FW: U.S Congress Approves New Sanctions - Take 30 Seconds to Ask Your MP to Support Venezuela!

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Matthew Willgress

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Dec 17, 2014, 10:27:11 AM12/17/14

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:56:04 +0100
To: mattheww...@hotmail.co.uk
From: in...@venezuelasolidarity.co.uk
Subject: U.S Congress Approves New Sanctions - Take 30 Seconds to Ask Your MP to Support Venezuela!

Hello Matthew

In recent days, the U.S Congress has passed sanctions against Venezuela, with President Obama expected to sign. This follows the decision of the Senate to pass sanctions & the Obama Administration itself indicating fresh support for sanctions against Venezuela.

Therefore - if you have not been able to do so already - we are writing to ask you to take 30 seconds, using our handy online tool here, to ask your MP to add their name to a statement against the threat of US sanctions.

You will be pleased to know that Latin America is responding strongly to these latest moves against Venezuela's elected Government, which President Maduro has argued are part of an "economic blockade" against the country. The ALBA bloc of countries has issued a strong statement arguing that, "The 'Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014' is a smokescreen that paves again the way to destabilization in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, opening the gates to an unconstitutional move against the legal and legitimately elected Government of President Nicolas Maduro." At ALBA's tenth anniversary celebrations this week, President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua has responded President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua has responded to the proposed sanctions by saying, “We have to make our own lists of terrorist states and on our lists the Yankee Empire must be in first place,” telling press that U.S Senator Marco Rubio & Representative Ileana Ros–Lehtinen (who proposed the sanction) had been banned from Nicaraguan territory, adding that.“Just like they [U.S. officials] have their lists, we can make our own lists in Latin America of those who shouldn’t enter our country.”

We now need your help to ensure that as many MPs as possible sign. You can help oppose those seeking illegal ‘regime change’ and support Venezuela’s self-determination by lobbying your MP today.

We know from the MPs who have added their name so far that being asked by constituents to sign is a key reason for support, so your support in asking your MP to sign is absolutely vital

Best wishes and many thanks for lobbying your MP in support of Venezuela,

Venezuela Solidarity Campaign.

PS: Please find the text of the statement we are asking MPs to sign below. Current political signatories include:

Dave Anderson MP,
William Bain MP,
Roberta Blackman-Woods MP,
Paul Blomfield MP,
Katy Clark MP,
Jeremy Corbyn MP,
Mike Crockart MP,
Jim Cunningham MP,
Nic Dakin MP,
Ian Davidson MP,
John Denham MP,
Rt. Hon Frank Dobson MP,
Brian Donohoe MP,
Jim Dowd MP,
Mark Durkan MP,
Neil Findlay MSP,
John Finnie MSP,
Paul Flynn MP,
George Galloway MP,
Andrew George MP,
Lord Anthony Gifford QC,
Sheila Gilmore MP,
Roger Godsiff MP,
Tom Greatrex MP,
Nia Griffith MP,
Rt. Hon. Peter Hain MP,
David Hamilton MP,
Mike Hancock MP,
Mark Hendrick MP,
Stephen Hepburn MP,
Cara Hilton MSP,
Kate Hoey MP,
Jim Hood MP,
Kelvin Hopkins MP,
George Howarth MP,
Glenda Jackson MP,
Cathy Jamieson MP,
Bethan Jenkins AM (Welsh Assembly Member,)
Darren Johnson AM (London Assembly,)
Rt. Hon. Sir Gerald Kaufman MP,
Jean Lambert MEP,
Ian Lavery MP,
John Leech MP,
Alex Lowley MSP,
Elfyn Llwyd MP,
John McDonnell MP,
Catherine McKinnell MP,
Siobhan McMahon MSP,
Anne McTaggart MSP,
Graeme Morrice MP,
Grahame Morris MP,
Ian Murray MP,
Lord Martin O’Neill of Clackmannan,
Fiona O’Donnell MP,
Sandra Osborne MP,
Albert Owen MP,
Jenny Rathbone AM (Welsh Assembly Member,)
Lord Nic Rea,
Linda Riordan MP,
RT. Hon. Dame Joan Ruddock MP,
John Robertson MP,
Alex Rowley MSP,
Lindsey Roy MP CBE,
Barry Sheerman MP,
Rt. Hon. Andrew Smith MP,
Elaine Smith MSP,
Jean Urquhart MSP,
David Ward MP,
Sandra White MSP,
Hywel Williams MP,
Mark Williams MP,
Chris Williamson MP
Mike Wood MP

Statement Text: We the undersigned join Latin America's main regional bodies such as the Organisation of American States (by 29 votes to 3) and UNASUR (Union of South American nations) in both condemning the ongoing wave of anti-democratic violence from extreme elements of Venezuela's right-wing opposition in recent weeks, whose declared aim ('La Salida') is the ousting of the elected government, and in supporting the calls of Venezuela's elected President Nicolas Maduro for peace and dialogue.We agree with the OAS in its call for "respect for the principle of non intervention in the internal affairs of states and its commitment to the defense of democratic institutionalism of the state of law in agreement with the OAS Charter and international law," and therefore disagree with all external interference, including through any sanctions on Venezuela as proposed by some members of the US congress.We urge all parties internationally to support the efforts of UNASUR, through its commission on this issue, in working for peace and dialogue in Venezuela.