Dear John,

Last month we sent you a message about how we need to keep up the pressure on the Biden administration regarding Venezuela. Here’s one of the ways we plan on doing just that:

Partnering with the DSA International Committee, we’ve invited three Venezuelan feminists to a six-city tour of the U.S. to meet with elected officials and local communities. Mónica M., Anggie H. and Yolimar M. will visit New York, Washington, Durham, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles to speak about life under sanctions and resistance to hybrid war. 

They’re bringing a viewpoint we never hear in the U.S. and we need your help to make it happen: please donate to help fund their visit!

Mónica is a professor and arts administrator who writes a weekly column and studies Afro-Venezuelan traditions. Anggie is a Wayuu activist and educator on Indigenous, sexual and reproductive rights. Yolimar is an industrial engineer and is part of the internationalist brigade of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Venezuela. 

Please donate and spread the word about this fundraiser and delegation. We’ll keep you posted on specific events where you can meet the Venezuelan women. If you don’t live in one of the six cities they’re visiting, we’ll livestream some of the events so you can follow along.

And let’s keep the pressure up on the Biden administration. Last month he White House sent officials to speak with President Maduro to discuss oil, sanctions and other topics. Let’s make sure that something good comes out of the meeting. 

Tell President Biden to lift the sanctions, restore diplomatic relations and free Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who is being held in U.S. prison on trumped-up charges!

This is the most hopeful we’ve been in a long time that the U.S. will finally begin ending its economic war on Venezuela. It will still be a struggle though - Florida politicians and regime change enthusiasts are raising a stink. It’s up to us to be louder than them. 

In radical solidarity,
Leonardo, Michelle, Teri, Medea and the entire CODEPINK team