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14th June 2016, 18:23
June 15 Rally for Justice for Berta Caceres, Honduran Consulate. Sign the On-Line Letter, WBEZ today at noon on Honduras
Wednesday June 15 is an International Day for Justice for Berta Caceres. It has been called by Berta's family and her indigenous organization COPINH. Berta was the Honduran indigenous leader and winner of the prestigious Goldman environmental prize on March 3.
Please sign and send this on line letter to the Honduran president and ambassador to the US, as well as the US State Department.
http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7315/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=23131
Join the world in a day of action for Berta Caceres!
We will be at the Honduran Consulate in Chicago demanding an independent full investigation of Berta's assassination by the IAHRC and and the cancelation of the Agua Zarco project. We demand that the US government stop military and security aid to Honduras now and stop all funding to Agua Zarca and projects like it.
Wednesday June 15, 11am - 1pm
Honduran Consulate: 4439 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago
https://www.facebook.com/events/1021169234639317/?active_tab=posts
The family and friends of Berta Caceres consider the Honduran government's investigation of her murder a cover-up of its complicity and is demanding an independent investigation by the InterAmerican Human Rights Commission.
The Agua Zarco hydro-electric dam project is a project that Berta Caceres and the community she represented were organizing to oppose because planned along a river sacred to the indigenous Lenca people.
The US government has given about $65 million in military and security aid to Honduras since the 2009 coup - in an effort to aid the coup government in repressing the popular movement against the coup.
Honduras has increasingly become a hub for U.S. military operations in Central America
Today, Tuesday June 14th listen to Worldview on WBEZ at noon to hear an interview with the coordinator of COPINH, Honduras. (Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras) Tomás Gómez Membreño and La Voz's own Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle.
For more information:
http://soaw.org/about-us/equipo-sur/263-stories-from-honduras/4401-june-15-global-day-of-action-demanding-justice-for-berta
Wednesday June 15 is an International Day for Justice for Berta Caceres. It has been called by Berta's family and her indigenous organization COPINH. Berta was the Honduran indigenous leader and winner of the prestigious Goldman environmental prize on March 3.
Please sign and send this on line letter to the Honduran president and ambassador to the US, as well as the US State Department.
http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7315/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=23131
Join the world in a day of action for Berta Caceres!
We will be at the Honduran Consulate in Chicago demanding an independent full investigation of Berta's assassination by the IAHRC and and the cancelation of the Agua Zarco project. We demand that the US government stop military and security aid to Honduras now and stop all funding to Agua Zarca and projects like it.
Wednesday June 15, 11am - 1pm
Honduran Consulate: 4439 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago
https://www.facebook.com/events/1021169234639317/?active_tab=posts
The family and friends of Berta Caceres consider the Honduran government's investigation of her murder a cover-up of its complicity and is demanding an independent investigation by the InterAmerican Human Rights Commission.
The Agua Zarco hydro-electric dam project is a project that Berta Caceres and the community she represented were organizing to oppose because planned along a river sacred to the indigenous Lenca people.
The US government has given about $65 million in military and security aid to Honduras since the 2009 coup - in an effort to aid the coup government in repressing the popular movement against the coup.
Honduras has increasingly become a hub for U.S. military operations in Central America
Today, Tuesday June 14th listen to Worldview on WBEZ at noon to hear an interview with the coordinator of COPINH, Honduras. (Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras) Tomás Gómez Membreño and La Voz's own Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle.
For more information:
http://soaw.org/about-us/equipo-sur/263-stories-from-honduras/4401-june-15-global-day-of-action-demanding-justice-for-berta