@boxintro = Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific has received an appeal from the People's Democratic Party (PRD) in Indonesia to help raise funds for an Indonesian activist to join the Venezuelan Solidarity Brigade leaving Australia for Caracas this August. "News of what is happening in Venezuela is reaching Indonesia", Dita Sari, PRD chairperson explained. "Students here are starting to set up Venezuelan Solidarity groups. The example of the struggle for socialism in Venezuela is inspiring people, even with just access to what is on the internet and through the showing of videos. Imagine the impact if an Indonesian activist could return from Venezuela with direct experience of the revolution, with photos and video footage."
But Venezuela is a long way from Jakarta, and most of the PRD's members are workers, earning a dollar a day, or students, who are scarcely better off. It will cost tens of millions of rupiah to pay for a ticket and expenses from Jakarta to Caracas. "So we are appealing", Sari said,"can ASAP help us?"
ASAP has no funds at the moment, but we do have a network and sympathisers to help us raise the A$4000 minimum that is needed. Contact us at <ASAP_Max_Lane@bigpond.com> or deposit your donation into: Peoples Power Fighting Fund Account; Commonwealth Bank of Australia; BSB: 062 026 ACCOUNT NO: 1006 0743.
From Green Left Weekly, June 1, 2005.
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