DAY 61 – HONDURAS COUP RESISTANCE = 10 minute news piece by the REALnews
[Alert#54 / August 27, 2009]
Please watch this 10 minute news piece, by Jesse Freeston of the REALnews, contrasting the weak if not complicit role the “international community” is playing with the extraordinarily dignified and inspiring Honduran people’s movement … even in the face of daily and often brutal military repression.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4149
AT BOTTOM:
- to donate tax-deductible funds to the people’s peaceful pro-democracy movement in Honduras
- more information & what to do?
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View the REALnews piece by Jesse Freeston:
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4149
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WHAT TO DO
AMERICANS & CANADIANS should contact our members of congress, senators & members of parliament every day, day after day, send copies of this information, and demand:
- unequivocal denunciation of the military coup
- no recognition of this military coup and the ‘de facto’ government of Roberto Micheletti
- an end to police, army and para-military repression and respect for safety and human rights of all Hondurans
- no recognition of the November 2009 elections, that candidates are campaigning for, even as the country is militarized and repression is widespread
- unconditional return of the entire constitutional government of President Zelaya
- concrete and targeted economic, military and diplomatic sanctions against the coup plotters and perpetrators
- application of international and national justice against the coup plotters and perpetrators
- reparations to the victims for the illegal actions and rights violations committed during this illegal coup
TO DONATE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE FUNDS to the peaceful, people’s pro-democracy movement in honduras, make check 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
For foundations and institutional donors, Rights Action can (upon request) provide a full proposal of which organizations and people we are channeling funds to and supporting.
FOR MORE INFORMATION & TO GET INVOLVED:
Karen Spring (Rights Action) in Honduras: [504]9507-3835, spring.kj@gmail.com
Grahame Russell (Rights Action), in USA: 1-860-352-2448,
info@rightsaction.org
See Rights Action’s previous Honduras Coup Alerts: www.rightsaction.org