night of his original call. Also large extracts of his witness statement to the police were redacted.
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All of this is further compromised by the fact that the witness receives a weekly income from the PSNI and also receives an allowance for childcare. He has had loans and overseas holidays facilitated for his children and has received other financial benefits.

2.) When the AK47 that was used in the shooting was discovered, a partial fingerprint was found on the internal spring mechanism of the magazine. This fingerprint was checked against the fingerprints of McConville and Wootton. No matches were found. Also, according to the tracking device Wootton’s car never went near the housing estate where the rifle was found.

3.) The prosecution claimed a jacket found in Wootton’s car with McConville’s DNA & traces of what might be gunpowder, were further proof of the men’s involvement in the shooting. The jacket, however, was brown leather & waist length, not the green knee length army jacked with a German logo the witness had claimed to see. In addition, the jacket was completely dry, not very wet as it would have been if McConville had been wearing it during the shooting. In addition, when police searched both men’s homes they found no traces of the wet and/or muddy clothes they were specifically looking for.

4.) The only “evidence” tying John Paul Wootton to the killing is his car & the GPS tracking device that was placed on it sometime prior to the shooting. The tracking device showed Wootton’s car leaving a housing estate a quarter of a kilometer from the estate where the shooting took place about 10 minutes after the shooting occurred. It proceeded at a normal pace along one of the two available routes leading from where he was to his home. (Both routes pass close to McConville’s house.) According to the prosecution Wootton dropped off McConville and went home. However, at no time did the tracking device show the car’s doors being opened anywhere near McConville’s home. Even more worrying, data from the tracking device was mysteriously wiped while the device was in the hands of the army. No plausible explanation was ever given as to why this happened.


There is more. The fact that the men were denied the benefit of a trial by jury. Admitted deficiencies in witness testimony, state interference with new witnesses who were scheduled to testify at the appeal, etc.

Saturday, 9 February
12:00 pm
Vancouver Art Gallery
1100 W. Georgia
Vancouver, BC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/304238770450488/

”The Venezuela Peace and Solidarity Committee of Vancouver”

Coalition integrated by solidarity organizations from Vancouver and supporters calls on the Canadian and Latin American people to rally for peace and democracy in Bolivarian Venezuela.

!! Hands off Venezuela are the message of the people’s voice !!

The Bolivarian people want peace, no intervention of any kind the savagery that the imperialist powers have imposed as a steel ring to suffocate the Bolivarian revolution is a crime against humanity.
“Everyone must come to the demonstration to fight for peace.”

Friday, 8 February
5:30 pm
BBC Broadcasting House
Portland Place
London, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/553956091749385/

Friday, 8 February
4:00 pm
Dock10
BBC Studios, MediaCityUK
Manchester, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/818713415163258/

On Friday 8 February the BBC will be broadcasting “Eurovision: You Decide”, a show to select the UK entrant.

And we’ll be gathering for a party protest to say: NO to culture-washing, NO to pink-washing, NO to Eurovision being hosted in Apartheid Israel!

Come through! Bring flags, placards and energy for singing along to Palestine solidarity versions of Eurovision and pop classics!

For more information on the global Boycott Eurovision campaign: https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-eurovision-2019

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Love Eurovision, Hate Apartheid! Protest at the BBC

Join the protest at the Eurovision: You Decide event, taking place from 4pm on Friday 8th February at MediaCityUK, the BBC Headquarters in Salford Quays, calling on the BBC to withdraw from the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest hosted by Apartheid Israel. The demonstration will begin when the audience of the show arrives soon after 4pm and we invite you to join us for Palestinian music and a rally with Palestinian cultural figures that will run until 7pm, so people can come and participate after work.

The public will be choosing who goes through to the final in a live TV show, Eurovision: You Decide. We will urge contestants, hosts and BBC workers to heed Palestinian civil society’s call for the boycott of Eurovision hosted by Israel’s apartheid regime, which continues to massacre Palestinian protesters in besieged Gaza and imprison the Palestinian population under a decades-long illegal military occupation.

We are urging all participants follow the example of British group The Tuts, who courageously announced they had refused an invitation to enter the UK’s Eurovision contest. https://twitter.com/TheTutsBand/status/1088465070714167296 We are appealing to all the singers and songwriters to boycott the contest hosted by Israel, just as they would have boycotted the South African apartheid regime.

We are also calling for an end to the BBC’s complicity in “Brand Israel”, the Israeli government’s official policy of artwashing its crimes against the Palestinian people. Israel regularly uses culture to cover up, justify and distract from its oppressive regime of military occupation and apartheid against the Palestinian people.

Just days after Israel’s Eurovision win, Israeli forces massacred 62 Palestinians in Gaza, including six children, as they demonstrated for freedom and refugee rights. Since the Great Return March protests began on March 30th 2018, at least 205 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the besieged Gaza Strip. More than 18,000 others have been injured, including thousands shot with live sniper fire.

Join the protest and take a stand against BBC artwashing apartheid.

Hosted by
Manchester Palestine Action
Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign
University of Manchester BDS Campaign
Liverpool Friends of Palestine
Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine
Birmingham Palestine Action
London Palestine Action
Glasgow Palestine Action

Other Northern groups to be added

#BoycottEurovision2019

How to get there: Manchester’s tram network stops at MediaCityUK (zone 2). It takes 15 minutes from Manchester Piccadilly or ten minutes from Eccles Station.

BBC Studios, Media City UK at Dock 10
Salford M50 2NT

4pm-7pm
Friday 8th February

Friday, 8 February
4:00 pm
Pariser Platz
Berlin, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/319849291972472/

Given the alarming situation Venezuela is currently facing, we call for an immediate halt to the intervention of the US and the European Union, whether through military threats, political support for the latest coupe by Juan Guaidó, or economic sanctions.

As Latinxs, we know of the catastrophic and tragic legacy of imperialist interference in the countries of our continent, with Chile (1973), El Salvador (1979) and Honduras (2009) as just a few examples of the systematic crimes against humanity.

We condemn the external interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela, which fuels violent confrontation and promotes dangerous escalation and regional destabilization. The blatant anti-democratic cooperation of the Governments of the “Lima Group” are not based on the sincere desire to help the Venezuelan people, but On Their subordination to the hegemonic geopolitical interests and the surge of the new right on our continent.

We demand a political solution through the dialogue between the Venezuelan people and their legitimate political institutions, without interference, without sanctions and without media manipulation, in order to make the right of self-determination of the peoples, to define the strategies of their economic and social recovery under the condition of the welfare of the social collective.

We invite everyone to protest with us at Pariser Platz, both against the undemocratic and imperialist meddling of the German Government and for the self-determination of the peoples of our continent and the Global South.

Hands off Venezuela!

A la luz de la alarmante coyuntura actual que enfrenta Venezuela, hacemos un llamado a que pare la agravante injerencia de fuerzas externas de parte de los Estados Unidos y La Unión Europea en la actual crisis política y económica que atraviesa el país.
Como latinoamericanos, conocemos la herencia nefasta y trágica dejada por la injerencia en los países de nuestro continente, con Chile (1973), El Salvador (1979) y Honduras (2009) como ejemplos paradigmáticos de violación sistemática de los derechos humanos.
Condenamos la injerencia extranjera en los asuntos internos venezolanos que impulsan la confrontación violenta, promueven una escalada peligrosa y una desestabilización regional. Ante el flagrante colaboracionismo antidemocrático de los gobiernos del autodenominado “Grupo de Lima”, denunciamos que su accionar no obedece a un afán sincero de apoyo al pueblo venezolano, sino a su subordinación a los intereses geopolíticos hegemónicos en el marco del actual giro a la derecha que vive nuestro continente.
Nos pronunciamos a favor de una solución política dialogada convocada por el pueblo venezolano y sus instituciones legítimas, sin intervenciones, sin sanciones ni manipulación mediática, respetando el derecho de los pueblos a definir soberanamente sus estrategias de recuperación económica y social bajo premisas de bienestar social colectivo.
Los invitamos a encontrarnos en Pariser Platz, para rechazar la postura de Alemania frente a esta crisis y hacer un llamado enérgico por el respeto a la autodeterminación de los pueblos de nuestro continente.

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Angesichts der alarmierenden Situation, in der sich Venezuela aktuell befindet, fordern wir den sofortigen Stopp der Intervention der USA und der Europäischen Union, ob durch militärische Drohungen, politische Unterstützung des Putschisten Guaidó oder ökonomische Sanktionen.

Als Lateinamerikaner*innen wissen wir um das katastrophale und tragische Erbe der imperialistischen Einmischung in den Ländern unseres Kontinents, mit Chile (1973), El Salvador (1979) und Honduras (2009) nur als ein paar Beispiele für die systematischen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit. Wir verurteilen die Einmischung von außen in die inneren Angelegenheiten Venezuelas, die eine gewaltvolle Konfrontation schürt und eine gefährliche Eskalation und regionale Destabilisierung fördert. Die offensichtlich antidemokratische Zusammenarbeit der Regierungen der „Lima Gruppe“ zur weiteren Destabilisierung Venezuelas, fußen nicht auf dem aufrichtigen Wunsch zur Unterstützung des venezolanischen Volkes, sondern auf ihrer Unterordnung unter die hegemonialen geopolitischen Interessen im Rahmen des gegenwärtigen Rechtsrucks, der auch unseren Kontinent ergriffen hat.

Wir sprechen uns aus für eine politische Lösung durch den Dialog zwischen dem venezolanischen Volk und seinen legitimen politischen Institutionen, ohne Eingriffe, weder durch Sanktionen noch durch mediale Manipulation, um das Recht der Völker zu respektieren, selbstbestimmt und unter der Voraussetzung des Wohls des sozialen Kollektivs, selbst die Strategien der wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Erholung zu definieren.

Wir laden alle zum Protest am Pariser Platz ein, gegen die undemokratische und imperialistische Einmischung der deutschen Bundesregierung und für die Achtung der Selbstbestimmung der Völker unseres Kontinents, sowie des ganzen globalen Südens.

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