[act-ma] Jan 28/29: Venezuela Speaks! Book Presentations & Forums

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Consulate <events.venezuelan.consulate at gmail.com> wrote:

>**PLEASE FORWARD**
>
>Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots
>  Book Presentations & Forums
>
>Thursday, January 28th
>
>Encuentro 5, 6:30pm
>33 Harrison Ave, floor 5, Boston, MA 02111 phone (617) 482-6300
>http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/130
>
>Friday, January 29th
>
>Lucy Parsons Center, 7:00pm
>549 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02118-1125
>phone: (617) 267-6272
>  http://lucyparsons.org/
>
>While Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez continues to capture headlines,
>a much larger story involving a wider cast of characters has gone
>largely ignored. Venezuela Speaks!, published by PM Press, is a
>collection of interviews with activists and participants from across
>Venezuela’s social movements. From community media to land reform,
>cooperatives to communal councils, from the labor movement to the
>Afro-Venezuelan network, Venezuela Speaks! sheds light on the complex
>realities within the Bolivarian Revolution.
>
>Join two of the co-authors, Carlos Martinez and Michael Fox, for a
>presentation and forum.  Yanahir Reyes, a Venezuelan activist that has
>participated in the women’s movement for years will also be joining
>the co-authors.  Reyes is the co-founder of a radio program focused on
>women’s issues called Milenia Palabra de Mujer at the Caracas-based
>community radio station Radio Perola.  As a public school teacher, she
>helped create a school in one of Caracas many poor barrios, using it
>as a popular education center to organize mothers in the community.
>With her support, the mothers went on to form their own organization,
>Asociación Civil “Primeros Pasos de la Mujer” (Women’s First Steps
>Civil Association).  She will talk in depth about the process of
>constructing popular power in Venezuela and the achievements and
>challenges facing the women’s movement.
>
>
>Books will be available for purchase ($20) and signing.
>
>--Venezuelan food and refreshments will be provided --
>
>To see the full schedule, click here:
>http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php?story=VenezuelaSpeaksTour
>To learn more about the book, visit the PM Press website at:
>https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=169 .
>For more Venezuela Speaks! updates and tour dates please visit:
>www.venezuelaspeaks.com or join the Venezuela Speaks! Facebook Group
>by clicking on the following link:
>http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=243253003620
>For more information contact Carlos at
>carlos at globalexchange.org
>
>“Venezuela Speaks! is a geography of struggle, a sociology of passion,
>and an ethnography of hope, of the unrelenting insistence that people
>have a right to control their own lives, and that in doing so, a
>better world will be made.”
>-Greg Grandin, author of Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United
>States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism.
>
>"The revolution within the Revolution are the many, powerful voices of
>the everyday people of Venezuela. They have suffered and survived the
>era of the oligarchy; they rose up in El Caracazo (1989), dreaming of
>another world; they voted in numbers and often for the Bolivarian
>regime, and they came out on the streets to defend their government in
>2002. These are the people. They have words. Venezuela Speaks! gives
>us a taste of them."
>-Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of
>the Third World.