00:00Paul Morgan also described his experience of learning about the direct democracy that exists in Venezuela.
00:07If you look at the state of the world right now, in particular where I come from in Europe,
00:13and also the global north, people are looking for hope.
00:16People see the world in flames, people see very little on the horizon, very little to look forward to.
00:23I think one of the things that you come away with from a visit in Venezuela
00:27is that there is a process here that is engaging the people in direct democracy,
00:32as we saw in the National Popular Consultation.
00:35It's engaging people in the construction of their own economy, as we see in the broader communal project.
00:41It's engaging people in the defense of their sovereignty for a project that has achieved tremendous gains for the ordinary
00:49working person.
00:50And many people don't know that, because as you will well know, working for Telesur,
00:56the global informational space is hegemonized by empire.
00:59It's hegemonized by forces that don't want us to understand the perspective of the working person,
01:04that don't want us to understand the perspective of struggle.
01:07And so our job now is to take what we've learned here, the positive message, the hopeful message,
01:11that we see in Venezuela, and take it back to people who need that message in their own struggles,
01:15and also to mobilize them in defense, not only in Venezuela, but all countries that are defending their sovereignty
01:23in the face of this increasingly angry and belligerent empire that we see now.
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