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  Venceremos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Venceremos Brigade (United States) is a group that sends annual work brigades to Cuba, in solidarity with Cuban socialism.
The Venceremos Organization (United States) is a radical group of the early 1970s which splintered from the Revolutionary Union (which became the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA).
Venceremos (Venezuela) was a radical direct-action group that undertook attacks against American targets in the 1990s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venceremos   (166 words)

  
 Venceremos Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Venceremos was initially a Chicano political group centered on the San Francisco peninsula.
Franklin's version of the reason for this split is that it had to do with racial issues: originally, Venceremos had been a Chicano organization, while the RU had a policy of suggesting to prospective fl members that they join the Black Panthers instead.
Venceremos advocated armed self-defense of the citizenry, community control of the police, and reform of the prison system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venceremos_Organization   (320 words)

  
 The SLA-Venceremos Connection
The Venceremos Organization (as it was called during congressional hearings in the seventies, to distinguish it from the Venceremos Brigade) provided most of the members and support for the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Venceremos was founded by H. Bruce Franklin, an assistant professor at Stanford, a former military intelligence officer and loudmouthed ultra-radical Maoist.
Venceremos was responsible for the 1972 ambush-escape of convict Ronald Beaty from Chino state prison.
www.flatlandbooks.com /venceremos.html   (4426 words)

  
 VENCEREMOS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Venceremos, spagnolo per sormonteremo, o conquisteremo, eravamo un gruppo politico radicale formato in 1971 dal professor H. Bruce Franklin e vari membri dell'università di Stanford del capitolo di zona della baia de San Francisco dell'unione rivoluzionaria.
Venceremos ha sostenuto il self-defense munito del citizenry, il controllo della Comunità della polizia e la riforma del sistema carcerario.
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.facteri.com /wiki/it/ve/Venceremos.htm   (134 words)

  
 Venceremos Brigade: Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In 1969, a coalition of young people formed the Venceremos ("We Shall Overcome") Brigade, as a means of showing solidarity with the Cuban Revolution by working side by side with Cuban workers and challenging U.S. policies towards Cuba, including the economic blockade and our government’s ban on travel to the island.
The 37th contingent of the Venceremos Brigade will be in Cuba in the summer of 2006.
Although exact dates have not been determined, the trip is 2 weeks long, and we anticipate being in Cuba in the first half of July.
www.venceremosbrigade.org   (266 words)

  
 www.markdanner.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Colonel Monterrosa was mortified by Radio Venceremos as well, but, unlike his colleagues, he had determined, in his rage and frustration, to do something about it.
Here, dug into a rock niche half a dozen feet underground, was the "studio" of Radio Venceremos, which consisted of a small transmitter, an unwieldy gasoline generator, assorted tape recorders, microphones, and other paraphernalia, and a flexible antenna that snaked its way up through a forest of brush.
On Monday, December 7th, the young men and women of Radio Venceremos began doing what they had practiced many times: rapidly dismantling the components, loading the generator aboard a mule, and hoisting the transmitter, the antenna, and the other equipment on one another's backs.
www.markdanner.com /newyorker/120693_The_Massacre2.htm   (2912 words)

  
 Venceremos Brigade Members Defy US Travel Ban Against Cuba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
During the meeting, the visitors to Cuba made a public statement opposing restrictions on travel to the island, citing these as new and presidentially approved maneuvers by the US government directed against Cuba.
It was stated in intimidating letters from federal authorities which some of the travelers have received that they could be individually fined more than $7,600 for coming to the island.
Venceremos Brigade members arrived on July 2 and will return to the United States on Sunday.
www.periodico26.cu /english/coverage/venceremosbrigade.htm   (319 words)

  
 Martinez2
In the early 1960s, as a young editor at Simon and Schuster, I was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Congress's witch-hunting cabal.
The Brigade has also reflected the contradictions and conflicts around racial issues that exist in the U.S. In their book Venceremos Brigade, about the first two contingents of 1960-1970, editors Sandra Levinson and Carol Brightman wrote at length about constant struggles against the racism that whites on the Brigade brought with them from home.
Venceremos Brigade also describes women's struggle against sexism on the Brigade in 1969-1970.
www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/Martinez2.htm   (3732 words)

  
 Venceremos Brigade
NEW YORK - July 6 - The 35th Anniversary Contingent of the Venceremos Brigade will visit Cuba from July 4 - 19 without a U.S. Treasury Department license in order to challenge and oppose U.S. government restrictions on travel to Cuba.
The Venceremos Brigade is an educational work project that has sent over 8,000 U.S. citizens to Cuba since 1969.
Copies of the Venceremos Brigade Cuba Travel Challenge statement are available to the press.
www.commondreams.org /news2004/0706-10.htm   (557 words)

  
 Bush Administration Targets Hundreds of Cuba Travelers:
Members of the Venceremos Brigade and the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravans, who have done nothing more than travel to an island less than 90 miles away, have been issued official letters demanding information and threatening more than 200 travelers with fines totaling more than $1.5 million dollars.
Since 1969, the Venceremos (We Shall Overcome) Brigade has been the means through which thousands of Americans, especially young people, have traveled to Cuba.
People who travel with the Venceremos Brigade and Pastors for Peace believe that citizens in a democracy must be informed about all issues which affect their lives - including foreign policy issues - and travel is key to becoming and staying informed.
www.iacenter.org /Cuba/vencer_govattack-06.htm   (719 words)

  
 Venceremos Organization - China-related Topics VE-VH - China-Related Topics
The Venceremos Organization was a Maoist group in the United States that believed in an immediate guerrilla war.
The group was formed as a split from the Revolutionary Union in about 1970 and began operations, but the US government targeted it as part of the COINTELPRO campaign, arresting many members and driving others into hiding.
The leader of the Venceremos Organization was H. Bruce Franklin.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Venceremos_Organization   (170 words)

  
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Venceremos supported the victory of the North Vietnamese, and voiced its commitment to violence to support the Communist side in the war.
Each Venceremos member was required to own four specific types of guns.
All jails and prisons must be opened and inmates liberated.” An outgrowth of Venceremos was the notorious Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) terrorist group that kidnapped Patricia Hearst in 1974.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=2207   (967 words)

  
 publish.nyc.indymedia.org | Venceremos Brigade Returns from Cuba; Openly Breaks Travel Ban
The Venceremos Brigade returned to the US on August 1st after spending two weeks in Cuba, learning about Cuban society and its socialist system.
While in Cuba, we in the Venceremos Brigade as a whole met with several mass organizations and groups, including women's groups, local community organizations, youth groups, representatives who explained the education system, social work education, penal system, 'afro-cuban' heritage and experience, hip-hop culture, government and union structures, defense issues, and other presentations.
We also need to continue to organize to free the Cuban Five political prisoners, who committed no crime against the American government and who only tried to protect their island from terrorism only to be thrown into isolation for 18 months as part of their exaggerate sentences.
nyc.indymedia.org /en/2005/08/55084.html   (1322 words)

  
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On its first anniversary, Radio Venceremos said: Radio Venceremos, the guerilla broadcasting station of El Salvador, completed one year of transmission on January 10, 1982, sharing that anniversary with the heroic general offensive of January 10, out of which it was born.
Radio Venceremos was there with commentary, news and interviews, carrying the details of victories in the diplomatic field and of gains in the balance of forces made for negotiation.
And the offensive continues in the political, military and diplomatic fields with tremendous complexity, as it seeks to triumph over the resistance of those who oppose democratizating the country and political debate, and it searches for pluralism and the collapse of outmoded policies that impede the peace process.
www.tulane.edu /~latinlib/RESTRICTED/Radio_Venceremos_Weekly_Report/1990_0121.txt   (2469 words)

  
 Venceremos Brigade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
All three groups have traveled to Cuba without a "license" because they are opposed to the travel restrictions and do not accept the US government's right to stop them from traveling to Cuba.
The Venceremos Brigade arrived in Cuba on July 4 and has spent nearly two weeks in Cuba, working in both Santiago de Cuba and Havana provinces, and traveling across the island.
The Brigade is a diverse group from around the US with members ranging in age from 16 to 73, and from many ethnic and racial backgrounds.
www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/newsprint.cgi?file=/news2004/0715-02.htm   (465 words)

  
 THFCM: 2001 Youth Group Public Service Recognition Award
Venceremos is a youth led HIV / AIDS prevention and education program in service to the community of Leominster through the Spanish American Center, Inc. The Health Foundation first established the Youth Group Public Service Recognition Award to celebrate and encourage distinctive, volunteer service by youth working to improve their communities.
Venceremos means "we shall win" in Spanish, and indeed they have won the admiration of the community’s parents and leaders.
Latimer proudly noted that the youth members of Venceremos and all of the former members of the group have continued to make healthy choices for themselves in preventing HIV and teen pregnancy.
www.hfcm.org /new.asp?id=86   (409 words)

  
 Venceremos Brigade Research Collection
The Venceremos Brigade is a national organization whose objective is to increase awareness of the merits of the Castro regime in Cuba.
This collection consists of the materials used to educate members and represents a multi-faceted involvement in local, international, social, political and religious affairs.
The researcher should note that a considerable proportion of the materials are termed "miscellaneous", but files within each general category are in alphabetical order, to provide easier access.
www.lib.depaul.edu /speccoll/guides/brigade.htm   (142 words)

  
 Venceremos
Venceremos was a radical political group formed in 1971 by Stanford University Professor H.
The group took its name from the battle cry of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a revolutionary communist leader from Argentina and high ranking member of Fidel Castro's communist regime in Cuba.
To these ends, the group's members engaged in a number of legitimate activities, such as working to educate prisoners and defend war protesters.
www.fastload.org /ve/Venceremos.html   (162 words)

  
 YURI KOCHIYAMA - THE TRIP TO CUBA: The 19th Venceremos Brigade
The Venceremos Brigade, a left wing solidarity organization, developed work brigades to give grassroots organizers and activists an opportunity to go to Cuba to work together with the people there and experience first hand their way of living.
The finale of the marchers was the impressive regular army of Cuba, marching in clipped cadence, and the heroic survivors of the Moncada Barracks struggle.
As the Nineteenth Venceremos Brigade, we felt proud to be part of this historical march, which is well known in the states as former Brigadistas have carried on word of this event through the years.
www.walterlippmann.com /yuri.html   (1804 words)

  
 The Trojan Horse
Monterrosa hated Radio Venceremos, both because it denounced his war crimes and because it had operated for years within territory that his soldiers claimed to control.
The day after the "capture" of their transmitter was one of stressful waiting for the FMLN forces and especially for the people of Radio Venceremos.
It was painful to have to skip their nightly broadcast, and comrades from around El Salvador and abroad wondered if the station had really been silenced at last as the government-controlled radio and press triumphantly claimed.
www.math.dartmouth.edu /~lamperti/Trojan_Horse.html   (1827 words)

  
 Venceremos Brigade Travel Challengers Gear Up for July 17 Peace Bridge Return from Cuba;
Members of the Venceremos Brigade have traveled to Cuba in violation of the US travel ban, and in defense of their long-recognized right to travel.
The Venceremos Brigade has traveled to Cuba since 1969.
The group has never requested a license to travel and rejects the concept of a license for US people to be able to see Cuba.
www.globalexchange.org /update/press/4043.html   (534 words)

  
 A Dishonorable Dartmouth Degree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cole was actively involved in the Communist front the Venceremos Brigade and was the director of the organization's American arm, the Committee to Stop U.S. Aggression against Cuba.
In a speech to Venceremos Brigadiers, Rizo declared, “...the first thing that a U.S. revolutionary must be convinced of is precisely the fact that he does come from a decadent society, that he comes from a society that must be destroyed....”
Cole was one of those in attendance, as a representative of the Venceremos Brigade.
www.dartreview.com /issues/7.8.99/cole.html   (1151 words)

  
 Join the 37th Contingent of the Venceremos Brigade!!! Applications now available for July 2-17, 2006, work brigade to ...
Now is your opportunity to join the Venceremos Brigade's travel challenge, to see Cuba, and to defend your constitutional right to travel.
The Venceremos Brigade has never requested a license from the U.S. government to travel to Cuba.
All Venceremos Brigade travel challengers attend legal and other preparation sessions prior to the trip.
www.iacenter.org /Cuba/cuba_venceramos06.htm   (455 words)

  
 Whole Earth: Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos
From a damp cave in the mountains of Morazán in El Salvador, the legendary FMLN Radio Venceremos ("We shall win") battled rats, army offensives, and broken hearts in order to broadcast its daily revolutionary program at 6 p.m.
The editing is rough—tales overlap and are confusingly attributed—but the book is nevertheless a captivating insiders' chronicle of radio's starring role in the revolution.
Not only because a bomb might drop on you, but because the responsibility weighs on your shoulders....You've got to choose every word with care, because you know the next day the Voice of America is going to reply.
www.wholeearthmag.com /ArticleBin/353.html   (408 words)

  
 36th Venceremos Brigade Arrives in Cuba in Defiance of Bush Travel Ban; Will Challenge Travel Restrictions at Border ...
Fifty-three members of the 36th contingent of the Venceremos Brigade arrived in Cuba today, in defiance of US law which forbids almost all travel by US citizens to Cuba.
This is the 36th consecutive year that the Venceremos Brigade has traveled to Cuba without asking for permission or a license to travel.
If the US government attempts to impose any fines or other penalties on the members of the group, the Brigade intends to fight legal and political battles until all restrictions on travel to Cuba are lifted.
www.iacenter.org /venceramos05.htm   (691 words)

  
 Interview with Daniel Solis: Betamax and Super-8 in revolutionary El Salvador by Julia Lesage
Solis: Radio Venceremos began audio-visual production with compañeros from the film collective, Zero á la Izquierda (Zero to the Left), which had made various short subjects and the feature-length, DECISION TO WIN.
Also, up to that point Radio Venceremos had provided a lot of cinematic material for others but had not taken on all the film work integrally, in the sense of being able to edit and distribute.
In the whole Radio Venceremos system there are many women, including the director of Radio Venceremos, Commandant Luisa.
ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC29folder/SolisElSalvadorInt.html   (6580 words)

  
 Salem State College - Cuba 2000
I was particularly interested in the most recent addition to the Museum, the exhibit “Venceremos!” Venceremos!
Since the museums receive their funding from the government the history portrayed is the history the government wants the museum to portray.
As far as exhibit design goes, the exhibit Venceremos differed drastically from what one would expect to see in a national museum in the United States.
www.lrc.salemstate.edu /cuba/venceremos.htm   (1285 words)

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