Whatever you do, go to THIS democratic festival celebrating of the dawn of freedom and not this Chavista one representing the road to Castrodom. IndyMedia has its announcement up on the Chavista Challenge in Chicago, with all the details about the players – CITGO cheap gas, Jesse Jackson, Danny Glover…all the Huey-Long-style pork-barrel tools that are elements of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s effort to buy a revolution of his own right here in the U.S. It’s the first time ever that a foreign leader has attempted to use the urban poor in another country to advance his political aims. Additional coverage is here.

And unlike the brave Belarus marchers, this is not a democratic revolution of freedom.