[HNA] AFT 1021 passes resolution on Honduras

[rpastor at fas.harvard.edu]

Yes Simon it is important. More important than that some American organizations
are planing to demmand that the US goverrnment pronouce itself on human rights
abuses. I was so impressed by your text yesterday, that I incorporated several
quotes from it to my own conference on the theme to be read at th University of
Chicago, next monday. And I thought I would share it with you all. So I am
attaching it


Quoting Simon Rios <elektrodread at gmail.com>:

> PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!
>
> AFT 1021, part of United Teachers Los Angeles, representing over 10,000
> teachers and professional education support personnel, passed the following
> motion at its meeting Thursday, 11/12/09.
>
>
> *Emergency Resolution on the Current Crisis in Honduras*
>
> *Whereas*, following the June 28, 2009 military coup in Honduras, the
> AFL-CIO National Convention passed a resolution in September demanding
> immediate reinstatement of President Manuel Zelaya, restoration of all labor
> and democratic rights, and an immediate halt to all U.S. aid to the coup
> government; and
>
> *Whereas*, a U.S.-brokered deal [the Tegucigalpa/San Jose Accords] to
> reinstate President Zelaya by November 5th -- in preparation for the Nov.
> 29th elections -- has unraveled, and the coup regime refused to restore
> Zelaya to the Presidency. As a result, President Zelaya, denouncing the "bad
> faith" of the U.S. government, said the Tegucigalpa/San Jose Accords were "a
> dead letter,” and
>
> *Whereas*, President Zelaya is still taking refuge in the Brazilian Embassy
> and the Honduran people led by the National Resistance Front Against the
> Coup (including many teachers in the leadership) continue to mount massive
> daily demonstrations against the coup regime; which responds with mass
> tear-gassing and beating of protesters by U.S.-trained army and police in an
> attempt to suppress the popular will and prevent the exercise of democratic
> rights; and
>
> *Whereas*, there is a total lack of political space for opposition
> candidates to campaign and for the expression of any dissident political
> opinion, and under the current coup regime, conditions for free, fair and
> open elections are non-existent; and
>
> *Whereas*, the National Resistance Front has denounced the Nov. 29th
> elections as a scheme by "the de facto regime that is repressing the people
> and violating the civil and human rights of its citizens, with the goal of
> validating the dictatorship of the oligarchy," and that participating in
> such an electoral exercise "would give legitimacy to the coup regime or its
> successor." The Front also stressed that "our stance in opposition to the
> electoral farce will remain firm even if President Zelaya is reinstated
> between now and Nov. 29th, since 20 days or less is too short a time to
> dismantle an electoral fraud many months in the making," and there is no
> time for opposition candidates to mount a campaign;
>
> *Therefore be it resolved*, that AFT 1021 stand in solidarity with the
> heroic people of Honduras as they resist the savage repression of a military
> dictatorship, and fight to win real democracy and sovereignty for their
> country; and
>
> *Be it further resolved*, that AFT 1021 send official letters to
> Congressional representatives, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, and
> President Obama demanding that the U.S. government take strong measures
> against the repressive coup government in Honduras -- and whatever
> government may succeed it as a result of the "electoral farce" scheduled for
> Nov. 29th. These measures should include: 1) Immediately break off all
> political and economic ties with the coup government and its successor; 2)
> Recall the U.S. ambassador; 3) Establish an economic embargo on all trade
> and aid to Honduras; 4) Freeze the U.S. bank accounts of the coup plotters
> and deny them visas for U.S. travel; 5) Shut down U.S. military bases in
> Honduras; and
>
> *Be it further resolved*, that AFT 1021 demand that the U.S. government
> denounce and refuse to recognize the results of Nov. 29th elections or any
> electoral process organized under the repressive coup regime; and
>
> *Be it further resolved*, that AFT 1021 will submit this resolution as an
> emergency resolution at the Delegate Assembly of the County Federation of
> Labor on Monday, November 16, 2009 and further encourage its other
> affiliates, such as CFT and AFT to adopt similar resolutions; and
>
> *Finally be it resolved*, that AFT 1021 make common cause with other labor
> and community organizations, to develop a reliable support network for the
> National Resistance Front against the Coup, and for the labor unions,
> especially the teachers union, that are at the center of the Resistance
> movement in Honduras.
>
>
> Andy Griggs
> lauslaw2 at gmail.com
> 310-704-3217
>
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