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Pro-Chavez demo in Parliament Square this Monday to mark visit

. | 13.05.2006 15:35 | London

There will be a demo in Parliament Square this Monday at 4pm as President Chávez addresses MPs inside Parliament. Any chance of Brian Haw meeting him?

Tomorrow (Sunday) supporters with music are going to be greeting Chavez tomorrow at 2pm outside his first appointment at the Casa Miranda, next to Bolivar Hall (52 Grafton Way, off Tottenham Court Rd WC1, nearest tube Warren Street). Wear red!

The Chavez rally afterwards starts at 3pm or 4pm (depending on who you listen to) and goes on to 7pm in the Camden Centre (38 Bidborough St, off Judd St WC1, nearest tube Kings Cross). You probably won't get in without a ticket from Mr Livingstone but who knows.

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Meeting cancelled

14.05.2006 19:57

I have just visited the Venezuela Solidarity Group Website and according to them the meeting in Friends House has been cancelled.  http://www.vicuk.org

I really wanted to go and support President Chavez during his visit to London and I find it very unfortunate the confusing and hard to get information about meetings and demonstration.

I was given a leaflet by VIC on Mayday announcing the President Chavez visit but with only a phone number where to call two days before as they did not know the details, now I see on their website that President Chavez has been in Kings Cross today, and now I read on Indymedia an unsigned post asking to assist the meeting tomorrow. I am unsure about the demonstration as the VIC website says nothing about it.

It is hard to go and give support with such a short notice and not even knowing if the demo has also been cancelled or not.

Justin


monday demos

14.05.2006 22:19

I hate to be people's front of judea about this but the Venzuela Information Centre are run by Ken Livingstone's mates and are more into closed meetings with Labour MPs than open rallies and demos, in much the way Livingstone ran the European Social Forum when it came to London. They organised a conference the same day and almost the same place as a Hands off Venezuela conference in London last year for some reason that must have made sense to someone at the time.

See this website or Hands off Venezuela's one for info you don't get from the, eh, information centre.

bolivar
- Homepage: http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org.uk/


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