World Free Spaces Newswire Archive

Chavez Supporters Gather in Venezuela's Capital for Largest Pro-Chavez Rally

Crowd estimates ranged from 100,000 (opposition) to one million (pro-Chavez)

Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez filled Caracas’ largest public venue yesterday, packing the Avenida Bolívar for well over a mile and overflowing onto side streets all over the downtown. Clad in red—the colour that has come to represent chavismo in Venezuela—supporters bore t-shirts, hats, berets, placards, puppets, and inventive home-made signs all uniformly declaring “No!” to the recall on Chávez’ mandate scheduled for next Sunday, August 15th.

here is a review of the opening event of the Latinamerican liberation exhibition at the rampART, part of the Venezuela Solidatrity Week.

While the world's attention has been focused on the middle east, the inavision and occupation of Iraq and the ongoing conflict over Palestine, few people have noticed the shake up occuring in South America. Everyone knows that the latinamerican countries are generally political unstable and characterised by military rule. Many people are aware that the US has a long history of intervention, installing and supporting complient dictators or replacing those that don't tow the US line. But there has been a shift, the forth largest supplier of oil to the US has excaped the cycle and liberated themselves from the yoke of the elite. However, the odds are stacked against them. Even having survived a coup and a bosses lock out in the last couple of years, and despite every indication that the people will win the recall referendum of their democratically elected president Hugo Chavez, there may be dark clouds on the horizon. Large arms caches have been intercepted entering the country. Large amounts of explosives have gone missing from military stocks and opposition are talking openly of violence and assasination.

[to find out more, visit the rampART (www.rampart.co.nr) this week during Venezuela Solidarity Week for talks, films, food, and art (see www.thenewagenda.org for programme)]

Below is an article from a right wing american publication which gives some idea of the propaganda being released to path the way for US intervention...

CSOA Hamsa a squatted space in Barcelona was evicted by armed police during the early hours of this morning. Inside were a number of activists who have been resisting impending eviction for almost 100 days.

US wins David Blunkett Lifetime Menace Award and he said this too: "gets ridicule for not
always being here at this one moment when in fact he is making a difference, not
only to the standing of our country but to the ability of Britain to contribute and to
punch its weight... [and this: "I will end the] "animal extremists' reign of terror." For a different view - a few examples of UK atrocities:

From 22 to 25 July, a polymedia laboratory was set up at the PUCRS University in Porto Alegre in Southern Brazil. The medialab took place alongside the OURMedia conference.

A 20 year scheme to move up to five million tonnes of rock from hills above Pontypool South Wales has been proposed.

The Use Your Loaf squatted Social Centre is under threat of eviction. Come down and help us save this space.

Info for class orientated anarchists coming to Belgrade during European PGA Conference

original article
Antropologos contra el Forum 2004
 http://barcelona.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=27325

Webstream will be active 24/7 thru the week

Call to Participate in Independent Audio Media making at the Republican National Convention in New York City, late August, early September. Huge international protest turnout is anticipated.

On Wednesday June 9th, 10 Pirates did the unthinkable: they set sail toward Sea Island against all odds. Determined to make their message heard these activists brought their banner and their voices to the summit doors ignoring the weather, the darkness, and the warnings of danger.

At a women’s briefing meeting this week, we heard from UK organisers that giving women independent space was not seen as a priority. Yet the Women’s Day at the Paris ESF last November was decisive in making women’s campaigns visible, including grassroots organising against immigration and asylum laws, and against war and occupation. After 30 years of the modern women’s movement and feminism, nobody in the present ESF process seems to know why women must be able to meet independently. What do you think can be done to stop this backward step?

Appeal for volunteer Interpreters and translators:

Around Mayday, in the city of Dublin the presidents of the EU celebrated their new expansion of globalisation via the Eastern European States.
Here are some pictures from the prisoner solidarity demonstration outside Mountjoy Prison in Dublin and the start of the RTS streetparty.

The danish right-wing government wants to evict Christiania

In the afternoon protesters whose numbers had swelled to over 1000 went on to reclaim space in the city. A private park in the the centre of the town was opened and occupied.

Photos of the Critical Mass protest in Dublin last night.

In the last weeks there were diverse projects of squatting activities in hamburg, most related to the ongoing repression against trailerparks.

The abandoned Ifanet industry was occupied, at 9.30 in Saturday morning, by 60 people. The aim is to turn the industrial block into an open public space. The first building is being repaired, after a leaflet was distributed to the neighborhood. The occupied squere IFANET is about 19.500 m2.