Saturday, August 14, 2004

Tomorrow's Referendum Vote in Venezuela

This is the first article that explained to me just what the hell is going on down there...

from The Guardian
Chávez has understood the potential power of women as primary carers. Four months of continuous lobbying got women the constitution they wanted. Among its anti-sexist, anti-racist provisions, it recognizes women's unwaged caring work as economically productive, entitling housewives to social security. No surprise then that in 2002 women of African and indigenous descent led the millions who descended from the hills to reverse the coup (by a mainly white elite and the CIA), thereby saving their constitution, their president, their democracy, their revolution.

3 comments:

Sheryl said...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/39955000/rm/_39955596_venez05_marshall15_vi.ram

J.R. Boyd said...

Hmmm, for some reason this link crashes my Realplayer...

Sheryl said...

Wasn't me!!! I'm innocent!!! I think Hillary did it. She's always up to no good. Besides, she's not here to defend herself.

If it wasn't her, then it was definitely Barbara. And she has the computer skills to sabatoge your computer. Whereas Hillary is probably too stupid to do something like that.