Rights Action - April 30, 2011
Honduras Military-Backed Regime
Repression & Impunity Watch
BELOW:
Links to 2 recent documentary news reports (by The Real News) about on-going repression, by the military backed regime in Honduras, against the amazing people's pro-democracy movement
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REPORT FROM LAND OCCUPATIONS IN POST-COUP HONDURAS:
Poor farmers are taking land from agribusiness that supported the 2009 military coup - and paying with their lives
(The Real News, March 31, 2011, 9:46 minutes)
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6513
HONDURAN TEACHERS GET SHOCK TREATMENT
Post-coup regime in Honduras carrying out unprecedented assault on the most organized sector of the resistance, the teachers
(The Real News, April 28, 2011, 18:34 minutes)
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6635
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WHAT TO DO - DELEGATION TO GUATEMALA
RIGHTS ACTION DELEGATION: JULY 3 TO 10, 2011
"ELECTIONS; NO DEMOCRACY"
Join a Rights Action delegation to Guatemala from July 3 to 10, 2011. This pre-elections delegation will speak with human rights and social movement organizations struggling to create conditions for truly democratic processes, and limit the control organized crime and big business hold over the state through illegal networks of influence.
MEET WITH:
Human rights organizations pressing forward the 'exemplary cases' against war crimes; even as they meet constant setbacks;
Land rights movements of communities that support each other against the appropriation of their lands by politically influential plantation owners and organized crime bosses;
Indigenous rights movements that seek full recognition of their rights including recognition of traditional authorities and their territory;
Justice reform activists who seek to reform legal mechanisms that maintain impunity and criminalize human rights defenders; and
Communities defending their territory against transnational interests (mines, dams or biofuels) backed by political power holders.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Annie Bird; (202) 680-3002, annie@rightsaction.org
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WHAT TO DO - MAKE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS for HONDURAS' PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT
To make a tax-deductible donation for community based organizations in Honduras' pro-democracy movement working to defend human rights and the environment and to eradicate poverty and re-found their nation-state, make check payable to "Rights Action" and mail to:
UNITED STATES: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
CANADA: 552 - 351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8
CREDIT-CARD DONATIONS: http://rightsaction.org/contributions.htm; or go to: www.rightsaction.org. (Credit card donations can be done anonymously)
FOR DONATION OF STOCK: contact info@rightsaction.org. (Stock donations can be done anonymously - have your stockbroker contact info@rightsaction.org)
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, MORE INFORMATION???
Annie Bird, annie@rightsaction.org
Karen Spring, in Tegucigalpa, spring.kj@gmail.com
Grahame Russell, info@rightsaction.org
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