folks -<br> here's another state dept. number you can try - 202-647-3482. - they stopped answering the first number,(below) at least for a while, after they got the first few calls. <br> phoebe k.<br><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Brian O'Connell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vinniechops@hotmail.com">vinniechops@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<pre>Friends, </pre><pre> </pre><pre>As you may or may not know, the social situation in Honduras is getting worse by the week, continuing a downward spiral started by the US sponsored Coup last June. There are regular death squad-style murders of social leaders and unionists, almost weekly now. </pre>
<pre> </pre><pre>And now the Honduran military, apparently with US air support, is occupying a large area of the country to suppress democracy. Two cooperatives - Guadalupe Carney and El Remolino are particularly at risk. </pre>
<pre> </pre><pre>-brian</pre><pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre>Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:12:52 <br></pre><pre>From: Tom Loudon <<a href="mailto:toml@quixote.org" target="_blank">toml@quixote.org</a>>
Subject: [HNA] Please Call the State Department about emergency in Aguan,Honduras<br>
Dear Friend,<br><br>
We are writing to ask you to call the U.S. State Department <br>regarding alarming developments in the Aguan region of Honduras where <br>over 3,500 peasant families are currently at risk. The peasant families <br>are part of the Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguan who have <br>
suffered intense repression in the last months due to land disputes with <br>wealthy businessmen. <br><br><br></pre><pre>In the last 24 hours, as many as 5000 troops, police and commando units <br>have moved into the region. The military has taken total control of <br>
roads leading into the region and a curfew was announced by the Honduran <br>Government. Honduran Human Rights Organizations <br><br></pre><pre><<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquixote.org%2Furgent-communication-cofadeh-emergency-agu%25C3%25A1n" target="_blank">http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquixote.org%2Furgent-communication-cofadeh-emergency-agu%25C3%25A1n</a>> <br>
<br></pre><pre>have issued alerts to the international community fearing a potential <br>massacre. Two cooperatives - Guadalupe Carney and El Remolino are<br>particularly at risk. <br>
We have also received disturbing reports of U.S. air support for this <br>military operation in the Aguan. Otto Reich is currently in Honduras <br>reported to be meeting with representatives of the extreme right wing of <br>
the Honduran power elite.<br>
Please call Ambassador Craig Kelly at the U.S. State Department <br>(202-647-6754) today and express your alarm about a potential for <br>violent repression of peasant farmers in the Aguan and the participation <br>of U.S. air support in this operation. Check the Quixote Center <br>
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web site for updates.<br><br></pre><pre></pre><pre>Jenny Atlee,<br><br>
</pre><pre>Quixote Center<br>
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