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Trump has signed an Executive Order imposing strong, new financial sanctions on Venezuela. The U.S. wants to "topple a foreign regime without firing a single shot." The Treasury Department is issuing general licenses that allow for transactions that would otherwise be prohibited by the Executive Order. These include provisions allowing for a 30-day wind-down period; financing for most commercial trade, including the export and import of petroleum; transactions only involving Citgo; dealings in select existing Venezuelan debts; and the "financing for humanitarian goods to Venezuela." A debt default would likely push investors to try to seize PdVSA’s foreign assets. Two of PdVSA’s joint venture partners are Russia’s Rosneft and China. The U.S. emphasizes that "The Maduro dictatorship continues to deprive the Venezuelan people of food and medicine, imprison the democratically-elected opposition, and violently suppress freedom of speech. "The regime's decision to create an illegitimate Constituent Assembly —and most recently to have that body usurp the powers of the democratically-elected National Assembly—represents a fundamental break in Venezuela's legitimate constitutional order. "The United States is not alone in condemning the Maduro regime. Through the Lima Declaration of August 8, our friends and partners in the region refused to recognize the illegitimate Constituent Assembly or the laws it adopts. "The new United States financial sanctions support this regional posture of economically isolating the Madura dictatorship. "This will likely add fuel to Maduro's fire talk about America waging economic war against the Latin American nation (as opposed to the utter collapse of the country being due to decades of Bernie Sanders-style socialism)*." *This myth debunked here: http://houstoncommunistparty.com/the-reality-about-venezuela-five-myths-debunked

A Marxist View of Climate Change Danger - Presentation & Discussion with Marc Brodine, Chair of CPUSA Environmental Commission cpusa.org Sunday, March 19th, 1:30  pm @ Royal Café: 10793 W Grand Ave, Sun City, Arizona Marc Brodine will provide a Marxist approach to understanding Climate Change, the danger it poses for humanity and all living things on this planet, and some of the ways a broad world mass movement might save Mother Earth. Clearly, we can't wait for corporate America, Congress, or the Trump administration to save us. What can we do about the looming danger to our children and grandchildren? How can we move the American working class majority into the struggle before it's too late?? Suggested reading - http://www.cpusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Brodine_Dialectics_Nature-3.pdf Sponsored by Salt of the Earth Labor College facebook.com/saltoftheearthlaborcollege.org Marc Brodine is also active on the Board of the local farmers market in Roslyn, Washington and was treasurer of his AFSCME union local for nine terms. For more information contact Joe (520) 235-0694 or [email protected]

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INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE: Social Justice Events at Unitarian Church, Tucson - Corporate greed and human rights violations by the government are a national pandemic. Here in Southern Arizona, Tohono O'odham tribal elder and activist Ofelia Rivas, a founder of O'odham VOICE Against the WALL, will be in Tucson to speak about the human rights violations and the impact of the occupation of the Tohono O'odham reservation at the Arizona-Mexico border by the U.S. Border Patrol. She will also talk about the $145 million proposed Israeli Elbit Systems surveillance towers in O'odham communities and the impact of the steel and concrete border fence that cuts through the middle of O'odham land, (which is home to about 35,000 O'odham tribal members), separating them from their families and sacred tribal ceremonial grounds on the Mexico side of the border. Co-sponsored by the O'odham VOICE Against the WALL, the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson and No More Deaths. The event is free, but donations to the work of Ofelia Rivas will be gratefully accepted. 1 p.m. Wednesday, January 11, Goddard Hall, Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson 4831 E. 22nd St., just east of Swan Rd. --Michele Manos, [email protected]

11th Phoenix Annual Parade of the Arts, 8th Grand Avenue Festival this Weekend! #artparade #superheroparade #papaparade

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ASU's School of Social Transformation at ASU Tempe Campus To recognize Ethnic Studies Week 2015, join SST in a series of special events. "Black Lives Matter!" will feature a conversation with Tia Oso, H. L. T. Quan, and special guest Barbara Ransby. The event will take place Tuesday, October 6, from 12-1:30 pm at West Hall 135. Pizza lunch to be provided. Later that day, historian, author, and activist Barbara Ransby is leading the keynote lecture "Forging an Insurgent Praxis Within the Neoliberal University: Lessons from Black Lives Matter." The lecture is from 5-6:30 pm in Carson Ballroom, Old Main. On October 17, there is a reading and open mic night with Red Ink International Literary Journal at the Phoenix Youth Hostel and Cultural Center. Learn more today! http://ow.ly/SumoU Tia Oso is the person who occupied the town-hall stage in Phoenix earlier this year with Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders in support of Black Lives Matter. H.L.T. Quan is an associate professor of justice and social inquiry and an affiliate faculty in African and African American studies, Asian Pacific American studies and women and gender studies at Arizona State University. Barbara Ransby is a professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies and history at University of Illinois at Chicago.

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