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Protest in Solidarity with the People of Honduras: Washington, DC
Demand that U.S. recognize human rights violations NOT elections
Protest the U.S. intent to recognize elections under martial law in Honduras
Time is running out. On November 29th, the Honduran military and business junta that illegally seized power on June 28th and that has since violently repressed the country’s people and press will hold “elections” effectively closing all possibility for a reversal of the coup d’ etat that ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009.
The announcement in late October of an agreement between President Zelaya and the coup regime, although extremely flawed, gave to many the hope that a semblance of the democratic process would be restored in Honduras after all. However, the coup regime has reneged on its obligations under the accord by refusing to allow President Zelaya to be reinstated prior to the elections. The coup regime is attempting to launder the coup d’etat with martial law elections that the opposition cannot meaningfully contest.
President Zelaya, the National Front Against the Coup, and a broad-based popular movement in Honduras have called for a boycott of the elections. Twenty-three Latin American nations are echoing the cry of the Honduran people and have expressed that they will refuse to recognize the coup-regime elections. These nations have opted to instead recognize the widespread violations of human rights committed by the cup regime. The U.S. State Department representatives continue to deny having heard any reports of human rights abuses.
In a recent and shocking policy shift, the U.S. plans to almost unilaterally recognize these elections as legitimate. While the State Department claims the elections represent a way for Honduras to “move forward” out of the crisis, those who know the history of Latin America know that without justice and accountability, Honduras is in danger of repeating the repression and suffering of dirty wars throughout Latin America’s history.
Please join Hondurans for Democracy at the State Department to personally deliver human rights reports on Honduras and to tell President Obaman, Secretary Clinton, and other key decision-makers that their position, and their cowardly silence on human rights abuses in Honduras at the hands of the coup regime, are completely unacceptable.
SPREAD THE WORD. FORWARD TO FRIENDS, FAMILY, and CO-WORKERS!
PRINT THE ATTACHED FLYERS AND DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE
Questions? E-mail us! mramos@porlademocracia or smoncada@porlademocracia
Concert for Honduran Resistance: Minneapolis, MN
Join Us!
Concert for Honduran Resistance
Entrance: $10 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Bands: Pachamama, Jumpship, Carlos Yamil Lumbi
The struggle continues in Honduras. The supposed agreement between President Manuel Zelaya and the "golpista" government led by Roberto Micheletti has fallen apart. The agreement, created at the behest of the US state department, proved to be an empty shell under whose authority Micheletti created a unilateral "unity" government. The US is waffling about its position on the legitimacy of the government and the status of the November 29 elections in Honduras, while the Organization of American States (with the exception of the US) has declared that it will not recognize the elections. President Zelaya remains holed up in the Brazilian embassy and the Honduran Resistance has vowed to continue its battle against the coup.
Here in Minnesota, the Minnesota Cuba Committee is part of the newly formed group, Hands Off Honduras, and is helping to organize the concert on November 28 to support the Honduran resistance.
Protest in Solidarity with the People of Honduras: San Francisco, CA
Protest in Solidarity with the People of Honduras! Demand that the US government not recognize the Nov 29th elections, held under the illegal coup in Honduras! Sponsored by Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalitionwww.BALASC.org
De Facto Elections Equal a De Facto Government - Not Democracy! Chicago, IL
Emergency Action
Honduras: De Facto Elections Equal a De Facto Government - Not Democracy!
We Are All Honduras - Chicago VIGIL
In front of the Honduran Consulate at 4439 West Fullerton
Join us in a vigil to protest the illegal elections organized by the coup government - in the midst of a growing human rights crises - and to honor the assassinated and imprisoned members of the anti-coup resistance.
At 4 pm, there will be a ceremony marking the closing of the polls and the attempted murder of democracy in Honduras.
NW Latin American Solidarity Conference: Olympia, WA
NW Latin American Solidarity Conference
*Pre-registration is requested, billeting is available.
For more information visit: http://nwlasconference.wordpress.com
Workshops include:
Pastor’s For Peace: 21st Cuba Caravan takes off July 3rd
Presenter/s: Rick Fellows and Brendan Funtek
Rick Fellows has been a mechanic for the Cuba Caravan since the beginning. He will be discussing his experience in over 60 caravans to Cuba and Central America along with Brendan Funtek who went on one of the caravans a couple years ago.
“Free All Political Prisoners Now!”: Supporting our PP’s in AmeriKKKa
Nita and Adam Carpinelli
Nita will discuss the case of the Cuban Five and Adam will discuss the importance of Political Prisoner support networks and solidarity specifically in context of working with The Jericho Movement.
NYC Update Honduras- After the Media Spotlight Leaves w/ Dr. Luther Castillo
Join us as we welcome Dr. Luther Castillo to New York City.
“After the Media Spotlight Leaves: Continuing Solidarity with Haiti
and Honduras”
Forum, film and discussion
Friday April 16th
7:00pm
La Resurreccion United Methodist Church
790 Elton Ave @ E 158th St, the Bronx, 10451
(1 Block East of E 158th St and 3rd Ave, take the 2 or 5 train or the
BX19 bus to E 149th St and 3rd Ave or take the BX06 bus to E 161st and
Washington Ave)
We will be showing the new film “Fireflies in the Night” about the
Henry Reeve Cuban Medical Brigade in Haiti.
Dr. Luther Castillo M.D., spokesperson for the People’s Front for
National Resistance in Honduras, joins us once again in New York City
to share his recent experiences in the struggle to defend democracy
and human rights in Honduras following the military coup of June 28th,
2009.
As a graduate of the Latin American School of Medicine (LASM), Dr.
Castillo, a young Garifuna (African and indigenous descendant) doctor,
is the founder and director of the first hospital on the Atlantic
coast of Honduras that provides the Garifuna community with
healthcare.
Dr. Castillo is also the co-coordinator of the Latin American School
of Medicine's International Henry Reeve Brigade, and has spent the
last 2 months in Haiti working alongside more than 1000 Cuban doctors,
LASM graduates from 26 nations, and Haitian LASM students and
graduates providing emergency medicine as well as basic medical and
psychological care to hundreds of thousands of Haitians.
We will also have updates about IFCO’s collaboration with Local 100 of
the Transport Workers Union to organize a container shipment of
medicines, medical supplies, tents and cots to Haiti at the end of
April.
For questions and more information please call 212-926-5757 or e-mail
ifco@igc.org
