Honduras: URGENT ACTION - Two actions requested

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Honduras: URGENT ACTION - Two actions requested

Forward emails about the continuing violence in Honduras, much of it directed against teachers...from La Voz de los de Abajo, TSJ ally, and others:


Subject: Honduras: URGENT ACTION - Two actions requested


Compas, The violence and repression against the Hondruan Teachers and students continues. Yesterday more than 40 people were detained, 26 of them remain in custody. There were also at least 8 injuries, some of them serious. This was the fifth straight day of repression that has resulted in the death of one teacher. I have attached 3 photos from yesterday that were published by TeleSur. Please take action if you can today and tonight.

Victoria Cervantes
La Voz de los de Abajo


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Honduras Accompaniment Project - Two Urgent Actions Requested

1. The Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras (COFADEH) reports this morning that 26 people continue to be detained in the aftermath of yesterdays repression- including 6 minors. All are being held at the police station Core 7 Metropolitana.

Spanish Speakers: Please call 011-504-2237-6830 - and express your concern for their safety and that their human rights be respected - including freedom of expression..

English Speakers:

2. Calls are also needed to the State Department and US Embassy in Honduras. Please express your concern for the safety of Honduran Human Rights Defenders who have been in Washington DC this week - speaking with members of Congress and testifying before the Inter American Commission for Human Rights . These human rights defenders have documented and given testimony regarding intense repression in Honduras, impunity and the lack of rule of law. Please express your concern for their physical safety on their return to Honduras. Please call on the Government of the United States to strongly uphold the rights of Honduran human rights defenders to defend human rights.

US Embassy in Honduras: 011-504-2236-9320 or 2238-5114
State Department: 202- 647-3482 - Ben Gedan, Honduras desk officer
202-647-2126 - Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor

Thank you for accompanying front line human rights defenders and those they defend in Honduras.

Honduras Accompaniment Project



Subject: [Presente-Honduras] URGENT: Detention of Garifuna leader, Miriam Miranda of OFRANEH

Hi all,

Miriam Miranda, Garifuna leader of OFRANEH (Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras) was detained this morning (roughly an hour and a half ago) in the police post in Tela. Miriam was detained alone & apparently is hurt from tear gas burns.

Based on the information I have right now, Miriam along with various Garifuna communities were occupying a road in Triunfo de la Cruz protesting the attempt by the Lobo government to privatize education & limit the access to education for the Garifuna people.

The police post in Tela, where she is detained: 011-504-2448-2079. Demand her urgent release.

I will send out more information as it becomes available.

Karen
Tegucigalpa
Rights Action




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The Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee of the International Action Center & HondurasUSAResistencia urges everyone to read the following statement in solidarity with the people of Honduras. A wave of repression is sweeping the country and the movement in the US must say no. We urge everyone to organize an contingent in solidarity with Latin America & the Caribbean and the historic April 9 anti-war actions in NYC and San Francisco. Si se puede!



Honduras Solidarity Network


Urgent Appeal: Day of Action for Honduras – March 30th

Contact: Chuck Kaufman, Alliance for Global Justice, 202-544-9355 x1
Vicki Cervantes, La Voz de los de Abajo 312-259-5042

Local Action: To be announced by member organizations in each city.

“One Teacher Dead - Twenty teachers jailed for “sedition” and ‘illicit protests’. Teachers threatened with mass firings for their national strike against the repression and attacks.”

“Journalists attacked by police – Cameraman in hospital after police deliberately fire tear gas bomb at his face”

“Massive use of tear gas and beatings send teachers, students, and bystanders, including small children to the hospital”

This is the news from Honduras after a week of protests against the Lobo regime’s human rights violations, attacks against the unions, and plans to privatize education and public services. The army and police have forcibly occupied the National University and repeatedly assaulted the offices of the teachers’ unions. Peaceful protest marches have been violently attacked; many hundreds of tear gas bombs have been fired; one teacher has been killed in the protests, and many persons detained. At the same time the harassment and paramilitary threats against the peasant and indigenous communities in the countryside continue unchecked and with total impunity.

U.S. Government spends millions to support repression

While almost every day Human Rights organizations issue urgent alerts for Honduras, the U.S. government
is moving forward with its plans to “normalize” Honduras’ position in the international community and is trying to get Honduras reinstated in the Organization of American States (OAS); it was expelled after the military coup in June 2009. Furthermore, the U.S. has scheduled millions of dollars in aid to the illegitimate regime of Porfirio Lobo: $1.7 million dollars in direct aid to the military and an estimated $4.6 million in aid to the police and other security forces.

Since Lobo took power in January 2010, through elections that were not recognized by most international human rights groups and observers organizations such as the Carter Center, there have been as many as 36 political murders, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, these murders include teachers, peasants, members of anti-coup resistance groups and 8 journalists, and 14 members of the LGBT community.

Join us on March 30th – SAY NO!

· To the repression and human rights violations.
· To U.S. military, economic and political aide to Honduras.

Stand in solidarity with the March 30th civic strike called by the resistance organizations, unions, and student groups in Honduras.

Participate in local actions in your location.

Call and email:

Congressional Representatives and Senators (202-224-3121)

Department of State (Honduras Desk: 202-647-3482)
http://www.state.gov/

The White House (202-456-1111)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

Tell them of your concern for the human rights crises in Honduras and your demand to cut off aid to the Lobo regime and end efforts to reinstate Honduras in the OAS.

And SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION - Tell the Obama Administration, Congress, the U.N. and the media you demand an end to the repression in Honduras and that the recognition of the Porfirio Lobo government to be withdrawn, at

http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression/.



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