Human Agenda puts on its own signature events, engages in roundtable dialogues on critical human needs, and calls for personal and policy actions to create a more humane and meaningful existence for all. Signature annual events of Human Agenda are hands-on learning opportunities to deepen our understanding and improve our practices with respect to how we live our own lives and how to address the physical poverty and time poverty that harm so many lives.
PRESS ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 4, 2026
SILICON VALLEY RESIDENTS RALLY AGAINST U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION IN VENEZUELA
On January 4, Silicon Valley residents express outrage and condemnation at President Trump’s military adventure in Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro in violation of international law.
San José, CA – Despite polls showing that at least 70 per cent of the American people oppose foreign military interventions and wars of choice, President Donald Trump has carried out an unprovoked attack on the sovereignty of Venezuela and kidnapped its president, Nicholas Maduro and his wife, on the false pretext of cracking down on international drug trafficking and “narco-terrorism.” Available data indicate that Venezuela is not a major source of drug trafficking into the United States, and does not even produce significant amounts of cocaine, let alone fentanyl, and that most drug trafficking takes place via the Pacific Ocean or goes via land through Central America.
President Trump’s own statements reveal that the true objective is to take over Venezuela’s oil and mineral resources, open the country to U.S. companies, and to unilaterally run the country during a “transition period.” Contrary to U.S. government allegations that President Nicolas Maduro is “illegitimate,” the fact remains that he was repeatedly elected in contested elections where international observers have verified the integrity of the electoral process.
For these reasons, local residents want to send a loud message to the Trump Administration and to our Members of Congress that this illegal attempt at regime change is not acceptable. Instead of wasting limited resources on unprovoked military adventures, let us bring the war dollars home for universal health care, housing for all, education for all, public transit, and all human needs.
WHAT: Protest against U.S. intervention and regime change in Venezuela.
WHEN: Press conference: Sunday, January 4, 2026, 2:00 pm | Protest rally: Sunday, January 4, 2026, 3:00 pm
WHERE: In front of Mexican Heritage Plaza on the corner of Alum Rock Avenue and King Road, San José
WHO: San José Against War, 50501 San José, San José Peace & Justice Center, Community Service Organization, CODEPINK, San José May Day Coalition, Human Agenda, Santa Clara County Green Party, Democratic Socialists of America – Silicon Valley, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Students for a Democratic Society - San José
Tickets NOW AVAILABLE - 13 December 2025 Human Agenda’s Annual Human Rights Awards | Entradas YA DISPONIBLES - 13 diciembre 2025 Premios Anuales de Derechos Humanos de la Agenda Humana
CALL TO ACTION | LLAMADO A LA ACCION | Sunday Feb. 23 @ 2 PM | Domingo, 23 de febrero @ 2 PM | Alum Rock + S. King Road | March & Protest: No Deportations! No ICE in San Jose! | Marcha y Protesta: ¡No a las Deportaciones! | ¡No hay I.C.E. en San José!
Human Agenda invites you to the 16th Annual Human Rights Awards Banquet
Resist and Build, Featuring keynote speaker Esteban Kelly on “The Path Toward Worker-Owned Cooperatives”
Tickets: $50
Need a Break: $25
Students: $15
RSVP is required
(for discounts write STUDENT or BREAK)
Tickets and sponsorships can be purchased at www.HumanAgenda.net or by mailing your tax-deductible donation made payable to Human Agenda to 1376 N. 4th Street, Suite 101, San Jose, CA 95112. Info @ (408) 460-2999
We will have two dynamic leaders speaking on the topic of “Resisting Oppression; Building Alternatives”: Malinda Markowitz, Co-President of California Nurses Association and National Nurses Organizing Committee and Vice President of National Nurses United & Nick Brana, Founder, Movement for a People’s Party; National Political Outreach Coordinator for Bernie 2016.
DECKS Awards: representing the values of Human Agenda
Please sponsor the Banquet as a Visionary, Champion, Supporter, or Friend, or purchase tickets by December 2 online or via landmail. If you cannot attend, please make a donation to Human Agenda so we can sustain our work to improve our community, our democracy, and our economy.
Each year Human Agenda celebrates the coming year with great hopefulness and optimism as to what we can do in the coming year. We also recognize the human rights and community activism of local leaders, in support of the annual Dec. 10 U.N. Human Rights Day.
National Take back your time day. Without reduced work hours and sufficient time, key human needs cannot be met—period.
First world poverty, inequality, and unemployment are unacceptable. Each July we visit a migrant farmworker labor camp in Watsonville to hear the testimonies of some of society’s most vulnerable workers. The tours challenge participants to better understand the conditions of Mexican farmworkers in Northern California by sharing in their lives, food, and living quarters.
With 100,000 workers in 120 cooperatives, no layoffs since 1956 and higher income than Spanish workers, how can we learn from the largest worker-owned cooperatives in the Western world, located in the Basque region of Spain?
Government for the people, can we do it here?
Come learn what Richmond Mayor Gayle Mclaughlin and her city council are doing for the people of Richmond, California: jobs, housing, healthcare, education, environment, people’s participation in local Government.
