Popular Movements Join Hundreds of Thousands in March on Plaza Bolivar in Support of Chavez

2012-10-06 · first published in ZNet · 226 words

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Popular Movements Join Hundreds of Thousands in March on Plaza Bolivar in Support of Chavez

Znet

The hills of Caracas emptied into a thousand trickles of red tshirts, hats and horns yesterday, Oct. 4 Th , for the culmination of Chavez's presidential campaign. In La Vega and other barrios, community-run jeeps lined the streets to take passengers to the final event before the Oct. 7 th elections, the vehicles donated to the local consejos comunales as part of the government's program to enable transportation to the hardest to reach parts of the city. Driven and managed by local community members, they descended caravan style, flying red flags, weaving their way to the center of the city.

Downtown, people slipped through traffic on motorcycle or arrived by foot to gather in sections of the city, forming unity blocks to march together. One such section was the Alianza Popular Revolucionario (APR), a national network of popular movements. They gathered beneath red and black flags at the feet of a statute of Ezekiel Zamora, and included members of the community media network ANMCLA, two campesino fronts, Movimiento Frente Campesinos Bolivar and Zamora, the workers front of SURCOS, and Sexo General Diversa, a woman and LGBTQ advocacy group. Together, they represent a diverse fellowship of political and social activists, united in their desire for poder popular , or people power.