[HNA] HONDURAS: SOA Protest Action - Friday Nov 20 Honduran Consulate

Fri Nov 20 07:25:27 PST 2009

FYI

--- On Fri, 11/20/09, Tupac Enrique <chantlaca at tonatierra.org> wrote:

From: Tupac Enrique <chantlaca at tonatierra.org>
Subject: [Presente-Honduras] HONDURAS: School of the Americas Protest Action - Friday Nov 20 Honduran Consulate 4040 E. McDowell Phoenix
To: "Vicki Cervantes" <vickicervantes at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Presente Honduras" <presente-honduras at lists.mayfirst.org>, lavozchicago at yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 12:30 AM

Honduras Solidarity Committee

Press Release
For Immediate Release
Date: Friday November 13, 2009

Contact:  Tupac Enrique  (602) 466-8367

International Solidarity for Honduras

SHUT DOWN THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS!
Protest Action at Phoenix Honduran Consulate 

“An Election Farce is in the making in Honduras with U.S. State Department Support!”

US National Committee in Solidarity with Honduran Resistance to the Coup Regime 

When:         Friday November 20, 2009

Time:                  4:00 PM to 6:00 PMWhere:             4040  E. McDowell (Honduran Consulate of Phoenix)

Re:                  Phoenix Honduras Solidarity Committee
joins international action at the gates of the School of the Americas
in Fort Benning, Georgia, Calls Again for End to US Support for Illegal Military Coup Dictatorship in Honduras 

Honduras Solidarity Committee of
Phoenix will join the movement to close the infamous "School of the
Americas" that will bring together thousands of human rights activists,
torture survivors, veterans, faith-based communities, union workers,
students, musicians and others from across the Americas for a Vigil,
Rally, Funeral Procession and Nonviolent Direct Action to close the
School of the Americas at Fort Benning, GA from November 20-22.

The action in Phoenix in front of the Honduran Consulate is a call
on the U.S. Government and the Obama administration specifically to the Reject the Honduran Election Farce being prepared for November 29, 2009.

There
can be no legitimate, fair elections under the violence and threats of
violence of the de facto, unconstitutional government, and its
repressive police and military forces who have been brutally violating
the rights of peaceful Honduran protesters for the past four months.
Opposition candidates at national, provincial and municipal levels have
withdrawn from the electoral process. 

The action in Phoenix is part of a national and international series of solidarity actions across the U.S. which will continue on Friday November 27th, followed by solidarity protests in support of the Honduran people’s untiring, courageous resistance on November 28th and 29th, as they justifiably boycott the bogus and farcical elections.

The equivocating of the U.S. position as regards Honduras is
spinning heads around the U.S. and the world and contributes to setting
the stage for a return to failed policies of the past, legitimizing via
US power brokering an illegitimate and illegal regime of the military
coup now in power in Honduras.  The failure
of the October 30 agreement between Micheletti and Zelaya clearly stems
from a plot to delay or impede altogether the restoration of President
Manuel Zelaya to power. 

This represents
nothing less than a capitulation, or worse the outright endorsement of
the Obama administration to the illegitimate usurper coup regime in Honduras.

Organizers for justice in the Americas have been gathering at the
gates of Ft. Benning since 1990, and as the demonstration against the
SOA has evolved into one of the most vibrant anti-militarization
convergences in the United States, as we learn from one another's
stories, tactics, ideas, information, theater, friendships, trainings,
workshops, films, and more, click here to see the schedule of events!

Bertha Oliva, the founder and coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared (COFADEH) will travel from Honduras to join the mobilization. Bernardo Vivas from
the Cacraica Community for Self-Determination, Life, and Dignity is
coming from Colombia to speak out at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia
and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a community-based worker
organization whose members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan
Indian immigrants are traveling up from Florida. Celebrity entertainers
such as the Indigo Girls and Rebel Diaz will attend as well.

Recalling the period in history from 1865-1867, when the US
government applied diplomatic pressure in favor of Mexico’s legitimate
president Benito Juarez and against the illegal right wing usurpers of power, the battle for constitutional government in Honduras takes place during new era of democratization across the hemisphere.   The
developments in the central part of the continent also are framed by
the constitutional recognition for the first time of Indigenous
Peoples, as declared by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by the UN General Assembly on September 13th, 2007.

Also calling for investigation of the role of the US based School of
the Americas at Ft. Benning Georgia in the military coup in Honduras, the Honduras Solidarity Committee of Arizona is also calling upon congressional support for House Resolution 630 before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, demanding the reinstatement of President Zelaya.

For more information please contact:  Tupac Enrique Acosta (602) 466-8367 in Phoenix or consult the School of the Americas Watch website at: 

School of the Americas Watch
http://soaw.org/

Links:
Quixote Center
www.quixote.org

Americas Program
http://americas.irc-online.org/

NAHUACALLI

Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples
http://www.nahuacalli.org/Honduras_Solidarity.html

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