Journey with the revoultion with gasto murat and juanita romero

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Sunday October 08, 2006 01:36 by CArol-Anne Rushe - UCD womens officer carolanne.rushe at gmail dot com

Theatre R UCD John Henry Newman Building 11th October

The Global Women’s Strike and UCD Students Union invites you to
Meet two organisers from Venezuela

on tour in Europe during October

Dublin:

Wednesday 11 October, 7.30pm

Film-showing of Journey with the Revolution followed by a discussion led by Juanita Romero and Gastón Murat.
Hosted by the Students’ Union, University College Dublin
Theatre R, John Henry Newman Building (Arts Block), University College Dublin Steps to hall, please call beforehand if you need help with access

All events in Spanish/English with interpreter.

As Venezuela’s revolutionary movement seeks the re-election of President Hugo Chávez and a seat on the UN Security Council on behalf of non-aligned countries, US dollars flow in to try to get rid of Chávez. Two grassroots activists will tell us what is going on and why their president has become such a popular world leader.

Juanita Romero speaks for the Land Committee in Guaicaipuro, Miranda State, co-ordinating grassroots self-activity on housing, an urgent problem as the 70s oil boom pushed 80% of Venezuelans into the cities. She co-ordinates the Neighbourhood Mothers Mission through which women with least receive financial recognition for their caring work. She works with the Women´s Development Bank, to which Chávez recently awarded $50 million to help older women, women with disabilities, sex workers, teenage mothers and women in prison to form co-operatives and build a ´caring economy´.

Gastón Murat has a long experience in the Socialist League and in the movement which led to the revolution. He is a founding member in Miranda State of the Fuerza Bolivariana de Trabajadores and of UNT (Unión Nacional de Trabajadores), formed to defeat the corrupt trade union leadership who were involved in the 2002 coup.