[HNA] HONDURAS: Consider joining the Honduras Solidarity Network

[Brian O'Connell]

Please forward widely and sign up....







  
  
  TO: Local Solidarity and Peace &
Justice Committees


INVITATION: Join the US
Honduras Solidarity Network



Since the June 28, 2009 coup in
Honduras that overthrew democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya
and then held sham elections to “select” defacto President Pepe Lobo, a
strong and courageous citizens’ movement has united to struggle for
democracy and justice in Honduras.  Members of the Resistance have been
murdered, beaten, raped, disappeared, threatened and jailed and yet
they struggle on.

An international solidarity
movement is rising up to follow their lead.

We in the United States bear a
special responsibility given the shameful support of our government for
the illegal coup and its current efforts to return Honduras to normal
relations within the community of nations while the violence not only
continues but escalates.

The organizations listed below have
come together in the US to form the Honduras Solidarity Network. The
Network is decentralized and made up of local and national
organizations committed to providing solidarity support for the people
of Honduras. We would like to invite your organization to join with us.
(Sorry, no individual memberships.)



WHAT DOES MEMBERSHIP MEAN?



Member groups of the Network are
committed to:


  Support the Mission and
Objectives of the Network (below)
  Circulate action alerts
  Consider hosting speaking tours
of Hondurans in your community
  Encourage your members to join
delegations to Honduras
  Educate your community about the
situation in Honduras and the
  US government role in denying
democracy and justice in Honduras
  Designate a representative to
participate in Network conference calls (currently every other Tuesday
at 8:30 EDT).


To join the Honduras Solidarity
Network, or if you have questions, write to: Quixote Center (toml at quixote.org) or La Voz de los de Abajo in Chicago (vickicervantes at yahoo.com).

CURRENT MEMBERSHIP LIST:



Quixote Center, Alliance for Global
Justice, Just Foreign Policy, Agricultural Missions, International
Action Center, Grassroots International, Hondurans for Democracy (DC),
International Socialist Organization, SOA Watch, U.S. - El Salvador
Sister Cities, SOA Watch South Florida, Marin County (CA) Task Force on
the Americas, Rhode Island Mobilization Committee to Stop War and
Occupation, St. Louis Interfaith Committee on Latin America, La Voz de
los de Abajo – Chicago, 8th Day Center for Justice – Chicago, Chicago
Religious Leadership Network on Latin America, Proyecto Hondureño –
Boston, Hands Off Honduras Coalition - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Latin
American Solidarity Committee – Milwaukee, CT United for Peace
(Connecticut)



MISSION IN SOLIDARITY WITH HONDURAS




  To denounce the violations of
human rights and demand their investigation so that the intellectual
authors and material perpetrators of these crimes against humanity
against the people of Honduras are punished
  To accompany the people of
Honduras in their journey to the re-founding of their country
  To act with commitment to social
justice in Honduras
  To oppose at the local, regional
and national level the interventionist policy of the U.S. government in
Honduras


ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND
DEMANDS



Create an organizational fabric
from the components of the Network. Any group, whether it defines
itself as local, issue-based, national or otherwise, may join if it
agrees with the Network's mission, objectives and demands




  Exchange information,
understanding and experiences related to our common agenda
  Strengthen the capacity of
member organizations of the Network
  Develop more capacity for
pressure and influence on policy, above all on governmental policy
  Educate and raise consciousness
on the situation in Honduras; the poverty, inequality and injustice and
the doubled repression that the people have suffered through the
military coup d'etat
  Support materially and
politically, the groups and communities that directly suffer the
injustice and repression from the golpistas


To join the Honduras Solidarity
Network, or if you have questions, write to: Quixote Center (toml at quixote.org) or La Voz de los de Abajo in Chicago (vickicervantes at yahoo.com).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

  

  

  

  

  

  

  




 		 	   		  
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