One day the cop cars will be gone and these little bikes will rule the streets.
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This was taken inside a caravan of hundreds of revolutionary motorcyclists who took to the streets moments after Hugo Chavez’s win on October 7th, 2012.
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Bronx Style
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In the two years since I left Venezuela probably the most drastic change I noticed upon my return last month was the large number of newly constructed homes built throughout Caracas as part of Mision Vivienda. According to the government th
ere have been hundreds of thousands of new units built nationwide and they are projecting to increase this number to the millions within the next 6 years. In a country where a large percentage of the population lives in poorly constructed ranchos that are at high-risk of danger due to landslides, this mission will definitely make the country a lot safer in times of natural disaster.
Furthermore, contrast this with the United States, particularly in cities like Chicago, where public housing units have been torn down by the thousands over the last decade, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and feeding a rapidly growing homeless population. -
Unite Our Blocks from the Bx to East New York!
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One day…
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The Children of 1989: Resurrecting the Venezuelan Dead
Image: Lainie Cassel, http://caracazomedia.org/
“The desperately poor ‘swarm[ed] into the forbidden cities’, as Fanon once put it, reuniting a segregated landscape if only momentarily, and in their looting of both necessities and luxuries, revealed the two-sided nature Marx associated with the commodity as well as their own intransigent demand that the last would soon be first.
Instead of one Venezuela, there were suddenly two, and the previously frozen dialectic of history was forced into motion in an instant, unleashing everything that has come since.” - George Ciccariello-MaherFULL ARTICLE available at History Workshop
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![Chavez y la bandera del orgullo“We are also clear that we are not defined solely by our sexual orientation and gender identities. This aspect of our identity is the last thing that defines us, because we are also women [and men], afro-descendants, indigenous, poor, and Chavista, but we see our struggle as part of the struggle against the capitalist system that oppresses us. This makes us different from other right-wing queer collectives that only focus on orientation and identity… Our struggle is also a class struggle. Our priority is the most oppressed people – the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans and heterosexuals who are also working-class.” - Maria Gabriela Blanco (leader of Venezuela’s first revolutionary queer collective)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbq9ztsYPG1rbvhupo1_r1_1280.jpg)
Chavez y la bandera del orgullo
“We are also clear that we are not defined solely by our sexual orientation and gender identities. This aspect of our identity is the last thing that defines us, because we are also women [and men], afro-descendants, indigenous, poor, and Chavista, but we see our struggle as part of the struggle against the capitalist system that oppresses us. This makes us different from other right-wing queer collectives that only focus on orientation and identity… Our struggle is also a class struggle. Our priority is the most oppressed people – the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans and heterosexuals who are also working-class.” - Maria Gabriela Blanco (leader of Venezuela’s first revolutionary queer collective) -
Rent Strike in Sunset Park, Brooklyn!
