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¡Bajo Aguan Resiste!

Poor campesinos in the Aguan region, in need of a means of survival, are reclaiming lands that have been illegally and violently taken from them by wealthy land-owners backed by the regime.

Chixoy Dam

Thousands of impoverished Mayan-Achi campesinos were illegally and forcibly evicted from their villages along the Chixoy river to make way for the construction of a hydro-electric dam.

Violence in Guatemala doesn't occur in a vacuum. This massacre was not an incomprehensible act of violence, but a logical and predictable consequence of Guatemalan political, economic and military policies.

Defending Indigenous Land

¡La fuerza ancestral se levanta nuestras voces llenas de justicia y libertad! ¡Lempira, no solo es un nombre, Lempira es todo un pueblo! Lempira, vive y viene con nosotros desde el final de los olvidos.

Canadian Mining

Mayan Mam communities and families of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, in western Guatemala, have been harmed by Goldcorp Inc's mountain-top removal, open-pit, cyanide leaching gold mine.

Anti-Mining Activism

Mining corporations constantly try to expand their operations across Central America. But community members continue to resist in defense of their lives and environment.

Rights Action

Since 1995, Rights Action has been involved in activism aimed at critically understanding and changing unjust north-south, global economic, military and political relationships.

Honduras Coup Resistance

ON-GOING REPRESSION OF TEACHERS & PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT

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Wed, 2011-03-23

Dozens of people beaten, gassed, illegally detained. This follows on 5 days of brutal repression against Honduran teachers and the Pro-Democracy movement, including the killing of 59 year-old teacher Ilse Velasquez

59-YEAR OLD TEACHER KILLED / EDWIN ESPINAL RELEASED

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Sat, 2011-03-19

Ilse Velasquez, a 59-year old teacher, was hit and killed by a police tear-gas canister, March 18, 2011, during a peaceful protest in Tegucigalpa. Photo provided by: FNRP-Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular

ONE MORE DAY OF REPRESSION IN HONDURAS / EDWIN ESPINAL AT RISK

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Fri, 2011-03-18

In Honduras, yesterday, peaceful marches by the pro-democracy, anti-coup regime Resistance Movement in support of protesting teachers were violently repressed in many parts of Honduras. Many people were detained, beaten and tear-gassed.

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Rights Action – with tax-charitable status in the USA and Canada – funds community-controlled development, environmental, human rights and emergency-relief projects in Guatemala, Honduras, Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico) and El Salvador, and does education and activism work with North Americans to address global exploitation, repression, enviro-destruction and racism.

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