Speech given by Mike Paradela, board member of the Collins Foundation / San Jose Peace & Justice Center, at the January 10 rally in San Jose Thank you for coming to this event. It is absolutely critical that we stand up to the sheer injustice that our government has been…
By Medea Benjamin and Michelle Ellner in Common Dreams, January 3, 2026 Overnight, the United States government bombed civilian and military sites across Venezuela and illegally kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. These are blatant and illegal acts of war by the Trump Administration. This act of aggression is a continuation…
By Caitlin Johnson, August 30, 2025 As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict. In an article titled “Inside Trump’s gunboat diplomacy with Venezuela,” Axios’ Marc Caputo writes that…
by Professor Jodi Dean, published in Common Dreams, July 30, 2024 Shortly before midnight on 28 July, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that — with 80 percent of the over 20 million votes counted — the trend was irreversible: Nicolás Maduro had been re-elected president of Venezuela. According to…
