| I got a scholarship to go to Venezuela next month |
[Sep. 13th, 2006|01:02 pm] |
Dear Friends,
I’ve been given a $1500 scholarship to go on a ten day study tour to Venezuela in October. The topic of the study tour is women & social activism. I have to raise another $1500 in order to go. The program has given me a work study position where they will pay me $10/hour to raise money for my trip. However, I need all the help that I can get to raise more money. Small amounts are a help too! If you can’t donate a large amount, don’t feel like you can’t give at all. Donations of even ten, fifteen or twenty dollars help me out a lot if that is all that you can spare. Please respond to this email with your mailing address if you are able to help.
“In this class/tour we will be introduced to some fundamental issues, concepts, and theories that will support our analysis of gender in Venezuela. Initial readings will offer insight into capitalism, race, colonialism, class, biopolitics, and economics. We will attempt to understand the historical conditions that have made this revolution in Venezuela possible, and to what extent it has been a revolution for women and others.
We will begin with the colonization by Spain, early enclosures, construction of race and sexual identities, capitalism, and the creation of a master race for the spread of global capitalism. Examining Venezuela through its export history (cacao, oil) will help to clarify the current legacy. Many tourists, encountering the poverty and degradation of life in Latin America (in this case, Venezuela) would conclude that this is the result of cultural deficiencies, overpopulation, corruption or protectionism. But in light of the history of the country and its relation to the “first world”, underdevelopment can be understood as a process, according to Escobar.
So, we will attempt to understand such concepts as the State, social Darwinism, and Malthusianism, and how these ideas have become hegemonic. Culture and subjectivity are some ways to resist capitalism, patriarchy, and racism.
Also, we will look at the Constitution, the Women’s Bank, and other articulations of women’s struggles in this particular revolution.”
I will be sending a form for you to make a donation to my trip. Please complete the form and send it along with your check or credit card info as soon as possible. As is says on the form, checks are made out to Global Exchange. Credit card donations are easiest to process. While making the minimum pre-printed donation to my trip you will also receive a membership to Global Exchange, which has many benefits including:
• GX quarterly newsletter and action alerts
• Priority consideration on GX Reality Tours
• Discounts at GX Fair Trade Crafts Centers
• Connections to a large network of activists
If you give $50 or more, you will receive a DVD of the study tour. Please help me out however you can. I am very excited about this once in a lifetime opportunity.
Thank you,
JoHanna Coash |
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