Hours After Maduro Is Kidnapped, CPI Hits the Streets!
On Saturday, January 3rd, after the United States kidnapped Venezuela’s elected and internationally recognized President, CPI members swung into action for emergency mobilizations.
Within hours of Maduro being taken, CPI members hit the streets around the country.
In Davenport, Iowa, longtime CPI member Gavin Lockhart was featured on local TV saying: “We need to be America First, not take sides in Venezuela,” adding in his remarks to KWQC the U.S. government should focus on housing homeless veterans, providing healthcare, funding education, and fixing crumbling roads and bridges rather than spending on the military and operations against Venezuela.
In Minneapolis, Penny Arcos hit the streets with a bullhorn and a homemade sign, shouting “Hands Off Venezuela! Hands Off Maduro!” near a bus stop at a major intersection. She received a very positive response from commuters and others in the downtown area who agreed that destabilizing another South American country was not in the interests of American working families.
Timothy Williams took to the streets in South Carolina with a homemade sign and received a lot of honks and support.
Caleb Maupin went to New York City’s Foley Square Federal Courthouse and later to the protests organized by some of the fringe, deceitful woke leftists who refused to build a serious anti-war coalition, held in Times Square. Caleb interviewed a few protesters.
Later, Caleb confronted anti-Maduro Venezuelans who were celebrating the attack that killed scores of their own people: “You’re celebrating the death of your own people! You should be ashamed of yourself!” he thundered. “Americans like me are going to die on the streets of Venezuela!” The video of Caleb confronting the Venezuelan exiles was translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Turkish, shown on TV across the world, and received widespread praise on social media.
Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the Uhuru Movement emphasized that while it is important to protest the moment, the only thing that will prevent imperialist atrocities like this is to build and organize. CPI Founder and Director Caleb Maupin echoed Omali’s call, emphasizing that we shouldn’t get trapped in just being reactive, and must build a movement to win justice for working families.
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