For non US citizens this is another good way to put pressure... email your embassy...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Global Women's Strike/Phila</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philly@crossroadswomen.net">philly@crossroadswomen.net</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:13 AM<br>Subject: Crowds rounded up in Honduras-Act NOW<br>To: <a href="mailto:kaveri.rajaraman@gmail.com">kaveri.rajaraman@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial">Dear sisters and brothers,</span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial">The democratically elected president of Honduras,
Manuel Zelaya, who was removed by
a military coup in June has returned to Honduras
and is under the protection of the Brazilian embassy. He spoke from the
embassy to thousands of supporters who were shot at and gassed by police.
Tear gas was also used against the embassy itself. According to
eyewitness accounts (see Spanish below), a number of people were killed, we
don’t know how many, many more have been wounded, hundreds have been arrested
and thousands prevented from entering the capital Tegucigalpa.
The Brazilian government has lodged a formal complaint with the
Security Council.</span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial">With the world governments assembled at the UN in New
York, we are being urged to send emails, faxes and to
call the UN Missions of the different governments. See below for model
letter and addresses to send to. Please take the time to do this
ASAP. Thank you.</span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial">Nina López
for the Global Women’s Strike</span></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:james@afgj.org" target="_blank">james@afgj.org</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:22 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Crowds rounded up in Honduras-Act NOW</span></p>
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DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK IN HONDURAS!
PEOPLE BEING ROUNDED UP IN STADIUMS, THE BRAZILIAN EMBASSY IS UNDER
SIEGE!</span></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:#0000CC"></span></p>
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Please write immediately to the UN missions members of the Economic and
Social Council of the United Nations, from Canada, United States,
United Kingdom, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Sweden and others, IMMEDIATELY. The contact information
for all the listed missions is below the sample letter.<br>
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Demand that the United Nations immediately impose an economic blockaid
on Honduras, a
demand of the National Front of Resistance to the Coup against Honduras.
The United Nations initiated a session today. <br>
<br>
Honduran President Manuel
Zelaya yesterday arrived in Honduras,
and is in the Brazilian Embassy. The defacto government is attacking
protesters who have gathered
around the Brazilian Embassy to protect the constitutionally elected
President Manuel
Zelaya. Dangerous quantities of tear gas are being used around
the Brazilian embassy at a level that puts in danger the lives of the
Brazilian diplomatic corps, President Zelaya, and neighbors of the
Embassy. <br>
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According to radio reports in Honduras,
protesters are being rounded
up and held in stadiums. Live ammunition has been used against
protesters along with
extreme beatings. Masked men accompany police and military.
Deaths of protesters are
rumored. The offices of leading Honduran human rights
organization COFADEH was attacked with tear gas. A curfew is in
effect and scheduled to begin at 4 pm, and extreme repression during
the curfew is expected.<br>
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Over the past 88 days the Resistance Front has maintained constant
protests of thousands of protester
daily. <br>
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SAMPLE LETTER<br>
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Esteemed Ambassador:<br>
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I write to request that in your capacity as a member of the United
Nations Economic and Social Council you propose a resolution to
obligate members of the United Nations to impose a trade bock aid
against Honduras.
In this way the non recognition of the de facto regime that came to
power through a military coup on June 28, 2009 will be made effective.<br>
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Today the coup regime is undertaking a direct attack on the Embassy of
Brazil, where the constitucional President of Honduras,
Manuel Zelaya is
located. They are using dangerous levels of tear gas, and have fired
live ammunition; acts that put at risk the lives and wellbeing of
hundreds of members of Brazils
diplomatic corpse and thousands of people in the street and homes
around the embassy. This repression is the latest in 88 days of
repression by the coup government.<br>
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For this reason it is urgent that an economic blockaid be imposed and
that the possibility of a peace keeping mission be discussed.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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United Nations Missions in the Economic and Social Council of the
United Nations<br>
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Canada<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:canada@un.int" target="_blank">canada@un.int</a>
or <a href="mailto:prmny@international.gc.ca" target="_blank">prmny@international.gc.ca</a><br>
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United States<br>
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United Kingdom<br>
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France<br>
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India<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Amigas, amigos:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Me encuentro en un edificio cercano a la Embajada de Brasil junto a 30
compañeras y compañeros, la mayoría integrantes de Artistas del Frente
Nacional Contra el Golpe de Estado.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Nos avocamos a este lugar para descansar, manteniendo la conciencia de
que de un momento a otro el ejército y la policía entrarían al perímetro
donde alrededor de 5,000 personas nos encontrábamos para darle protección al
Presidente Manuel Zelaya.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Atacaron a las 5:45 am con fusilería y lacrimógenas. Mataron a un número
indeterminado de compañeros de la primera barricada al final del Puente
Guancaste. Rodearon y atacaron la barricada del puente de La Reforma.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Haciendo cálculos aproximados, el operativo contó con alrededor de 1,000
efectivos policiales y militares.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Arrinconaron y golpearon. 18 heridos graves en el Hospital Escuela.
Siguen persiguiendo en el Barrio Morazán y en le Barrio Guadalupe a los
bravos estudiantes que anoche organizaron las precarias barricadas.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">En este momento son las 8:00 am. Frente a la Embajada de Brasil han
colocado un altoparlante con el himno nacional a todo volumen mientras catean
las casas aledañas a la Embajada. Lanzaron bombas lacrimógenas dentro de la
Embajada. El Presidente continúa en su interior amenazado por los golpistas
que ya argumentaron a través de los medios sus razones "legales"
para proceder al allanamientos.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Miles de personas que se dirigían hacia Tegucigalpa han sido retenidas en
los alrededores de la ciudad. La ciudad está completamente vacía, fantasmal.
El toque de queda fue extendido para todo el día.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">La represión contra los manifestantes indefensos fue brutal. En varias
ocasiones Radio Globo y Canal 36 han sido sacados del aire.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Cientos de presos.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Estamos aislados.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Aquí estamos el núcleo principal de los organizadores de los grandes
eventos culturales en resistencia: poetas, cantautores, músicos, fotógrafos,
cineastas, pintores y pintoras... humanos.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:14.65pt"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">De XXX</span></b><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana;color:blue"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Estamos SECUESTRADOS... NUEVAMENTE
REPRIMIDOS:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Llevamos 17 horas de toque de queda. Y seguimos hasta las 6 de la tarde
de hoy martes.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">(no dudamos que lo extiendan... igual paso en el departamento de El
Paraíso hace dos meses)</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Los MILITARES y los POLICIAS han invadido la privacidad de los vecinos al
par de la EMBAJADA DE BRASIL.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">La policia y los militares...han quebrado
los vidrios de los carros y motos de las personas de la resistencia, estan
quemando sus carros (ellos los habían dejado ahí, como retenes)</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">Se habla de tres muertos, heridos (a los heridos que se trasladarón a los
hospitales... los militares los están sacando
de los hospitales)</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:Verdana">A los atrapados los llevan al estadio Chochi Sosa. ( lo mismo hizo
Pinochet)</span></p>
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