V for Venezuela
We leave in 14 Days! I think we are ready for the adventure. We have made some positive contacts. We are in touch with Venezuela IMC (CMI Venezuela) they are not linked on the global Indymedia network yet but they have many plans for covering the elections. We are hosting a movie and dinner night as a fundraiser for CMI Venezuela. Those who can come for the showing of "The Revolution will not be televised" and a yummy Indian food dinner please do. We want to contribute video equipment and money in order to see one of our newest Indymedia center get off the ground at such a critical time. Check out Cowboy Charlies website in our links. He has many great articles and he is turning out to be a wonderful connection for us. He is helping us to find a place to stay while in Caracas AND he is picking us up from the airport! We have also made connections with the a media delegation going from NYC to Caracas the week before the elections. We will be working with a group called US - Venezuela Bolivarian Exchange Network (usven.net). they have a youth delegation as well that Zarha may be able to participate in. She would be the youngest in the group the others are 16yrs and up.
I was in Venezuela for the World Social Forum as a sign language interpreter for a group from Ohio called the Deaf/Deaf Blind committee on Human Rights. I remember drifting off to sleep one night while in Caracas after a long exciting day of meeting deaf Venezuelans and sign language interpreters . As I lay on the floor of the community center in the barrio that was generously hosting our delegation I thought about the differences between the signs for Venezuela and the United States. Venezuela is signed like a peace sign shaking and zig zagging down in front of the body. United States is signed with fingers interlaced and circling around the front of the body. Like a fence that keeps others out while keeping the signer locked in. I thought about the different feeling and meaning of these signs and then decided I wanted to sign the peace sign more and break through the fences that have become endemic to the United states. Fences for prisoners and elite gated communities, fences around US corporate owned sweatshops and the White house. Fences around HUD housing and suburban back yards. I want to break down and break through fences. I want to sign peace more and fences less. This may seem like a strange reason to leave one country and go to another, but it does sums it up.
We leave in 14 Days! I think we are ready for the adventure. We have made some positive contacts. We are in touch with Venezuela IMC (CMI Venezuela) they are not linked on the global Indymedia network yet but they have many plans for covering the elections. We are hosting a movie and dinner night as a fundraiser for CMI Venezuela. Those who can come for the showing of "The Revolution will not be televised" and a yummy Indian food dinner please do. We want to contribute video equipment and money in order to see one of our newest Indymedia center get off the ground at such a critical time. Check out Cowboy Charlies website in our links. He has many great articles and he is turning out to be a wonderful connection for us. He is helping us to find a place to stay while in Caracas AND he is picking us up from the airport! We have also made connections with the a media delegation going from NYC to Caracas the week before the elections. We will be working with a group called US - Venezuela Bolivarian Exchange Network (usven.net). they have a youth delegation as well that Zarha may be able to participate in. She would be the youngest in the group the others are 16yrs and up.
I was in Venezuela for the World Social Forum as a sign language interpreter for a group from Ohio called the Deaf/Deaf Blind committee on Human Rights. I remember drifting off to sleep one night while in Caracas after a long exciting day of meeting deaf Venezuelans and sign language interpreters . As I lay on the floor of the community center in the barrio that was generously hosting our delegation I thought about the differences between the signs for Venezuela and the United States. Venezuela is signed like a peace sign shaking and zig zagging down in front of the body. United States is signed with fingers interlaced and circling around the front of the body. Like a fence that keeps others out while keeping the signer locked in. I thought about the different feeling and meaning of these signs and then decided I wanted to sign the peace sign more and break through the fences that have become endemic to the United states. Fences for prisoners and elite gated communities, fences around US corporate owned sweatshops and the White house. Fences around HUD housing and suburban back yards. I want to break down and break through fences. I want to sign peace more and fences less. This may seem like a strange reason to leave one country and go to another, but it does sums it up.
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