Venezuela-based US activist Charlie Hardy to Speak in Oakland, California - Nov. 10 [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

Charlie Hardy, a US-born activist living in Venezuela, will be
speaking on Wednesday, Nov. 10, Noon to 2 p.m. in the City Council
chambers of the Oakland City Hall.

He will talk about the democratic revolutionary process that is now
unfolding in Venezuela, the recent elections, grassroots activism and
community organization in contemporary Venezuela, and the challenges
ahead in this dynamic South American country.

Charlie Hardy is a former Catholic priest from Wyoming who works with
the poor of the barrios of Caracas Venezuela .

He has been writing and speaking about the political and social
reality of Latin America for over 40 years. He has visited almost
every Central and South American country.

Charlie is the author of the book "A Cowboy in Caracas: A North
American's Memoir of Venezuela's Democratic Revolution."

Saul Landau described Charlie’s book as “an antidote to the poisonous
US government mantra against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
Ironically, Cowboy isn't about Chávez, but about the exciting
processes he has helped initiate and about the awakening of Venezuela
's poor whom the US media neglects.”

See his website at http://www.cowboyincaracas.com/

(SNIP)

"As a former Catholic priest who has lived in Venezuela for the past 25
(years) and spent eight of those years in a cardboard-and-tin shack in one of
Caracas' barrios, Charles Hardy is in a unique position to explain
what is taking place. Cowboy in Caracas: A North American's Memoir of
Venezuela's Democratic Revolution gives the reader insight into the
Venezuelan reality, using an anecdotal presentation drawn from the
writer's personal experiences."

http://venezuelanalysis.com/event/5753
(Fair Use License)
(my emphases)

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"Insight into the Venezuelan reality..."!!! Wow! That's something we NEVER get from our corpo-fascist press which utterly ignores the people of Venezuela--the grass roots activists, the community organizations, the social movements, the poor majority--who put the Chavez government in power and kept them in power despite a U.S. supported coup d'etat attempt and non-stop propaganda and plotting--as well as ignoring the democratic processes in Venezuela by which the people of Venezuela accomplished this amazing feat. It's about the PEOPLE, people! Get it? We, the people. They, the people. Not phony, Koch Industries-funded, Mad Hatter 'Tea Partiers,' nor their USAID-funded counterparts in Venezuela and Miami. Real people, real grass roots movements, real representation of the poor majority in government, real democracy!

What has happened AMONG THE PEOPLE? Who are they? How did they do it? How did they get themselves an FDR-type "New Deal? What can we learn from them? Those are the things that our corpo-fascist press NEVER reports on--NEVER! And those are the things that Charles Hardy will be speaking about in Oakland and wrote a book about. Attend if you can. Buy his book if you cannot. And if you can't do either, visit his web site: http://www.cowboyincaracas.com

He has speaking engagements this November elsewhere in California, and in Wisconsin, Illinois, Georgia and Indiana.