Jorge Martín, international leader of the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign to speak in Olympia on Wednesday, May 7th at 7:30 P.M at the Olympia Free School at 610 Columbia. (Columbia and Legion, downtown Olympia)

Topic: The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, and the Present and Future of a 21st Century Left in Bolivia, Ecuador and Latin America.

Discussion to follow!

Jorge Martín, born in Barcelona, Catalonia, has been involved in the international solidarity with the Venezuelan revolution from the very beginning. He was a founding member of the international Hands Off Venezuela campaign, of which he is now the international secretary. He has written extensively on the Bolivarian revolution and has traveled around the world speaking in its defense. He has visited Venezuela often, participating in meetings and forums and holding discussions with revolutionary activists. He has been actively involved in the movement of occupied factories in Venezuela."

No Charge!

For more information, contact Peter Bohmer, bohmerp@evergreen.edu

SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.

On November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their co-worker and her teenage daughter were massacred in El Salvador. A U.S. Congressional Task Force reported that those responsible were trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

In 1990 SOA Watch began in a tiny apartment outside the main gate of Ft. Benning. While starting with a small group, SOA Watch quickly drew upon the knowledge and experience of many in the U.S. who had worked with the people of Latin America in the 1970's and 80's.