Urgent Appeal: Day of Action for Honduras – March 30th
The Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee of the
International Action Center & HondurasUSAResistencia urges everyone to read
the following statement in solidarity with the people of Honduras. A wave of
repression is sweeping the country and the movement in the US must say no. We
urge everyone to organize an contingent in solidarity with Latin America &
the Caribbean and the historic April 9 anti-war actions in NYC and San
Francisco. Si se puede!
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.”
* “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.
And SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION - Tell the Obama Administration, Congress, the
U.N. and the media you demand an end to the repression in Honduras and that the
recognition of the Porfirio Lobo government to be withdrawn, at
http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression/.
o Share information about Honduras and this call for action with your
friends and neighbors.
