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Gringa Diary
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Diary of life in the revolution in Venezuela
- Author: Tamara Pearson
- Listed in: Political Activism Politics
- Tags: education venezuela chavez socialism merida revolution
Recent Posts
Organising in the Dark
The dinning room during a black out. The woman in the fruit shop gets the mechanical scale down off the shelf. “Ahh, the electricity’s gone,” she says, and the phrase or something like it is repeated up and down the street.For the last few week...
The people behind the Bolivarian revolution
...The people you don’t see, who don’t make the press, but who without, you couldn’t say that this was a mass process, and who are a range of beings as diverse, complex and contradictory as the process itself.For example, there is S. I asked hi...
The small shock of going from Venezuela to Mexico
photo- SME meetingSuper combative and democratic electric union and a 6 year old kid in a school uniform selling porn are the two things that have stuck in my mind (or heart) so far about Mexico (in my 1st week of a 3 week vacation), and although it...
Busy Times
Wow, things have been so busy, that I’ve been fairly stressed, to be honest…and I only work part time!On Monday we had an extra-ordinary meeting of our communal council. People there are getting a bit stressed too, and a bit demotivated. The coun...
Steep slopes, Uni classes, and community forums.
*photo: cinema-forum in BelenMerida city or Merida central is kind of on top of a mountain, well a small flat one, its hard to describe, but this mountain drops down into a valley that goes back up into taller mountains on the other side of the valle...
Promoting Reading and Self Organisation of Women in the Barrios
It was Friday night, young guys and students were drinking beer outside the barrio entrance, next to the main road. We met one member of the Milagrosa barrio, and walked past the drinkers, up a steep path until we reached a blue house.A woman, almost...
Interesting to read what is happening on the ground in Venezuela. I share you mission statement and wish you the best of luck.
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