Enjoy socializing, coffee and bagels in person! (Also available on Zoom and Facebook Live).

Especially enjoy hearing from Tom Burke and Cassia Lahman regarding the important case of Alex Saab on Zoom!

Can’t make it in person, join us via Zoom, go to our Facebook event: Coffee Hour “Free Alex Saab” for the link or watch it on livestream from our Facebook page.

Masks will be required and can be available at the center. The coffee hour will feature the important case of Alex Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat who was arrested in Cape Verde in June 2020 while he was en route to Iran for a trade deal that would help Venezuela in the amidst of the ongoing U.S. blockade.

While being detained in Cape Verde, the U.S. forced him on a plane in October 2021, The U.S. ignored the court ruling and international law by illegally extraditing him to the U.S. in June 2021. to face trial in Miami.

The United States is charging him with conspiracy to launder money. His trial continues to be postponed. Venezuela has struggled to provide its people with food and other basic necessities because of the U.S. sanctions, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. kidnapping of a Venezuelan diplomat shows the U.S. empire’s efforts to harass and sanction Venezuela knows no bounds. Speakers by Zoom:

Tom Burke – He is a labor and Antiwar activist, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Organizational Secretary, recently returned from United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) 5th Congress in Venezuela.

Cassia Lahman – She is a public-school teacher in South Florida and longtime activist in the Florida anti-war movement. She cofounded the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine in 2009 and was a lead organizer with UF Students for a Democratic Society, which organized against racial violence and discrimination on campus. She co-founded the South Florida anti-war group People’s Opposition to War, Imperialism, and Racism in 2012, which has been organizing against U.S.-led and U.S.- funded aggression throughout the world, including Palestine, Syria, Iran, and Venezuela, as well as the annual March to Close Guantanamo Bay at the gates of U.S. Southern Command. Cassia has served on the United National Antiwar Coalition administrative committee for six years.

To join via Zoom, please register here.