U.S. Activist Cindy Sheehan To Open World Social Forum In Caracas, Venezuela

Globovisión/AFP (Venezuela) ^ | 22 Jan 06 | Staff

[Kitten Festival]

U.S. antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan will open the World Social Forum in Caracas on Tuesday together with other political and cultural leaders from diverse nations with a mass action, organizers for the event said Sunday.

Sheehan, mother of a dead soldier in Iraq who achieved notoriety from heading various antiwar actions against the government of George W. Bush, will give a speech at a march that will kick off the World Social Forum en the Venezuelan capital, said dará Edgardo Lander, a member of the organizing committee of the event.

In the action for which the activist will assist, "she will give an antiimperialist tone, anti-war, and also exhalt life and counter war", the organizer explained in a press release.

The march that will initiate the World Social Forum in Caracas will begin on Tuesday in the afternoon from a nearby plaza to the Central University of Venezuela, to the south of Caracas, and end in the historic Paseo Los Próceres, neighboring Fort Tiuna, the main military base in the capital.

Los Próceres has historically been used for military marches in the capital of Venezuela.

Together with Sheehan, also will be political and cultural activists from "the most decisive centers" of the plant, like Afganistán, Colombia, Iraq, Palestine, so lik the United States, commented Lander.

This year the Forum will be held in three cities: Bamako (Mali), from the 19th to the 23rd of January, Caracas (Venezuela), from the 24th to the 29th, and Karachi (Pakistán), where it was postponed to the end of March due to the recent earthquakes that the nation has suffered.

Some 50,000 antiglobalization activists say they intend to participate in the Forum, which will analyze themes like the search for economic solidarity, the use of water without commercialization, the price of external debt, fair trade,

[Doctor Raoul]

Code Pink is taking some "Revolutionary Tourists" to this event. They are part of the network that facilitates Sheehan, so I'm sure they have a hand in this too.

[MoochPooch]

This reminds me of the Jewish saying:

You can tell someone by the company he keeps.
(Birds of a feather flock together?)

[penelopesire]

lgf has a link to Sheehan's latest 'writings'...lol.."Matriotism"..pretty funny stuff. Here is the link:

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0122-24.htm

[Lazamataz]

To paraphrase that old 1960's peace poster:

What if U.S. Activist Cindy Sheehan Opened A World Social Forum In Caracas.........And Nobody Came?

[TSchmereL]

Hey, Charles! It's me. Lawrence.