6 de junio 2013

Fuente: Honduras Solidarity Network

The Honduras Solidarity Network, a network of over 30 US organizations, calls for local actions on June 28 to commemorate the coup and in solidarity with the resistance movement.

Why we are calling for these actions:

• June 28, 2013 will be the fourth anniversary of the military coup that toppled elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya
•  The coup government then held faux elections under a State of Emergency which selected defacto President Porfirio Lobo
• Since the 2009 coup Honduras has fallen into a state of lawlessness and impunity. It now has the highest murder rate in the world and has become the second poorest country in the hemisphere after Haiti
• There have been 206 politically motivated murders of

Resistance activists by the military, police, and private armies employed by the largest landowners such as Miguel Facusse, including 104 peasant cooperative leaders in the Aguan Valley, 59 lawyers, 33 journalists and dozens of unionists, teachers, and LGBTQ activists.

The heroic response to the repression in Honduras:

•  In spite of the repression, popular sectors continue to struggle peacefully for democracy under the banner of the National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP)
• The FNRP has registered a political party, the Liberation and Refoundation Party (LIBRE), and democratically elected candidates for president, congress, and mayors to contest in the Nov. 24, 2013 general election
• The LIBRE ticket is headed by Xiomara Castro, wife of deposed President Zelaya Castro, holds a firm lead in all opinion polls since her nomination

To be in solidarity with the people of Honduras, the HSN is calling for local actions to make the following coordinated demands:

1. Cut US aid and training to the Honduran military and police.

2. Withdraw US troops and armed Drug Enforcement agents and contractors.

3. No US intervention in Honduras election, particularly under the guise of democracy promotion funding by USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, and its core groups.

If your organization is planning an action on June 28 or near this date, please send the details to [email protected] so we can add it to the HSN web page.

The Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Network (BALASC) will hold a vigil  on Thursday, June 28 at 5pm at 24th and Mission Street in San Francisco, to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of the coup against President Zelaya of Honduras and the ongoing repression and to  denounce the US support for the coup, the continued militarization of the army and police, the DEA assassination of 4 Hondurans last month, and US support of the government of Porfirio Lobo, which tries to put a democratic smiley face on the continuation of the brutal coup government.  

Boston

FREEDOM SONGS AND POETRY

THURSDAY, JUNE 28TH, 2012

Chelsea, City Hall Plaza

5:00 to 8:00 P.M.

We will have a special guest who recently returned from Honduras. He will inform us about his conversation with the people of La Mosquitia and the killings by the Honduran Army and their accomplices from the U.S. DEA/military.

For more information please call: Tito Meza (617) 610-3784. [email protected]  --- www.proyectohondureno.com

Chicago

On Thursday, June 28th beginning at noon, La Voz de los de Abajo with other Chicago organizations will hold a vigil and protest outside the Honduran Consulate in Chicago. For more information contact: [email protected] or (312) 259-5042

Kansas City

Honduras: Our Next War? Connecting the Dots

Monday, June 25th 6:00-8:30pm Kansas City Kansas Public Library Auditorium, 625 Minnesota Ave., KC 66101

Three members of the Cross Border Network recently returned from a human rights delegation to Honduras and traveled to Ahuas in the Mosquitia region, to speak with survivors and witnesses of a recent massacre. They will report back and show photos

The event is free, donations will be requested. Off-street parking is available behind the Library off Ann Ave. There will be typical Honduran appetizers. For more information call 816-835-4745.

Los Angeles 

Vigil at 6pm at the Honduran Consulate

3550 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

sponsored by: Coalición Latinoamericano Pro Derechos Humanos en Latino América; Answer LA; Comite Solidario Graciela Garcia; Roland Palencia, Comités de Base del FMLN, Comités de Base del FSLN, Institute of Popular Education LA (IDEPSCA, Tendéncia Revolucionaria de El Salvador en Los Angeles, Frente Unido de Los Pueblos Americanos (FUPA), Danza Azteca Cuauhtemoc. 

New York City  Stand in Solidarity with the Honduran Resistance! Demand an End to Human Rights Violations and Impunity under the Lobo Regime!

U.S. Imperialism: Out of Honduras!

June 28, 2012

4 pm - meet in Times Square 

5pm march to the Honduran United Nations Mission

5:30 - 6:30 protest at the United Nations Plaza

Colectivo Honduras USA Resistencia-libre and Comite Solidario con America Latina y El Caribe en el International Action Center

May 1st Coalition, La Peña del Bronx, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Center

For more information: Lucy 917-396-0204 or Teresa 917-328-6470

Phoenix, Arizona

June 29 at Conspire Coffee, 901 North 5th Street

Panel Discussion: 

Irene Rodriguez, journalist and participant in May delegation which investigated the killing of indigenous Miskito people, including two pregnant woman and a 14 year-old boy in a botched drug interdiction involving US DEA agents.

Elane Spivak Rodriguez, Alliance for Global Justice national staff and LGBTI activist on the targeting of LGBT activists since the June 28, 2009 coup for brutal torture and murder which has cost the community 30 members and counting.

Chuck Kaufman, Alliance for Global Justice national staff who has led several delegations to Honduras and represents AfGJ on the Coordinating Committee of the Honduras Solidarity Network

For information call: 202-544-9355 x1 - Alliance for Global Justice

Tucson, Arizona

Honduras Coup: LGBT and Indigenous Suffer

June 30, 2012 - 6:00-8:00pm

Jon Miles Room - Pima County Housing Center

801 W. Congress St.

Panel and light snacks: Speakers: 

Irene Rodriguez, journalist and participant in May delegation which investigated the killing of indigenous Miskito people, including two pregnant woman and a 14 year-old boy in a botched drug interdiction involving US DEA agents.

Elane Spivak Rodriguez, Alliance for Global Justice national staff and LGBTI activist on the targeting of LGBT activists since the June 28, 2009 coup for brutal torture and murder which has cost the community 30 members and counting.

Chuck Kaufman, Alliance for Global Justice national staff who has led several delegations to Honduras and represents AfGJ on the Coordinating Committee of the Honduras Solidarity Network

For information call: 202-544-9355 x1 - Sponsored by Alliance for Global Justice and Tucson Wingspan

Washington D.C.

June 28th - A day of action organized by Colectivo Morazan and Honduras Solidarity Network-DC

beginning with flyering with a fact sheet on Honduras at the Capitol South Metro Station at 355 First Street from 7:30-9:30 am (this is the Metro Stop most used by congressional office staff members). In the afternoon lobbying visits to Congressional offices will be organized to demand that the U.S. end its military and security aid and involvement in Honduras. 

In the evening, Miriam Miranda, Honduran resistence leader and president of the Afro-Honduran organization, OFRANEH will speak at an event at St. Stephens Church, 1525 Newton Street NW from 6:30- 9pm.