* From Venezuela, a group of social organizations and human rights, students and academic groups as well as different individuals, launch this call for a campaign to defend the right to protest, which today is being systematically violated by the government of Hugo Chávez. This document was originally published in Spanish in El Libertario newspaper, # 57 (www.nodo50.org/ellibertario).

* El Libertario, the Venezuelan anarchist newspaper, denounce the assassination of Mijail Martinez as the latest chapter in the Chavez government's attack against base-level, autonomous, revolutionary and dissident organisations.

* The latest demonstration of political criminalization of autonomous social movements by the Venezuelan government is exposed by Rafael Uzcategui, a member of the anarchist collective El Libertario.

* The editorial collective of El Libertario denounces the criminal attack that took place on October 13, 2009 against the Yukpa people in the Sierra of Perija in Western Venezuela, resulting in two indigenous persons dead and several wounded. The following article -about the tactic and strategy of "Revolutionary Venezuelan" Ethnocide- describes the events.

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Notes from a blogger in the UK about police practices there...

* El Libertario, at  http://www.nodo50.org/ellibertario has joined this campaign and we're trying to publicize this initiative in an attempt to confront the hired killers that are taking the lives of labor activists in Venezuela.

* After taking part in a demonstration for lack of job security in 2006, 14 workers of contractor "Transportes Camila de SIDOR" could be sentenced to 5 to 10 years in jail.