As a criminal trial continues into its 6th week against David Castillo, paid coordinator of the hit squad that assassinated COPINH co-founder Berta Caceres on March 3, 2016, as OFRANEH and the SUNLA investigation team continue to demand justice for the forced disappearance of four Garifuna community defenders on July 18, 2020, La Lucha Sigue - directed by Sam Vinal (Mutual Aid Media) - has been released, documenting COPINH and OFRANEH-led Indigenous and Black resistance in Honduras.
Read moreU.S. & Canada continue push for illegal, harmful & violent regime change in Venezuela →
Below: “Venezuela conference another example of Liberal hypocrisy”, by Yves Engler
Was it conscious? Did someone at Global Affairs say, ‘we should organize a lofty sounding conference
that’s a cover for our pro-US and corporate policy on the anniversary of the international community rejecting Trudeau’s liberal imperialism’?
No more apologies. Former Residential School should be declared crime scenes Now is a time for justice →
Crimes committed against First Nations children in Canada’s Residential Schools system include physical abuse, torture, sexual abuse, criminal negligence resulting in death by malnutrition, disease and accident, desecration of the dead, and more.
The Residential Schools system itself should be considered a component of multi-generational government policies that amount to the crimes of ethnocide and genocide. These policies predate the formation of Canada in 1867, and were a fundamental part of European imperialism and colonialism.
Aura Minerals cyanide waste discharges kill horses and fish in Azacualpa, Honduras →
Aura Minerals (and MINOSA, its Honduran subsidiary) immediately sent machinery and personnel (May 31, 2021) to remove animals found dead after drinking water from creeks down river from Aura Minerals cyanide treatment pools where they use cyanide and other chemicals to separate the gold off from other minerals and materials. Photo: Azacualpa Environmental Committee
Such are the operations of the global mining industry in Honduras, supported by the military-backed, corrupt Honduran regime, and the US and Canadian governments. (From 2002-2017, Rights Action regularly published photos (such as these here) from communities and local environments devasted by Goldcorp Inc.’s cyanide-leaching, open-pit mining operations in Honduras and Guatemala.)
Read moreDescargas de cianuro por Aura Minerals (MINOSA) matan caballos y peces en Azacualpa, Honduras →
Aura Minerals / MINOSA (su filial hondureña) enviaron inmediatamente maquinaria y personal (31 mayo 2021) para retirar los animales encontrados muertos después de beber agua de los arroyos río abajo de las piscinas de tratamiento de cianuro de Aura Minerals, donde utilizan cianuro y otros productos químicos para separar el oro de otros minerales y materiales. Foto: Comité Ambiental de Azacualpa
Así son las operaciones de la industria minera mundial en Honduras, apoyada por el régimen hondureño corrupto y militarizado, y por los gobiernos de Estados Unidos y Canadá. (Entre 2002 y 2017, Rights Action publicó con regularidad fotos (como las que se muestran aqui) de comunidades devastados por las operaciones mineras de lixiviación con cianuro y a cielo abierto de Goldcorp Inc. en Honduras y Guatemala.)
Read moreAction needed: Justice for Berta Caceres →
US & Cdn-backed Honduran regime must prosecute DESA executives, including Atala Zablah family, who knew of and paid for killing of Berta Caceres
Below: COPINH's request for action
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May 31, 1921: The Tulsa race massacre of 300 African Americans →
Reparations are long overdue for Tulsa massacre
One hundred years ago, Tulsa Oklahoma's thriving African-American neighborhood of Greenwood, known as "Black Wall Street" for its concentration of successful, Black-owned businesses, was burned to the ground by a white mob. The violence grew from a confrontation at the Tulsa courthouse, where whites had been massing to abduct and lynch a jailed African-American man who had been wrongfully accused of assaulting a white woman.
Read moreCargill Corp., Nestle & other companies profiting from violent, corrupt, destructive African palm oil production in Guatemala →
“… indicators of human trafficking and forced labor
and other severe forms of labor exploitation.”
Organizational sign-on deadline: June 3, 2021
Day 25, Berta Caceres trial in Honduras: Assassins exposed →
Karen Spring’s trial updates
Below: “The assassins of Berta Caceres are exposed”, by Edy Tábora
Read moreStill exhuming victims of US-backed Guatemalan genocides and massacres, 39 years later →
Below: BBC news report and photos by James Rodriguez
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