lbo-talk-digest V1 #7128

[Gar Lipow]

> 
> You can join seventeen Congresspeople and numerous orgs and 
> individuals who signed a letter to protest US policy toward 
> Venezuela; see the letter and its signers and add your signature to 
> it at <http://www.narconews.com/Issue26/article562.html> (the letter 
> has also been circulated by Portside, among other listservs -- see 
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/message/3463>).
> 
> 
>>Is there someone we should write to?
> 
> 
> President George W. Bush
> J. Curtis Struble, Acting Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of 
> Western Hemisphere Affairs
> Otto J. Reich, Special Envoy to the Western Hemisphere
> Ambassador Charles Shapiro
> Dan Fisk, Deputy Assistant Secretary
> Brian Naranjo, Venezuela Desk Officer
> Ambassador John Maisto, Senior Director for Inter-American Affairs, 
> National Security Council
> Philip Chicola, Director, Office of Andean Affairs
> John Creamer, Deputy Director, Andean Affairs
> 
> You can also write to CTV, FEDECAMARAS, & corporate media in 
> Venezuela: ctv at la-ctv.com, c_ortega at la-ctv.com, mcova at la-ctv.com, 
> rpetit at la-ctv.com, pcastro at la-ctv.com, apadron at la-ctv.com, 
> jramirez at la-ctv.com, direje at fedecamaras.org.ve, 
> secgeneral at fedecamaras.org.ve, juridica at fedecamaras.org.ve, 
> intfedecamaras at telcel.net.ve, contactenos at el-nacional.com, 
> mmaita at eluniversal.com, globovision at globovision.com.
> 
> 
>>Have demonstrations been called?
> 
> 
> There were "a picket line at AFL-CIO headquarters in February" 
> (Katherine Hoyt, "Concerns Over Possible AFL-CIO Involvement in 
> Venezuela Coup Led to February Picket," 
> <http://www.labornotes.org/archives/2002/05/b.html>) and "an 
> emergency picket line on Oct. 9 at 5:00-6:30 p.m. at the Venezuelan 
> Consulate at 7 East 51st Street near Madison Ave" (@ 
> <http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/venezuela1010.php>).  I have yet to 
> receive any call for a national or nationwide action now.

Thanks Yoshie. You are valuable reszource who can always be counted on 
for this type of information. The petition is an excellent model for the 
approach to take in composing to letters to U.S. officials. The approach 
to the Venezuelan media is a little differrnt, but I think self-evident.