Rights Action - 2009
REPRESSION & POVERTY
HOPE & RESISTANCE
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & COMMUNITY CONTROLLED DEVELOPMENT
Below, some high-lights of our work in 2009.  This work of resistance and justice is not possible without your financial support.  To make a donation, tax-deductible in 2009, see below.
In 2009, we channeled over $750,000 of grants and individual donations to partner groups in Guatemala and Honduras, as well as in Chiapas, El Salvador and Peru; and carried out and coordinated technical support, education and activism work addressing the underlying causes of exploitation and poverty, environmental destruction and repression.
HONDURAS PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT
Since the June 28 military-oligarchic coup against the government of President Zelaya in Honduras, we channeled over $75,000 to the anti-coup, pro-democracy movement in Honduras.  This courageous and visionary struggle – against a military-oligarchy dominated government and society, in favor of the re-founding of the nation and society - continues in 2010.
SCHOOLS & SCHOLARSHIPS
Since 1996, this program area has grown into funds and support for 12 community-based visionary schools and scholarship programs in mainly Mayan communities in rural Guatemala.
REFORESTATION & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
After the devastation of Hurricane Stan, 2005, we fund reforestation and community environmental defense projects in Mayan communities in the dry corridor (corredor seco) of central and eastern Guatemala.
MINING & DAMS * versus * COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
In Honduras and Guatemala, as well as Peru and El Salvador, we fund and work with communities and watershed regions harmed by mainly Canadian gold, silver and nickel mining companies, as well as hydro-electric dam projects.  These are comprehensive struggles: community controlled development, human rights, environmental justice and disaster response.
EMERGENCY & DISASTER RESPONSE
We provided rapid response funds and support to:

NORTH-SOUTH EDUCATION & ACTIVISM
It is Rights Action’s understanding that the injustices our partner groups are working to address – environmental harm, military coups, repression, exploitation and poverty – are national and global, north-south issues at the same time.  We led educational delegations of North Americans to Honduras and Guatemala and brought community leaders to Canada and the USA on speaking tours to learn and educate about the range of issues.
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VARIOUS INFORMATIONS

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MAKE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS
Make check (dated December 31, 2009) 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

www.rightsaction.org / info@rightsaction.org
Rights Action (with tax-deductible status in Canada and USA) funds and works with indigenous, development, environment and human rights organizations in Guatemala and Honduras, and also in El Salvador and Chiapas; and educates about and is involved in activism related to global development, environmental and indigenous and human rights struggles.

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