Embassy Protection Collective

US Government Drops Prosecution Of Max Blumenthal After Jailing Journalist On False Charges

December 8, 2019 Ben Norton, The Grayzone Project Resist! Embassy Protection Collective, Max Blumenthal, Media, US Regime Change, Venezuela

The US government has dropped its bogus charge of “simple assault” against journalist Max Blumenthal, after having him arrested on a 5-month-old warrant and jailed for nearly two days. The Grayzone has learned that Secret Service call logs recorded during the alleged incident were either not kept or destroyed. The mysteriously missing evidence included print documents and radio recordings that may have exposed collusion between Secret Service officers operating under the auspices of the US State Department and violent right-wing hooligans in an operation to besiege peace activists stationed inside Venezuela’s embassy in Washington, DC.

Embassy Protection Defense Committee Calls On Trump Administration To Drop All Charges

August 21, 2019 From The Embassy Defense Protection Committee Resist! Embassy Protection Collective, US Regime Change, Venezuela

The newly formed Embassy Protectors Defense Committee created in response to the arrest and bogus charges leveled by the Trump Administration against the last four remaining activists of the Embassy Protective Collective that occupied the Venezuela Embassy for 37 days, has launched an international campaign to demand that the Trump administration drop all Federal charges against the protectors.

Monroeism Is The Other Side Of Jim Crow, The Side Facing South

August 18, 2019 Frederick B. Mills, Council On Hemispheric Affairs Educate! Colonialism, Embassy Protection Collective, Monore Doctrine

This Forum of São Paulo of Washington DC marks a significant step forward in building North-South solidarity on behalf of economic and social justice throughout the hemisphere and respect for the sovereign equality of nations. The Forum comes on the heels of the defense of the Venezuelan Embassy by the Embassy Protection Collective. It takes place amid growing nationwide direct action by the NeverAgainIsNow movement and allies to shut down the concentration camps and restore dignified treatment of Central American refugees...

CBP Agents Interrogate US Citizen, Seize His Phone, After Venezuela Solidarity Trip

August 4, 2019 Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone Project. Educate! Border Patrol, Embassy Protection Collective, Human Rights, Venezuela

A US citizen has told The Grayzone that the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service detained him on his way home from Venezuela and violated his privacy. Sergio Lazo Torrez, a 31 year-old Nicaraguan-American, said the CBP forced him to open his cellphone, grilled him about his political beliefs, and demanded information about his contact with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Torrez was returning to the Washington, DC area on the evening of August 2 when he was detained by CBP at Dulles International Airport in Vienna, Virginia. He had just participated in a week-long tour of Venezuela with over a dozen US citizens, including this journalist and two other reporters for The Grayzone.

Venezuela Building Socialism In The Midst Of A War: Report from The Left Forum

July 6, 2019 Roger Harris, Popular Resistance Educate! Embassy Protection Collective, US Regime Change, Venezuela

Rodríguez was only nine years old when Hugo Chávez was elected president of Venezuela in 1998 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution. Based on her activism, this millennial explained to a mostly seasoned audience at the Left Forum in Brooklyn, New York, on June 29: “The road to socialism is not a flat road. It is a road with many obstacles. But the direction of our government has been clearly towards socialism. The Venezuelan constitution has shown the way. It is not easy to make a revolution the democratic way in the context of globalization and international warfare” from the U.S.

Embassy Protectors Defense Committee Forms, Urges Support For Embassy Protectors

June 30, 2019 By Embassy Protectors Defense Committee Resist! Embassy Protection Collective, US Regime Change, Venezuela

The Embassy Protectors Defense Committee finds it imperative to organize and carry out an effective national campaign in support of the Embassy Protectors in the following three areas: To organize a nationwide fundraising campaign to raise the necessary funds to cover the legal expenses for the four Embassy Protectors. This will require soliciting active participation of all peace and justice organizations in the United States in a nationally coordinated fundraising campaign. This fundraising campaign is especially crucial as the US government has virtually unlimited resources to prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law.

The Embassy Protection Collective Continues, In Court

June 18, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Resist! Embassy Protection Collective, US coup, Venezuela

The Embassy Protectors are continuing their efforts in solidarity with the people of Venezuela by defending themselves in federal court. The next hearing of the four inside Embassy Protectors is July 9 at 9:30 am before the chief judge of the US District Court in Washington, DC, Judge Beryl A. Howell. If convicted, the Embassy Protectors are facing up to one year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine. Help the Embassy Protectors raise enough money to defend themselves against prosecution by the US government. Donate here.

The Attack On Venezuelan Embassies, A Strategy Of US Regime Change

May 30, 2019 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Educate! Embassy Protection Collective, US Regime Change, Venezuela

The video below, Venezuela: Diplomacy Under Siege, is a well-researched documentary on the attacks of coup plotters on Venezuelan embassies and how this has been a strategy used in US coup attempts around the world. The video explains a perspective that is relevant to the siege at the Venezuela Embassy in Washington, DC by putting it in the context of a strategy being used by US coup plotters and their violent allies. The attack on the embassy in Washington, DC is part of a strategy being used in multiple countries by the coup plotters of trying to take over embassies. The Embassy Protection Collective, which Popular Resistance helped to organize, is included at the end of the video.

Trump Administration Gives Venezuelan Embassy To Coup Faction

May 26, 2019 Ann Wright, OpEd News. Educate! Embassy Protection Collective, US coup, Venezuela

Washington, DC - As the Government of Venezuela signed an agreement with the Government of Turkey to be its Protecting Power for its diplomatic facilities in the United States and was awaiting approval from Washington, on May 24, the U.S. Department of State allowed the unelected Trump designated Juan Guaido opposition to the elected Government of Venezuela to take possession of the Venezuelan Embassy building in Washington, D.C in violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The Embassy building had been occupied at the request of the elected Government of Venezuela for 36 days by the Civilian Protection Collective which was organized by CODEPINK: Women for Peace, ANSWER and Popular Resistance.

Tell The State Department To Protect The Embassies

The Embassy Protection Collective held the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC for 37 days with the goal of preventing the U.S. government from installing a coup leader in the Embassy before the U.S. and Venezuela could reach a mutual agreement to allow third countries to protect their embassies. Mutual protecting power agreements would provide a peaceful path for the U.S. and Venezuela to safeguard their respective embassies until diplomatic relations are restored. The good news is that the two countries are very close to achieving that goal.

The US-Led Coup In Venezuela Comes To Washington

May 22, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Embassy Protection Collective, US coup, Venezuela

For 37 days, from April 10 to May 16, activists calling themselves the Embassy Protection Collective stayed at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC 24/7 to prevent the United States from perpetuating its coup attempt and violating the Vienna Convention by turning the embassy over to the US-supported coup leader, Juan Guaido. The activists, including the show hosts, were there with the permission and support of the elected government of Venezuela. The United States government used everything it could to force the activists out, including cutting off access to food, electricity and water and surrounding the embassy with violent fascists. Adrienne Pine, a professor of anthropology who has studied the coup in Honduras and who was an Embassy Protector until the end, joins us to discuss what happened, what it was like and what comes next.

Declaration Of The Embassy Protection Collective

May 20, 2019 The Embassy Protection Collective Organize! Embassy Protection Collective, Regime Change, Venezuela

We have joined together as the Embassy Protection Collective to show solidarity with the people of Venezuela and their right to determine their elected government. We are staying in the Venezuelan embassy with the permission of the legitimate Venezuelan government under President Nicolas Maduro. We seek to provide a nonviolent barrier to the threatened opposition takeover of their embassy in Washington, DC by being a presence at the embassy every day of the week for 24 hours a day. The Collective is working from the embassy, located in the heart of Georgetown in Washington, DC during the day and holding seminars and cultural events in the evenings, as well as sleeping in the embassy.

US Judge Orders Release of Four Activists Arrested at Venezuela’s DC Embassy

May 19, 2019 Staff, Sputnik News Resist! Embassy Protection Collective, Venezuela

A US federal judge has ordered the release of four anti-war activists arrested inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC, on Thursday. They will reappear in court on June 12. Kevin Zeese, Adrienne Pine, Margaret Flowers, and David Paul appeared in a DC federal courthouse Friday, where they were charged with a Class A misdemeanor: "interfering with a federal law enforcement agent engaged in protective functions."

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