This is a big event coming up in Chicago -- it anticipates a split in the AFL-CIO....
DA : Tu je28 05
FR : Chicago Area Organizing Group Saying No to the NED
of the Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC) Campaign
to END the NED.
TO : Chicago Area Radio Program Hosts
RE : Speakers available Wed, Thu, Fri June 29 30 July 1
FYI Background. AFL CIO National Convention is at Navy Pier
July 24 28 and we will be there, too. We Call for an END to
the NED. What’s the NED and what’s that got to do with AFL CIO?
The NED is the National Endowment for Democracy,
quite a misnomer, which fronts for corporate interests using
federal tax dollars, Reagan law, 1983. The NED helped organize the
2002 coup attempt against VENEZUELAN Bolivarian Republic
democratically elected President Hugo Chavez. The NED is
implicated with the 2003 kidnaping of HAITIAN President Jean
Bertrand Aristide, also, democratically elected.
The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center receives funds from the
NED and was directly involved in the coup in Venezuela. The top
officials of the AFL-CIO are being challenged by members of their
federation to end involvement in actions like this.
We are the ad hoc Chicago Area Organizing Group of the
Latin America Solidarity Coalition. This is a LASC initiative, coming
from national meeting April 16 05. Visit
http://www.lasolidarity.org <
http://www.lasolidarity.org/>
Chicago list of organizations is forming and currently includes
Chicago ANSWER, Chicago Black United Front, Chicago Cinquera
El Salvador Sister City, Chicago Greens, Chicago International Workers
of the World, Colombia Solidarity Committee/Colombia Action Network,
Freedom Road Socialists Organization, International Socialist Organization,
Labor Beat/Labor Express, La Voz de Los Abajo, New World Resource
Center, Nicaragua Solidarity, Pan Africa Roots, Bolivarian Circles of Chicago,
Veterans for Peace, Voices in the Wilderness, Zimbabwe Solidarity Network
The Chicago Organizing Group will have Rally at Navy Pier
Sunday 4pm July 24
SPEAKERS available June 29 30 and July 1, Wednesday to Friday, mornings to early afternoon. Accessible by phone as well as studio. You may interview
now for later use, of course, should that suit you.
JAMES JORDAN of Tuscon AZ independent network Turnwind, helped initiate the Latin America Central America Coalition, LASC, campaign to end the NED, end US taxpayers obstructing other people’s historic self-determination. From his extensive research into the NED, James can clarify on the mechanism of the NED and how international labor solidarity is progressing while hindered.
James would like to speak to the California Labor Federation Resolution titled To Build Unity and Trust Among Workers Worldwide. The Resolution calls for Clearing the Air regarding how the AFL CIO has been implicated in US Government behind the scenes political duplicity.
DOZTHOR ZURLENT is a member of various political and social organizations in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: Bolivarian Circles, The Network of Social Organizations and The 13th of April Movement, among others.
He’d like to speak on the current political situation in Venezuela and the success and shortcomings of the country’s new models of democracy and development
As a documentary videographer, Dorthor’s recently completed 50 minute House on Third Street tells of the struggle in the San Augustine of the South community to rescue an old, abandoned theater and turn it into a community center for cultural, social and political interactions.
This is a unique opportunity for insightful information of historic dimension, we think. Contact - 773 551 3368 / Venezuelan Consulate 312 236 9659 or
nscchicago@igc.org
James Jordan will be back for the AFL CIO National July 23-29; KIM SCIPES is published professor of Labor History at Purdue and will be available after July 1. Kim's phone and e are 773 227 8974 kimscipes@earthlink.net
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