Sometimes it is educative and healing to refresh our historical memory, to reflect about the thorny roads that we have left behind us, and to revive the dangerous rivers that we have crossed already. As such a theoretical spotlight can brighten our current daily, innovative praxis, can illuminate the past, obscure pot-holes of repetitive, ideological, reformist practices. Definitely, such evergreen trans-historic consciousness paves the revolutionary path towards future, accessible, mighty cliffs of human endeavor and victory.

Según un informe de nuestro colega Richard Smith de Vheadline.com en cuanto a la reunión en Fuerte Tiuna, donde se discutió la actual “Revolución dentro de la Revolución Bolivariana

Une manifestation a réuni environ 6000 opposants aux politiques du gouvernement Charest, samedi, devant le Palais des congrès à Montréal, où se tient le 29e congrès du Parti libéral du Québec.

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According to a report of our VHeadline.com colleague, Richard Smith, with regard to the meeting that took place in Fuerte Tiuna, to discuss the current "Revolution in the Bolivarian Revolution," and to elaborate certain, immediate urgent tasks, the following was underlined:

"The aim is to 'deepen' the revolution from the base upwards, and move away from the traditional influence of the leaders of the political parties, by broadening the reach of social and political action. One suspects that the architect of this strategy is, in fact, the chief ideologue of the Bolivarian Revolution, Commander William Izarra. ... Other points discussed at the Fuerte Tiuna meeting were the ideological education of the Venezuelan people -- as Chavez has said on more than one occasion -- “without political ideology and consciousness, there can be no revolution.

L'an dernier, la journée de perturbation de la CSN avait pour but de dénoncer les intentions du gouvernement. Cette année, la CSN dénonce les actions de ce dernier. Un an plus tard, son jeu est de plus en plus clair. Les lois votées l'an dernier commencent à faire sentir leurs effets et les nouveaux projets de loi sont tout aussi nuisibles. Le projet de loi 57 vise à appauvrir les personnes assistées sociales et le projet de loi 61 à mettre en place l'Agence des partenariats public-privé. Tout au long de la journée, il y a diverses activités de mobilisation partout au Québec.

I've established a new website at http://reemergence.org/ to serve as a forum for discussion of the cultural, political, and economic future of Cascadia, not to the exclusion of other independence-minded people worldwide.

Congreso Nacional 1854-2004:
150 Años de la Abolición de la Esclavitud en Venezuela.
¿Presente y pasado de una misma realidad?
17-19 de Noviembre 2004
Cátedra Simón Bolívar
Facultad de Humanidades
Universidad de Los Andes
Mérida, Venezuela

A. Introducción General

En vista de que hoy y aquí estamos celebrando los “150 años después de la Abolición de la Esclavitud en Venezuela

The only choice we'll have is between ballots and bullets if we want to remain free. That is the dilemma facing America today. Do we restore integrity into our election process today or do we face a dark choice later?