[act-ma] 12/03 Seeds of Solidarity for Venezuela event

[Charlie Welch]

Dear friends,

This will be our first Seeds of Solidarity for Venezuela project event.  
A Facebook event was created. The link is below. If you are on Facebook 
please click it as "Interested" -- and please, please, please, take a 
few more minutes and Share and Invite Friends to the event. Here is the 
link to the event and the read up.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1286317931410088/

<https://www.facebook.com/events/1286317931410088/>

<https://www.facebook.com/events/1286317931410088/>
Hear Lisa Sullivan via Skype give a report back on the Seeds of 
Solidarity Project. She lives in Venezuela and is coordinating the 
international project provide seeds to co-operatives and small organic 
farms.
We will also hear from several local recent visitors to Lisa and the 
project.
Ausra Kubilius is a retired English professor who has studied and worked 
in Central America (Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras) and traveled in 
South America.

Seymour Kellerman is a retired software engineer who worked in Nicaragua 
and traveled extensively in Central and South America.

Both are active in School of the Americas Watch and were members of 
SOAWatch delegations to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and 
Chile. They recently returned from their second delegation to Venezuela.
For more information check out these articles:

https://foodfirst.org/special-report-hunger-in-venezuela-a-look-beyond-the-spin/ 
<https://foodfirst.org/special-report-hunger-in-venezuela-a-look-beyond-the-spin/>

https://revolucionalimentaria.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/statement-of-international-solidarity-with-venezuelas-seed-law/ 
<https://revolucionalimentaria.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/statement-of-international-solidarity-with-venezuelas-seed-law/>

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/01/venezuela-passes-law-banning-gmos-by-popular-demand-2/ 
<http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/01/venezuela-passes-law-banning-gmos-by-popular-demand-2/>

By Lisa Sullivan:
https://us-venezuelasolidarity.org/2016/10/31/seeds-of-solidarity-for-venezuela-project/ 
<https://us-venezuelasolidarity.org/2016/10/31/seeds-of-solidarity-for-venezuela-project/>