[HNA] Fwd: March 30Call Out Honduras Solidarity Network (2)

[Proyecto Hondureño]

*Honduras** Solidarity Network*

Urgent Appeal: Day of Action for Honduras – March 30th



Contact:          Chuck Kaufman, Alliance for Global Justice, 202-544-9355
x1

                   Vicki Cervantes, La Voz de los de Abajo   312-259-5042




Local Action: To be announced by member organizations in each city.




   - “One Teacher Dead - Twenty teachers jailed for “sedition” and ‘illicit
   protests’. Teachers threatened with mass firings for their national strike
   against the repression and attacks.”
   -

ÜPhotos: Teacher Ilse Velasquez, killed on March 18 & teachers detained in
Tegucigalpa



   - “Journalists attacked by police – Cameraman in hospital after police
   deliberately fire tear gas bomb at his face”
   - “Massive use of tear gas and beatings send teachers, students, and
   bystanders, including small children to the hospital”





This is the news from Honduras after a week of protests against the Lobo
regime’s human rights violations, attacks against the unions, and plans to
privatize education and public services. The army and police have forcibly
occupied the National University and repeatedly assaulted the offices of the
teachers’ unions. Peaceful protest marches have been violently attacked;
many hundreds of tear gas bombs have been fired; one teacher has been killed
in the protests, and many persons detained.  At the same time the harassment
and paramilitary threats against the peasant and indigenous communities in
the countryside continue unchecked and with total impunity.

* *

*U.S.** Government spends millions to support repression***

While almost every day Human Rights organizations issue urgent alerts for
Honduras, the U.S. government
 is moving forward with its plans to
“normalize” Honduras’ position in the international community and is trying
to get Honduras reinstated in the Organization of American States (OAS); it
was expelled after the military coup in June 2009. Furthermore, the U.S. has
scheduled millions of dollars in aid to the illegitimate regime of Porfirio
Lobo: $1.7 million dollars in direct aid to the military and an estimated
$4.6 million in aid to the police and other security forces.



Since Lobo took power in January 2010, through elections that were not
recognized by most international human rights groups and observers
organizations such as the Carter Center, there have been as many as 36
political murders, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, these
murders include teachers, peasants, members of anti-coup resistance groups
and 8 journalists, and 14 members of the LGBT community.



Join us on March 30th – SAY NO!

·        to the repression and human rights violations.

·        to U.S. military, economic and political aide to Honduras.



Stand in solidarity with the March 30th civic strike called by the
resistance organizations, unions, and student groups in Honduras.



·        Participate in local actions in your location.

·        Call and email:

o       Congressional Representatives and Senators (202-224-3121)

o       Department of State (Honduras Desk: 202-647-3482)

http://www.state.gov/

o       The White House (202-456-1111)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

Tell them of your concern for the human rights crises in Honduras and your
demand to cut off aid to the Lobo regime and end efforts to reinstate
Honduras in the OAS.

·        Share information about Honduras and this call for action with your
friends and neighbors.





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From: Tito Meza <ameza at somervillecdc.org>
Date: 2011/3/28
Subject: March 30Call Out Honduras Solidarity Network (2)
To: Proyecto Hondureño <proyectohondureno at gmail.com>
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