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Bulletins and News Discussion from July 24th to July 30th, 2023 - Venezuela's 4,600,000th House

The Great Housing Mission of Venezuela, launched in 2011 by Hugo Chavez, is the most ambitious housing project in the country's history. This week, the 4,600,000th house was built, with a goal for 5 million homes by 2024 and beyond. The program has built 1,255 residential complexes on a total of 9,837 hectares, an area equivalent to six times the Swiss city of Geneva.

The program additionally provides social infrastructure like schools, subsidized food markets, and recreational and green spaces. Over 70% of constructions are self-managed by communities, with financial and logistics support from the government. Communities also provide each other with materials - from each according to their supplies, to each according to their needs. Russian, Chinese, and Belarusian companies have helped supply the program over the years.

In Antímano Parish in southwestern Caracas, a group of predominantly women came together in 2015 and trained in construction, cleared land, and then built apartments while under the pressure of food and materials shortages and electricity blackouts due to the United States' sanctions campaign.

Claudia Tisoy, a mother and self-trained plumber, said “This goes beyond building homes for our families, we are also building the future of our country, with women leading the way. This is what the socialist horizon is all about.”VA

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  • US lawmakers debate bill pressing Hollywood to reject China’s film censorship

    Hollywood’s relationship with China was put under the microscope on Wednesday as US House lawmakers advanced a bill that would prevent studios from receiving federal funding if they don’t promise to ignore Beijing’s censorship requests.

    The legislation, called Stopping Communist Regimes from Engaging in Edits Now Act (SCREEN Act), was heatedly debated in the House Foreign Affairs Committee and was approved by a party-line vote of 26-23.

    I think we need to introduce the Defending the United states against Malevolent, Boring Acronyms created by Stupid Shitheads Act

    The bill, introduced by Representative Mark Green, Republican of Tennessee, would require Hollywood companies to report to the US State Department films that have been submitted to Beijing for approval for screening in China before accessing federal funding or support.

    The studio must also submit an agreement that they will not alter the film’s content “in response to or in anticipation of” Beijing’s request.

    lmfao

    But despite bipartisan opposition to Beijing’s censorship efforts abroad, Democrats – including the lead Democrat on the committee, Representative Gregory Meeks of New York – spoke in opposition to the bill, who called it “overbroad” and “counterproductive” to spreading American soft power.

    “This measure helps the CCP achieve exactly what it wants: cutting its citizens off from the outside world and having them watch Wolf Warrior Two instead of Captain America,” Meeks said.

    our soft power, their state propaganda. particularly absurd given how much the US military is involved in creating films nowadays

    But honestly this seems like a good thing. Hollywood loses a ton of money and China doesn't get to see shitty fucking films that try and propagandize them about America. It's a voluntarily reduction of American profit and propaganda for the sake of pure ideology.

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