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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><b><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">Last week gunmen brutally murdered two members of Honduras's resistance movement, Ramón Ulises Castellanos and Miguel Sauceda. Please call Congress now to highlight ongoing violations in Honduras. </span></b></p>
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<h1>Next Steps on Honduras?<br>Call Congress Now</h1>
<p><b>This afternoon the House of Representatives is hosting a hearing entitled "Next Steps on Honduras." </b>The hearing follows Secretary of State Clinton's announcement earlier this month that the U.S. will restore military aid to Honduras, based on her impression that Honduras has reached a "successful conclusion of the crisis…without violence." Clinton's words ring hollow to the family of Ramón Ulises Castellanos and Miguel Sauceda, two farmworkers of the resistance movement shot to death last Friday. Since Porfirio Lobo took office in late January, Honduras has suffered seven such politically-motivated assassinations. <br>
<br><b>Amidst systematic intimidation, arrests, and murders of Honduras's active resistance movement, a reinstatement of U.S. military aid is unconscionable. </b>We have joined 40 organizations in sending <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vHL3BosHulkbY0CvMEVdhjr3LZDNn17o" target="_blank">a letter to key Congressional offices</a> that details the alarming situation in Honduras. These grave concerns need to be raised in today's hearing on the future of U.S.-Honduras relations. To ensure that they are, please call and email your representative right now:<br>
<br><b>1. Call your House representative</b>, ask for the foreign policy staffer's email, and then ask to speak to the staffer. (If you don't know your representative's number, call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and give your address). Upon being connected with the staffer (or her/his voicemail), ask the staffer to attend the Honduras hearing at 2pm and to express concern about the ongoing violations of human rights. <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KubN2%2BsCwHNwGu4P3I7XATr3LZDNn17o" target="_blank">Click here to use our letter to Congress for talking points</a>. <br>
<b><br>2. Send the foreign policy staffer a quick follow-up email. </b> Attach to the email our letter raising concerns about U.S. policy toward Honduras: <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Cfl27TcH2Fo0T2At3uUC2Tr3LZDNn17o" target="_blank">download the letter here</a>. <br>
<br>Hondurans are asking for our support in gaining U.S. policies that would halt, not whitewash, ongoing human rights violations. Please heed their call by making your call to Congress now. <br> <br>In solidarity, <br>
<br><img style="MIN-HEIGHT: 53px; WIDTH: 161px" alt="" src="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5436/images/Ben%20Signature.jpg"><br>Ben Beachy<br>National Grassroots Organizer<br><br>P.S. Hondurans need your support today. Please call Congress now and ask that the truth about ongoing violations be shared in today's hearing. </p>
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