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At the beginning of February the Swedish site of Hands off Venezuela, www.handsoffvenezuela.se, was launched. The aim is to answer the silence and the lies about Venezuela in the Swedish media, and to raise solidarity for the Venezuelan revolution within the labour movement and amongst the youth.

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This is an initial announcement with the following confirmed tour stops: San Francisco, CA; Portland, OR; Olympia, WA; Seattle, WA; Vancouver, BC; Berkeley, CA; Tucson, AZ; San Jose, CA; San Francisco, CA...

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On Friday, February 17, over 30 people braved the -10 below zero weather to attend the Minneapolis Premiere of "The Old Man and Jesus: Prophets of Rebellion". The passion and revolutionary fervor of the most downtrodden members of society should give us all hope that another world is indeed possible.

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Hands Off Venezuela has been launched in Texas!  All it takes is a handful of people to start a local HOV group.  It all begins with a few film showings, discussions, and an ever-broadening local and national network of people and organizations committed to opposing U.S. intervention, spreading awareness, and building solidarity between Venezuelan and U.S. working people.  Join HOV today and set up a local group in your town!

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Yesterday Hands Off Venezuela and the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign were outside the Venezuelan embassy expressing solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution against Blair’s recent attack in parliament.

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After the scandalous attack by Tony Blair last week on the Venezuelan government and Hugo Chavez in particular, an Early Day Motion, number 1644, on "Developments in Venezuela" has been put down and so far signed by 72 MPs. The motion recognises the achievements of Venezuela in the recent period and calls on the British Parliament to support Chavez.

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Luis Primo, a member of the Venezuelan National Union of Workers (UNT) will be in the U.S. to speak between March 18 and 25.  U.S. Hands Off  Venezuela is launching a fundraising appeal to cover the expenses we will incur.

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In light of the recent attacks on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Hand Off Venezuela campaign has issued a protest letter addressed to Tony Blair. We urge all our readers to add their signatures.

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On February 4th, the US Hands off Venezuela Campaign was invited to set up an table at the annual convention for the Rhode Island charity and political advocacy group Campaign to Eliminate Childhood Poverty (CECP). Many of the attendees of the event took a keen interest in the HOV table.

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Alan Woods recently spoke in the headquarters of the Parisian Federation of the French Communist Party at a Hands Off Venezuela meeting organised by La Riposte and the campaign Pas touche au Venezuela!. Also speaking was Maria Antonieta Borjas, of the Venezuelan Embassy and Esteban Volkov, the grandson of Leon Trotsky, who was warmly applauded by the meeting.

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As part of the Minneapolis-based Resource Center of the Americas Friday movie night, John Peterson, National Secretary of the U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Campaign introduced the film and led a discussion afterwards.  The film, which covers a broad period of Venezuelan history, focusing on the years since the “Caracazo” of 1989, was very well received and sparked a lively discussion.

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On Friday, January 27, around 80 people attended a Venezuela solidarity event at the University of Minnesota's Blegen Hall, sponsored by the Minnesota Venezuela Committee and the U of M. Jesus "Chucho" Garcia, an Afro-Venezuelan activist and author, discussed CITGO's discounted fuel program and its impact on poor communities in the United States.

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San Francisco HOV organized a lecture and film showing on Friday, January 27, in San Francisco  in which approximately 30 people attended. The film conveyed a clear sense of the rising awareness of their own power that ordinary people in Venezuela are experiencing.

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  1. WSF Caracas: First Meeting of Hands Off Venezuela a Resounding Success
  2. Two more letters from the World Social Forum
  3. Successful Hands Off Venezuela meeting at Berlin's Humbolt University
  4. Hands Off Venezuela meetings at the World Social Forum, Caracas
  5. Two reports from the World Social Forum in Caracas
  6. Hands Off Venezuela: Building London-Caracas Solidarity at the 2006 World Social Forum
  7. British Communication Workers Union highlights Venezuela
  8. World Social Forum in Venezuela is on Track Say Organizers
  9. 'Hands Off Venezuela!' campaign launched in Israel
  10. Statement from the Hands Off Venezuela Preparatory Committee
  11. “Venezuela Bolivariana” well received in Belfast
  12. Canada: Hands Off Venezuela endorsed by the North and South Okanagan Labour Councils
  13. Manos Fuera de Venezuela hospeda la visita de un líder de la UNT a Gran Bretaña.
  14. Hands Off Venezuela Hosts UNT leader’s visit to Britain
  15. Good turn-out at November 25 launch of the “Hands off Venezuela” campaign in Athens
  16. Hands Off Venezuela first National Conference in Britain: Huge step forward for the campaign
  17. International Venezuelan Solidarity Day: Friday, December 2, 2005
  18. Hands Off Venezuela addresses the North Wales Social Forum
  19. SPÖ Vorarlberg (Austria) supports Hands Off Venezuela
  20. Britain: RESPECT affiliates to Hands Off Venezuela campaign
  21. Hands Off Venezuela up and running in Calgary, Alberta (Canada)
  22. Hands off Venezuela in the Midlands - Leicester
  23. Ontario Federation of Labour passes resolution endorsing Hands Off Venezuela
  24. Britain: Hands of Venezuela in the Midlands
  25. Hands Off Venezuela UK Conference: International solidarity advances
  26. Successful HOV meeting in Edinburgh University
  27. New York: An Evening in Solidarity with Bolivarian Venezuela
  28. Hands off Venezuela Campaign kicks off in Fife, Scotland
  29. Hands off Venezuela at Swedish international conference
  30. The campaign captures UEA students' imagination
  31. Hands Off Venezuela gets to Leeds University
  32. October 12th: In Venezuela they call it "Day of indigenous resistance"
  33. Hands Off Venezuela committee formed in Edinburgh
  34. Hands Off Venezuela at the University of East Anglia Fresher's Fair
  35. Hands Off Venezuela at left Labour Party Conference rally
  36. Vancouver hosts two revolutionary speakers from Venezuela
  37. Hands Off Venezuela brings a message of revolution to anti-war protest
  38. "US Hands Off Venezuela" at LA march against the war
  39. Venezuela motion to British Labour Party Conference
  40. Hands Off Venezuela at the F
  41. Motion in Pakistan Parliament against threats to assassinate Chavez
  42. Venezuela: Eyewitness report from the heart of the revolution
  43. Hands Off Venezuela Freshers' Fair Appeal
  44. Impressions from the World Festival of Students and Youth
  45. Letter from Caracas: Love at first sight with the Venezuelan revolution
  46. 16
  47. 16th World Festival of Students and Youth – Chavez once again calls for socialism as the only way to
  48. Over 120,000 expected to attend the XVI World Youth Festival in Caracas
  49. Hamilton Latin American Solidarity Night a Success
  50. The World Festival of Students and Youth - After August, What's Next?
  51. Early Day Motions in British Parliament on Venezuela and extradition of Posada Carriles - ask your MP to sign!
  52. UNT leader Stalin Perez Borges speaking in California
  53. Hands Off Venezuela tackling poverty at the G8 summit
  54. Enthusiasm for Venezuelan UNT at railway workers congress
  55. Cuba, Colombia and Venezuela find an echo at the UNISON conference
  56. Austria:
  57. Successful Campaign Kick-off for
  58. UNT leader speaks at outstanding Hands Off Venezuela meeting in London
  59. Bush give up the terrorists! Picket of the US embassy in London
  60. Bush: Give up the terrorists! London US embassy demo Monday June 13
  61. UNT leader Orlando Chirino speaks in London
  62. San Francisco Bay Hands Off Venezuela Formed
  63. British Columbia delegation to Venezuela reports back in Vancouver
  64. Come to the next meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Hands Off Venezuela!
  65. Recent HOV activities in Germany
  66. To the U.S. Government: Hands Off Venezuela! Signatures
  67. Bolivian trade union and social movement leaders support open letter to US trade unionists
  68. One of the largest European trade unions supports Venezuela
  69. Hands Off Venezuela Auction 2005
  70. HOV at the Winnipeg Social Forum
  71. Hands off Venezuela campaign launched in Vancouver!
  72. Open letter to US trade unionists - Signatures
  73. Venezuela trade union solidarity appeal launched for May Day
  74. Open letter to US trade unionists
  75. London -> Caracas School: culture, food, music and... revolutionary politics
  76. LONDON -> CARACAS day-school & party!
  77. Hands Off Venezuela launched in Waterloo, Ontario
  78. Alan Woods and William Izarra stress need to leave reformism behind and build Socialism of 21C
  79. Enthusiastic response for Marxist ideas: Successful public meetings in Caracas
  80. March 17th Venezuelan Cultural Night at MIT in Boston
  81. The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela and British Workers Make Contact!
  82. Fargo-Moorhead WFSY LOC Launched
  83. Hands off Venezuela campaign launched at Trent University, Canada
  84. German Easter Marches: Revolution in Venezuela presented as an
  85. Successful Launch of Hands Off Venezuela in Toronto
  86. Successful Hands off Venezuela meeting after anti-war demo
  87. Support the Workers of the CNV in Venezuela
  88. Urgent: support needed for the Venezuelan UNT!
  89. Toronto Launch Meeting for HoV Campaign
  90. British Midlands Regional TUC Supports UNT
  91. Hands Off Venezuela meetings in Paris, Toulouse and Portes-l
  92. Recent HOV activities in Germany
  93. The 16th WFSY - An Historic Event in the Making
  94. Philippines-Venezuela Solidarity Launched
  95. Date Changes for the World Festival of Students and Youth in Caracas
  96. Venezuelan ambassador to London speaking in Parliament
  97. Jorge Martin speaks in the Six Counties - another stone laid in the building of Hands Off Venezuela
  98. Revolution today, capitalism, crisis and resistance in Venezuela
  99. Dublin Hands Off Venezuela meeting – Biggest ever held at AT&GWU offices
  100. UNT activist meets Irish trade union leaders

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