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Date: 9/25/2006 14:42:48 -0700
From: "Uncle Sam"
Screw Chavez, Screw Chavez supporters who live in America..Get the hell out.....Screw Danny Glover.....Screw the morons who buy into this shit......if America is so bad please just get the hell out...but instead you all come here (illegally)...get your educations, free medical care, and live the American dream the whole time bad mouthing this great nation and our President. You sign up for entitlements only to send money home to your very successful parents back in the dirt floored shanty....So just shut the f%$# up or get the hell out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I\'m sure this won\'t appear on your website so screw you too....cowards
Date: 9/24/2006 23:45:19 -0700
From: "ABAJO EL COMUNISMO!!!"
QUE VERGUENZA ES TENER LA CLASE DE PRESIDENTE QUE TIENE MI PAIS VIVO EN U.S.A UN PAIS QUE ME A DADO MUCHISIMO Y AL CUAL ESTOY MUY AGRADECIDA Y ME DA VERGUENZA!!!!!VERGUENZA DE TENER A ESE EXCREMTO FALTA DE RESPETO MANDANDO EN MI ADORADO VENEZUELA QUE ES ESO??!!!! DE VENIR A UN PAIS A INSULTAR AL PRESIDENTE DE ACA Y HABLAR BARBARIDAD Y MEDIA EN LAS NACIONES UNIDAS???!!!!! QUE FALTA DE RSPETO ES ESA??!!! ESE EXCREMENTO NO TIENE NIVEL DE EDUCACION ALGUNO!!! NI RESPETO POR NADA NI NADIE!
Date: 9/23/2006 19:25:08 -0700
From: "Preston [Edited]"
Hello,
Great project. I\'ll be getting a Chavez bumper sticker when they\'re ready to go. I was wondering, do you happen to know of educational \"circles\" in Venezuela that would be interested in donations of things like progressive DVDs? I was thinking, maybe if you had contacts in Venezuela, you could give me some advice on who I could connect with about that.
Also, I was glad to see you\'re in Denver, I\'m in Denver too. There\'s been a lot of discussion about Chavez on the Air America affiliate http://www.am760.net The local host, Jay Marvin, didn\'t like the \"diablo\" rhetoric, but all sorts of people have been calling in and applauding what Chavez did.
Kind Regards,
Preston
Date: 9/22/2006 18:51:11 -0700
From: "mary smith"
If you love Chavez so much than move to Venezuela.
Date: 9/22/2006 06:07:40 -0700
From: "Loyal American"
WHAT A JOKE. AMERICANS FOR CHAVEZ. IF THEY ARE FOR CHAVEZ THEY AREN\'T AMERICAN THEY ARE IDIOT\'S. THEY ARE TRAITOR\'S AND A DISGRACE. ALL CHAVEZ LOVERS FEEL FREE TO LEAVE AMERICA. TAKE DANNY GLOVER WITH YOU. CHAVEZ IS NOTHING MORE THAN A PIMP. HOPEFULLY HE (CHAVEZ) WILL LOSE IN VENEZUELAS NEXT ELECTION. MAYBE THE PEOPLE WILL VOTE IN SOMEONE WITH A BRAIN.
Date: 9/21/2006 18:57:01 -0700
From: "tootsie cozzo"
ALL I HAVE TO SAY FOR YOU SICKOS THAT ARE FOR CHAVEZ, FEEL FREE TO GO TO YOUR LOCAL AIRPORT AND GET ON A PLANE AND GET THE HECK OUT OF MY GREAT COUNTRY!!! SEE IF YOU CAN HAVE FREE PRESS THERE! MAKE ROOM FOR DANNY GLOVER,SEE HOW MANY MOVIES AND MILLIONS HE CAN MAKE OVER THERE.
Date: 9/21/2006 15:25:43 -0700
From: "Tommy boy"
Idiots, all of you, no exceptions....Chavez will not even be the tiniest of pimples on the ass of world history when its all said and done - Unless of course he\'s ridiculed through the ages....
Date: 9/21/2006 13:59:03 -0700
From: "Daniel Premkumar"
It was quite apparent from the \"honorable\" Venezuelan President\'s speech as to how honorable he really is and how frustrated his \"revolution\" is.
He had to use the freedom that the Americans given him, to be in the country and speak so cheaply. (It also reflects the level of resepctability that the UN deserves)
Too bad Hugo\'s critics back home will not receive the same courtesy that America extented him.
In any other country, including his own, a foreign leader making a comment like that against the head of the state would not have stepped out of the building with his hands and legs in tact.
Hugo really deserves that kind of treatment and it is long overdue for him!!
Date: 9/21/2006 09:21:44 -0700
From: "american patriot"
The Citgo boycott will now take off and there wont be too many people watching danny glover anymore either lol muhahahahaha
Date: 9/20/2006 19:56:34 -0700
From: "Adriana"
Odiooooooooo a Chavez lo unico que hace es avergonzarnos, parece un loco metiendose en los problemas de los demas paises, regalando el dinero de Venezuela, el que tiene que ir al siquiatra es el, el diablo es el, hasta cuando vamos los venezolanos a soportar semejante calamidad
Date: 9/20/2006 18:27:30 -0700
From: " MIKE"
fuck each and everyone of you chavez loving terrorist supporting commie loving assholes......i hope every american who works for this piece of shit company LOSE THEIR JOBS........ you fucking wetback mother fuckers CAN GO TO HELL.... GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY.... chavez is a PUSSY and from what i hear chavez LOVES LITTLE BOYS... fuck you... I nor anyone in my family nor my company will EVER BUY citgo gas,,,, fuck off you stupid mother fuckers... you have a problem with that.... FUCK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 9/14/2006 02:32:58 -0700
From: "Ted Bagg"
Hi, Bolivarians!
As of 14 Sept 2006, There\'s a problem with the Constitution in English page on this website, all the links retrieve the Table of Contents, no actual content beyond this is actually available. I\'m using Mozilla, haven\'t checked it for Explorer.
Sincerely,
Date: 9/13/2006 09:57:14 -0700
From: "Bob [Edited]"
Friends,
Two or three of us--trade union activists--are planning a trip to Venezuela in April. We speak very little Spanish. While we are there we hope to meet with our pro-government counterparts, see some of the country and do some of the normal tourist things. we have contacted the Venezuelan Embassy and they seem reasonably helpful thus far. Do you have other ideas on how we can make contact with people there and arrange things so that our trip is relatively safe and worthwhile?
Thanks!
Date: 9/07/2006 16:07:50 -0700
From: "WILLY"
COUNT THE VOTES BY HAND ON DEC.3........DON\'T BE SCARED!!!
Date: 8/22/2006 11:20:30 -0700
From: "Albert Ruiz"
I think your web sight is great. Do you have anything happening in Miami? I would love to network with your group sometime.
Date: 8/17/2006 16:17:58 -0700
From: "Círculo Bolivariano \"Battalia San Patricio.\""
New website of the San Patricio Bolivarian Circle: http://www.geocities.com/wyvyrn.geo/CBBSP/index.html
The San Bernardino/Riverside chapter of the Axis of Justice, Food Not Bombs and/or individual members are invited to join Battalia San Patricio Bolivarian Circle. If you are interested, Please post a response here or send e-mail to:
neearchives@graffiti.net or yclept@iname.com
Batallia San Patricio Bolivarian Circle is also starting an Oregon chapter: for more information, please email vivavilla@comcast.net
Links:
CARPE DIEM! Now is the time to put the Zapatista demands before the Mexican people!
According to Telesur:
\"The progressive Mexican leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced the celebration of the National Democratic Convention For the Good of All, from future September 16. The event is about how to define the role that the coalition will assume in the political national life of Mexico.\"
We propose that the National Democratic Convention For the Good of All put the following questions before the Mexican people, as we are already doing, which conclude the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Forest:
THE OTHER CONSULTATION
1. Do you want the construction of another way of doing politics, from below and for below, that governs obediently?
Yes [__] No [__] Don\'t know [__]
2. Do you want a new Constitution that takes into account the demands of the Mexican people such as: shelter, land, work, food, health, education, information, culture, independence, democracy, justice, freedom and peace, which recognizes the rights and freedoms of the people, and which defends the weak against the powerful?
Yes [__] No [__] Don\'t know [__]
3. Do you want a program of national struggle, of below and of the left, which constructs another way of doing politics, and which demands a new Constitution?
Yes [__] No [__] Don\'t know [__]
The official Zapatista website can be accessed by clicking: http://www.ezln.org.mx/
Date: 8/17/2006 07:41:06 -0700
From: "herman bringle"
Mr. Chavez: As a relatively aware American, I salute your efforts in S. America. In addition, your gesture thru Citco to those in America who are being subjected to class warfare much as is being done all over the world is top-drawer humanity. I only hope you continue to be a \"good chess player\" and are able to lead a peaceful revolt against big oil and, I\'m ashamed to say, my country.
Date: 8/15/2006 08:49:30 -0700
From: "Greg Grandin"
Hi,
Thanks for the great blog. I\'m trying to contact organizations that may be interested in a book that I just published with Metropolitan Books, called Empire\'s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism. It is a history of the US in Latin America, but in particular it looks at Ronald Reagan\'s Central American policy as kind of a boot camp for the gathering forces of the New Right who now run our country. It argues that the coalition that today stands behind George W. Bush\'s post.9/11 aggressive militarism was first forged in the 1980s, in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. Most importantly, Reagan\'s Central American wars, I argue, was the place the religious right and neconservatives first joined forces, not just to rehabilitate militarism after the crises of the 1970s, but first began to justify that militarism in evermore idealistic terms. I also argue that these two main groups that form today\'s governing conservative coalition came together to oppose liberation theology, along with the peace Christianity of the domestic solidarity movement. In addition to this ideological restoration of US militarism, it was in defense of Reagan\'s Central American policy that the New Right learned how to bypass mechanisms of congressional oversight and manipulate public opinion to wage unaccountable war. Reagan\'s Central American policy, which occurred simultaneously with the end of the Cold War, became a foundational experience for the New Right coalition that has led us into the insanity we now find ourselves in in the Middle East. The final chapter takes a look at the current movement against US hegemony, as it is led by Venezuela.
Empire\'s Workshop has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, so I\'m trying to get word out on my own. Please excuse the crass self-promotion, but I I\'m taking the liberty of pasting below publicity for the the book, in the hope that you will forward it as you see fit. I\'ll also include below some links to articles that sum up Empire\'s Workshop\'s argument, as well as to a few essays I just did on Latin America, including one on Chavez and Venezuela.
Please give me a call if you want further information: [Excised].
Thanks in advance, and thanks for such great work, Greg
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt Proudly Announces the Publication of Greg Grandin\'s
Empire\'s Workshop: Latin America, The United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805077383/103-7417489-0158238?v=glance&n=2 83155
Empire\'s Workshop is one of the first books to examine how a preemptive foreign policy in Latin America, which included sponsoring coups, death-squad states, and paramilitary insurgencies, has transformed America\'s domestic policies, forging today\'s ruling coalition of neoconservatives, Christian evangelicals, free marketers, and nationalists.
All of George W. Bush\'s abuses of power -the manipulation of intelligence and the media, torture in the name of freedom, the illegal wiretaps, and the surveillance of antiwar activists - have their most immediate antecedents in Reagan\'s Central American policy, which in retrospect has to be understood as the first battle in the New Right\'s crusade to rollback restrictions placed on the imperial presidency in the wake of Vietnam, Watergate, and other scandals of the 1970s.
The road to war in Iraq, Grandin argues, can be traced back to the 1970\'s and 1980\'s, when an increasingly internationalist New Right turned to Latin America to avenge Vietnam, and in so doing rehabilitated militarism as a legitimate instrument of state and made free-market capitalism the moral core of American purpose abroad.
Today, much of Latin America is in open rebellion against American domination. Grandin concludes his book with a sobering analysis of these explosive tensions and poses a vital question: If Washington has failed to bring prosperity and democracy to Latin America-its own backyard \"workshop\"-what are the chances it will do so for the world?
Early Praise for EMPIRE\'S WORKSHOP:
\"The Americans who engineered countless military coups, death squads and massacres in Latin America never paid for their crimes -- instead they got promoted and they\'re now running the \'War on Terror.\' Grandin had always been a brilliant historian, now he uses those detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial to understanding our present.\" -Naomi Klein, author of No Logo
\"Illuminates our dark, confusing times. Read Empire\'s Workshop and the whole disastrous Bush adventure in Iraq suddenly appears as the logical continuation of a century of U.S. interventions in that sad laboratory called Latin America.\" -Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden
\"A superb book that clarifies, like few others, the role of of Latin America in Washington´s grand design and the importance of the current uprising against the empire in Venezuela, Bolivia and beyond.\" -John Pilger, author of The New Rulers of the World
Greg Grandin
--on Democracy Now!: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/11/1446202
--on \"The Swift Boating of America:\" http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=88057
--Grandin on the \"Salvadorization of American Diplomacy:\" http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/29862
--on Donald Rumsfeld\'s \"Wide War\" in Latin America: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0508-20.htm
--in The Nation on Latin America \'s Left Turn: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060501/grandin
--on Hugo Chavez in The Boston Review: http://bostonreview.net/BR31.3/grandin.html
--in Harper\'s on America\'s New Imperialists: http://itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?p=134826&sid=7d5fab68f8e34a716a0beb 752a0cdd77
Greg Grandin, a recent recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, teaches Latin American history at New York University and is the author of a number of award-winning books. He has written for the New York Times, Harper\'s, The Boston Review, and The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Date: 8/14/2006 19:47:44 -0700
From: "willy"
my friends please go down to lovely caracas and the rest of the country.....talk to people from all walks....witness first hand how wonderful this roba-lution actually is......p.s. while driving down there, try to be careful to avoid the millions of potholes in the roads... ha ha.
Date: 8/13/2006 04:01:10 -0700
From: "A.L. van Delden"
Reply to Jennifer Vilchez:
Yu are right Jennifer.
We hope that in the future we can get our Country just like Cuba! (With or without the U.S blessing). Cuba is the best country in the world EVEN WITHOUT US MONEY!!!. We don\'t love money the same way as you do. We love humans instead!.
Date: 8/13/2006 03:55:08 -0700
From: "A.L. van Delden"
Hi Sarah!.
As you know. We actually LOVES the People of the United States of America. We LOVES mother earth same way you do. We LOVES human being!. Unfortunately, some people in North America is suffering a kind of \"blindness\" caused because the local government-manipulated media (TV, radio, etc)... They are making us appear like the \"bad guys\" of the movie but that is NOT TRUE!. We are just simple people fighting for our human rights!.
God Bless America!!!
Angel van Delden.
Date: 8/04/2006 22:32:32 -0700
From: "Jennifer Vilchez"
HAVE YOU ALL LOST YOUR MINDS????????? No one in this great nation (The USA, just in case there was any question) will ever be able to go home to Venezuela for fear of losing their lives! Chavez is baby Castro. How blind can ya\'ll be!?!?!?!?
Date: 8/02/2006 05:26:44 -0700
From: "ssg york"
Kill a commie for mommy!
Date: 7/31/2006 15:54:48 -0700
From: "Sarah "
hank you for your website. I am wondering if there is any sort of \"list\" to sign up on to get updates or to sign petitions or on-line actions in support of Chavez and/or the Bolivarian Revolution. I often participate in on-line actions for other causes, and would really like to participate in such actions in order to let Chavez and all Venezuelans know that not all Americans are short-sighted, selfish (or mis-informed) Bush supporters.
Also, with environmental concerns at a climax, how does Mother Earth figure into the Bolivarian Revolution?
Lastly, I am almost paranoid due to domestic spying about even visiting this website. What are your groups thoughts or concerns about our right to even say that we approve of or support Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution?
Thanks,
Sarah ......
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