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So there were state marxists there too, as there were in everything from J20 to those marches against the war in El Salvador back in 1982. For me this was an extension of literally decades of working with whoever I had to to oppose murderous, greed-driven US intervention south of the Rio Grande. I tend to focus on issues, campaigns, and battles rather than on ideology and I try to focus on results on the ground. Ideology is simple: if you believe (as I do) that you have the right to defy the government, you either believe everyone else does too (and are an anarchist or should be one) or you do NOT believe everyone else does too, and are a hypocrite. As a Queer Indigenous person facing what Reagan was pushing in the 1980's, I really had no choice in this matter.

My own role at the Embassy was one of outside support and media work.
The media coverage I posted below gives the blow-by blow of how it went.
For an overview, I posted this HD video overview of the entire siege:
https://archive.org/details/SiegeOfEmbassyOfVenezuala52019

That was based on video footage I shot for the Indymedia reports below supplemented by footage others got:

April 29:
https://dcindymedia.org/node/2277
"Embassy Protection Collective HOLDING Embassy of Venezuala against Trump-backed forces of Juan Guaido"

April 30:
https://dcindymedia.org/node/2278
Embassy of Venezuala holds out against siege by Guaido supporters as coup fails

May 4:
https://dcindymedia.org/node/2286
"Big rallies for control of Embassy of Venezuala end in continuing standoff"

May 4 night: No report filed, but we deployed in a drenching thunderstorm to get food into the embassy.
*We did not put video or a report out as we didn't want to let the coup plotters know how we got the food in,
but the story can now be told. My team was a diversion, making a fake attempt to push or slip through the siege
lines to deliver food. This drew the coup supporters to the front and side, while the food went in the back,

May 8 night:
https://dcindymedia.org/node/2288
Coup supporters beat and choke activist attempting food delivery to beseiged Embassy of Venezuala, power cut off
*A LOT of food got in, but it was messy. Right-wingers had a press conference the next day claiming WE were the violent
ones, and police assaulted protesters the following Saturday.

May 11:
https://dcindymedia.org/node/2296
"Police assault activist at Venezualan Embassy rally after power and water cutoffs"
This one I was not there in person

May 13
https://dcindymedia.org/node/2299
"Defenders of Venezualan Embassy DEFEAT police raid w help from attorneys"
First police raid defeated. Again, I was not present, no advance warning and I live over an hour away.

May 16
https://dcindymedia.org/node/2302
"Police raid Embassy of Venezuala for second time, arrest remaining Embassy Defenders"
I was at Chelsea Manning's grand jury support rally in the immediate aftermath of this, it occurred as I was heading towards DC
en route to that nasty VA courthouse fracas. Since I too resisted a grand jury (they dropped mine after I burned the subpeona in front), any other grand jury resister's support got absolute top priority! I was able to drop by the Embassy for some video at the
5PM protest the same day as the raid, but things were still quite tense and I could not stay long.

May 18
https://dcindymedia.org/node/2306
Embassy Protectors speak 100 feet from Venezualan Embassy, march to White House
The core embassy defenders returned as close as their court-ordered stayways would let them for speeches saying we "literally made
it possible for them to go on" by being there outside all those days, then we all marched to the White House

May 24
https://dcindymedia.org/node/2312
Anti-coup activists hold light projection on walls of Venezualan Embassy after false ambassador Vecchio moves in
We went back there when Guaido's False Ambassador Vecchio moved in, did a projection on the walls. Thunderstorms again, and a hairy
retreat on my bike in drenching rains when pigs made a move I read as a kettle attempt. No arrests resulted though.