[Upd-discuss] Caracas, Venezuela Dec 2, 2004: Worldwide Conference in Defense of Humanity

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

>From Progressive Librarian Guild list.
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Subject:	Meeting in Defense of Humanity
Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:39:21 -0800

There is going to be a meeting titled "In Defense
of 
Humanity" to be held in 
Caracas, Venezuela beginning on Thursday. It
sound quite 
interesting to me 
and I thought you might be interested to know
that several 
of our members 
are attending, Rhonda Neugebauer, Ann Sparanese,
Mark 
Rosenzweig, , and John 
Pateman, as well as a librarian from Mexico,
Feipe Meneses 
as well as 
well-known authors, actors, and others. I found
an article 
published 
yesterday in Rebelion, an online magazine from
Spain and I 
translated for 
all of you to know about the meeting.

29-11-2004
Caracas: In defense of Humanity
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=8226

Next week 400 intellectuals and articles from all
over the 
world will gather 
in Caracas to participate at a meeting in defense
of 
humanity.

The attendees are convinced that humanity has
arrived at a 
crucial moment 
where the current century’s path and the very
survival of 
humankind are 
already being defined.

Among the elements of greatest danger and that
which must 
concern us, is 
noted in the announcement for the event, the
founding of a 
model of global 
domination which ignores people’s sovereignty,
the 
breakdown of 
international legality, the monopolization and
control of 
the planet’s 
energy resources, the military invasions of
Afghanistan and 
Iraq and a 
subordination of the mass media to large
corporate 
interests never before 
seen together with the imperialist intent to
globalize its 
hegemony which 
causes resistance and struggle.

In that resistance and struggle which naturally
also has 
Latin America as a 
setting, the participation of the intellectual
and artistic 
sectors, 
convinced that these actions cannot be postponed,
won’t 
stop contributing 
analyses, denunciations, proposals and
alternative works of 
art to those 
from  the imperial order.

The intellectuals gathered at this meeting
clearly point 
out that “in Latin 
America, the neoliberal model, today in crisis,
the dead 
weight of external 
debt and the annexionist pretensions of the FTAA
(Free 
Trade Area of the 
Americas), which tries to perpetuate the empire’s

domination on our 
countries, has generated, without precedents, a
popular 
mobilization. The 
Bolivarian process that benefits the excluded
majority is 
developing in 
Venezuela, confronting subversive actions from
the internal 
reaction allied 
to powerful foreign interests. Social advances
haven’t 
stopped in Cuba, 
despite the blockade and all types of aggressions
to which 
it has been 
subjected on behalf of successive U.S.
government.”

With the antecedent of a similar meeting held
last year in 
Mexico, 
Venezuelan and Cuban intellectuals and artists
decided to 
convene their 
colleagues from around the world in order to talk
and 
reflect, but also to 
present common action proposals based on a
similar ethical 
position and 
social commitment facing the immense problems
which 
threaten humanity.

Among the attendees, an important delegation from

Switzerland, composed of 
intellectuals and artists and respected for their

professional competence 
and social commitment, has also been invited.

In particular, the achievement of this event in
Venezuela 
surely will make 
possible, in addition to the attendees knowing at
first 
hand the profound 
process of social and political change which
people from a 
fellow country, 
victims of a well-orchestrated manipulation, star
and, at 
the same time, the 
ability to show their solidarity with the
countries of 
Bolívar and Martí, 
today threatened by serious dangers of direct
aggressions 
orchestrated by 
Washington’s hawks.

Because of the intellectual and ethical quality
of the 
attendees, this 
meeting in Caracas will be an important link in
the 
resistance and struggle 
of the best ideas and feelings in defense of the
best of 
humanity and its 
future.


*********
Dana Lubow
L.A. Valley College Library

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the
United 
Nations establishes 
that all people have the right to
self-determination and 
national 
sovereignty.

"Cuba seems to have the same effect on American 
administrations that the 
full moon once had on werewolves.
Wayne Smith, former Chief of the U.S. Interests
Section in 
Havana

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Vorwärts!

Zapopan Martín Muela Meza
PhD student Information Studies
Department of Information Studies
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/research/phd.html
http://www.geocities.com/zapopanmuela/index.html


		
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