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Visit to Tiuna el Fuerte Art and Media Space

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The delegation went to Tiuna el Fuerte, an endogenous cultural zone, that teaches kids from the barrio basic BBoy, video, and art skills. Their project is made from reclaimed materials repurposed to suit their needs.

Tiuna el Fuerte sits at the base of El Valle, a barrio in Caracas
The space is made from recycled materials, most of it built out of containers
Inside their studio, insulated with egg cartons.
The delegation learning about Tiuna el Fuerte’s work.
A porthole from the studio looking out on the city.
The stage and BBoy practice area
The office.
The reclaimed piece of parking lot Tiuna made into a cultural zone.

Occupation: From the workplace to the home

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Today, the delegation visited two different sites in Venezuela. The first was a worker-fun Coca Cola factory. The second was an occupied apartment building. The boom and bust cycle of the 1980’s left many of Caracas’s downtown apartments abandoned.  People without homes took them over, and run a cooperative housing association in the unfinished highrises.

Kids play outside the occupied neighborhood of La Piedrita.
Grafitti makes connections between revolutionaries historic and more recent.
A worker run meeting discussing the factories operations.
Workers line up to register for food.
Socialist slogans in front of the Coca Cola factory.
An occupied apartment building run by the houseless group “Sin Techos.”
Instide the mulit-story apartment building.
Collectively agreed upon rules for people who live in the building.

Venezuelan “Peace Bases” to Counter U.S. Military Buildup in Colombia

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Mérida, August 28th 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) — In a movement to counter the expansion of the United States military presence on Colombian bases, Colombian and Venezuelan civil society organizations and government officials are collaborating to organize spaces of binational reconciliation called “peace bases.” Local, state, and national elected officials, consuls, immigrant organizations, community councils, and everyday citizens have participated in the founding of Venezuela’s first peace bases this month. The bases turn public spaces into forums where Colombians and Venezuelans discuss peaceful solutions to the armed conflict in Colombia, which has raged for four decades and continues to affect neighboring Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama, the rest of Latin America, and the United States.