We, activists at Hands Off Venezuela have come to learn that the first rule when reading most media coverage about Venezuela is to turn it around 180 degrees If we want to find out the truth! A case in point is the recent coverage of the exchange between Chavez and Spanish King Juan Carlos I at the 17th Ibero-American summit in Chile in which the King told Chavez to shut up.

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A red sea of elected PSUV representatives greeted Chávez at the Caracas Poliedro on November 6th. They were there to launch the campaign for the constitutional reform referendum. Darral Cozens, a Hands Off Venezuela activist from Britain was also there.

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The third episode of the Hands off Venezuela podcast is now availble for download or to listen to online.  Highlights include clips from the recent visit of Venezuelan MPs to London to discuss constitutional reform, Michael Liebowitz on Socialism of the 21st Century, and information on the upcoming UK national conference.  There’s also more details on constitutional reform and the usual burst of news, report backs and upcoming events including how you can help show support for the Venezuelan people during this period of heightened opposition action surrounding the referendum.

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According to eyewitness reports from Hands Off Venezuela members, violence broke out yesterday in Caracas when opposition students arrived back from a peaceful demonstration against the proposed constitutional reforms (with pictures and video).

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Over the weekend of October 26 to 27, several hundred people attended a two day conference on Worker's Management: Theory and Practice, as part of a program, "Human Development and Transformative Praxis," run by Canadian Marxist academic Michael Lebowitz at the International Miranda Center in Caracas.

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Macleans magazine, one of the major current affairs magazines in Canada, has recently published one of the most biased anti-Chavez articles ever seen in the country. HOV Canada has taken up the article, along with organisations in the US, in an effort to combat the distortions and out-and-out lies.

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The conference of Irish Labour Youth passed a motion (no. 37) in support of the Venezuelan Revolution last Saturday, 27th October. The motion also called on Labour Youth "to build links with the Irish branch of the ‘Hands Off Venezuela Campaign’."

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The San Francisco branch of Hands Off Venezuela organized two screenings of the new documentary, ‘No Volverán: The Venezuelan Revolution Now'. The first screening was at the Mission Cultural Centre in the heart of San Francisco's Latin American community.

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