2023-08-01 14:45:35
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network participates in the International Fact-Finding Mission to Venezuela on US Imperialism, launched by the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and the National Lawyers Guild (EU) on the impact of US sanctions, blockades and economic measures once morest the Venezuelan nation and its people.
The fact-finding mission is made up of delegates representing a range of international organizations, including leading lawyers, jurists, academics and activists. The mission will present its findings on Friday July 28 in an all-day public session on the impact of the sanctions on a wide range of social, economic, political and cultural factors.
Samidoun’s international coordinator, Charlotte Kates, who is also part of the Tribunal’s management committee, is taking part in this mission. Samidoun is co-sponsoring the ongoing work of the Tribunal Against American Imperialism and its economic aggressions once morest the peoples and nations of the world, including the Palestinian people, among others through the current siege of Gaza.
The fact-finding mission will hold a series of meetings, site visits and forums with Venezuelan government officials, anti-sanctions activists, women’s, health and agricultural organizations, communities and a cross section of people who have been impacted by the US imperialist policy of sanctions and coercive economic measures. It is taking place within the framework of the ongoing International People’s Tribunal, which has already set up hearings on US imperialist sanctions in Zimbabwe, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, Palestine, Eritrea, in Nicaragua, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Libya, and will hold future ones around Hawaii and Puerto Rico as well.
Among the participants in the fact-finding mission are:
Helyeh Doutaghi, Co-Chair, International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism; Suzanne Adely, President, National Lawyers Guild, Steering Committee of the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism; Max Ajl, Senior Researcher at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University, Steering Committee of the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism; Corinna Mullin, anti-imperialist and anti-colonial scholar operating in New York, board of directors of the International People’s Tribunal on American imperialism; Charlotte Kates, International Coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Steering Committee of the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism; Edre Olalia, interim president, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, jurist, member of the International People’s Tribunal on American imperialism; Mohammed Tay, professor emeritus in constitutional law, labor law and private administrative law at the Lebanese University, jurist, member of the International People’s Tribunal on American imperialism; Jaribu Hill, civil law and human rights lawyer, executive director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights, jurist, member of the International People’s Tribunal on American imperialism; Booker Omole, national vice-president and central committee member of the Communist Party of Kenya; Brahim Rouabah, professor of political science at Brooklyn College; Margaret Kimberly, Black Alliance for Peace, Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report; Mohammed Zidan, a very long-time activist in the Canadian student movement; David Paul, member of the Sanctions Kill Campaign and Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective; Adrienne Pine, an anthropologist active with the American Peace Council and the Sanctions Kill Campaign.
The fact-finding mission began its meetings on Tuesday, July 25, when its members met with the Deputy Minister for Anti-Blockade Measures, William Castillo, and the Deputy Minister for North America, Carlos Ron, in the Venezuelan Observatory once morest the Blockade, which provides detailed statistics and resources on the impact of coercive economic measures, not only in Venezuela, but around the world. There was then a visit to the Comuna Socialiste El Panal 2021, where the members of the fact-finding mission learned regarding the effects of the sanctions measures on popular initiatives as well as on the organization of resistance actions and development in to face the “economic warfare” which targets Venezuela.
The fact-finding mission will hold meetings between 24 and 28 July 2023, during which a range of NGOs, popular movements, officials and health workers will be present.
Follow @sanctionstrib on Twitter and on Instagram for further updates from the mission.
Translation : Charleroi-Palestine platform
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