Reporting on Revolution - Venezuela

Reporting on Revolution - Venezuela

When: 6pm Tuesday 9th September
Where: Manning Clarke 6, ANU

Kiraz Janicke has just spent 12 months living in Venezuela reporting on the revolution for the independent news website Venezuelanalysis.com and the alternative newspaper Green Left Weekly.

As a journalist in Venezuela, Kiraz covered topics ranging from the Venezuelan economy, Venezuela's ties with other Latin American countries, Indigenous rights, food scarcity problems, workers' rights and, more recently, the nationalisation of the large Sidor steel company.

Working as an independent journalist, Kiraz obtained a very different perspective on the revolution to that being pushed by the corporate media.

"If you only read the mainstream media, you would think that Venezuela is run by a dictator who suppresses democracy and violates human rights. But the opposite is true." Kiraz said

"Contrary to media reports, a widespread social transformation is underway in Venezuela, led by a revolutionary government elected by the people with the aim of eradicating poverty and inequality by giving power to the poor.

"In less than a decade, the revolution has already achieved free education at all levels for all citizens, free healthcare for 17 million Venezuelans who never previously had access, and millions of people have become direct participants at the grassroots of a radically new political process."

"This process has given confidence to the poor majority across Latin America that not only is a better world necessary, it is possible."

Kiraz will visit Canberra on Tuesday the 9th of September to present eyewitness reports on Venezuela's revolution and the wider rebellion it has inspired throughout Latin America.

The tour is being organised by Resistance and is supported by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network. Phone Farida on 0412 109 160 for more information.

To read Kiraz's articles visit
www.venezuelanalysis.com and www.greenleft.org.au