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Board Bios: Representative Gregory W. Meeks 4/19/2009 NED: "Representative
Meeks serves on the International Relations Committee and its Subcommittee on
Africa, and the Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific. An active member of
the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Representative Meeks was voted the CBC
Whip in 2001. Representative Meeks is a member of several civic and professional
organizations, including the National Bar Association, the Coalition of 100
Black Men, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and
the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, Inc. He founded the Jesse L.
Jackson Independent Democratic Club (renamed the Thurgood Marshall Regular
Democratic Club) and remains active in grassroots community organizing. Prior to
being elected to congress, Representative Meeks served as Assistant District
Attorney to the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York and on the
State Investigations Commission and was appointed Judge of the New York State
Workers' Compensation Board."
Gregory
Meeks 4/19/2009 Source Watch
Policy
review prompts solidarity with Cuba’s democrats 4/8/2009 Democracy
Digest - NED: "Democracy and human rights groups are urging the
Congressional Black Caucus, which yesterday met with Fidel Castro, to press
Cuba’s communist authorities on the welfare of the island’s political
prisoners and democracy activists, including Afro-Cuban prisoner of conscience
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet and civil rights activist Jorge Luis Perez Garcia, aka
“Antunez.”"
US Congressman
Meeks launches the OAS Caucus with support of OAS Secretary General Insulza 4/2/2009 South
Florida Caribbean News: "Congressman Meeks took the initiative to
launch the Caucus stating that “the time is ripe to shape a more productive
relationship between the United States and our neighbors in the Americas. As we
prepare for the Fifth Summit of the Americas in April this year, it is important
to recall that these nations are our largest trading partners and their peoples
share historical, cultural and family connections with the United States.”
"
Afro-Venezuelans
denounce divide-and-conquer scheme by Willie Thompson 3/1/2006 SF
Bay View: "Eve Golinger-Moncada, a Venezuelan-American attorney and
author of “The Chavez Code,” is reported by Afro-Venezuelans to be
denouncing Afro- and Indigenous Venezuelans on radio and television in Caracas.
She alleges that they are taking money from U.S. government agencies – NED,
IRI and USAID – to destabilize and overthrow the Bolivarian Venezuelan
government of President Hugo Chavez. The reports, brought back from the 2006
World Social Forum recently held in Venezuela and received in emails, are deeply
troubling to both Afro-Venezuelans and African North Americans. Golinger-Moncada
is said not to have named any specific Afro- or Indigenous-Venezuelan groups or
organizations. Afro-Venezuelans believe she is trying to divide the Afro- and
Indigenous Venezuelans from the Bolivarian movement so as to aid the real
opponents of the Venezuelan government for personal gain. In 2004,
Golinger-Moncada published a list of organizations receiving funding from the
U.S., but it isn’t clear that they included Afro- and Indigenous Venezuelan
organizations. It is important to know that Congressman Gregory Meeks of the
Congressional Black Caucus is a member of the NED (National Endowment for
Democracy) board of directors."
Afro-Cuban
Delegation Meets With Congressional Black Caucus 8/1/2001 CNS
News: "A delegation of Afro-Cubans, four from the Miami area and two
from the Washington, D.C. area, spent Tuesday on Capitol Hill meeting with
members of the Congressional Black Caucus, hoping to convince them that Fidel
Castro is bad for Cuba and should improve his human rights record there. Omar
Lopez Montenegro of the Cuban Civic National Union was among the delegation. He
was told by the Castro government to leave Cuba several years ago and has lived
in the United States ever since."
From http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/congtravel/member_report.php?member=7215:
Sponsor(s) - Christopher
Reynolds Foundation, General
Service Foundation
Dates - May 30, 2000 - June 4, 2000 (6 days)
Location(s) - Havana, Cuba
Purpose - Access the impact of the food and medicine embargo on the Cuban people
with a particular focus on the Afro-Cuban population
Notes - Took wife, Simone-Marie Meeks
Travel Cost - $1,394.00
Lodging Cost - $555.00
Meal Cost - $315.00
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $2,264.00
Additional family members - Yes
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