Hands off Venezuela! Wall Street antiwar rally

Protesters rallied on Wall Street on Nov. 22 to defend Venezuela from Trump and the Pentagon. The speak-out and march was one of many events called by the United National Antiwar Coalition against the impending war for Big Oil.

People chanted “No troops on the ground, no bombs in the air!” in front of the Trump Building at 40 Wall Street. Nearby was the world’s biggest casino, the New York Stock Exchange. It was the 62nd anniversary of the CIA’s regime change in Dallas back on Nov. 22, 1963.

Michela Martinazzi of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization chaired the rally that condemned the ICE gestapo raids and the murders in the Caribbean. Roger Wareham of the December 12th Movement reminded people that the late President Hugo Chavez provided free heating oil for poor people in the United States.

Lucy Pagoada spoke of the important Nov. 30 presidential election in Honduras. The Trump regime wants to return the Central American country to being a U.S. colony. Later that day a rally was held in Times Square to support the Libre Party candidate Rixi Moncada.

An activist told of the struggle at the old, shut-down, Brooklyn Naval Yard against the makers of drones for ICE and the Zionist regime. Other speakers included those from the Workers World Party and the Internationalist Group. 

People marched across the financial district to hold a final rally at the Oculus shopping and transportation center, which cost $4 billion to erect. That’s enough money to build 10,000 apartments for homeless families at $400,000 apiece.

While there are 100,000 homeless schoolchildren in New York City — the capital of capitalism — there are no homeless children in Venezuela. The Bolivarian Republic has built five million homes for people.

The people of Venezuela will defend their revolution. No war in Venezuela! No troops on U.S. streets!