>>>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.
After I wrote that I had yet to receive any call for a national or nationwide action, I found info about two protests -- one in New York, the other in San Francisco -- on Wednesday, December 18 and posted messages about them. I hope you picked them up. -- Yoshie
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