Action Items: Call and write to the Department of State: Call Benjamin Gedan, Honduras Desk Officer, at (202) 647-3482, or email him at: [email protected] Tell him that it is a violation of US law for US-supplied weapons to be used to repress civilian populations and that you demand that the US cut off all military…
Honduras
Delegations & tours, Honduras, News
Honduran Peasants Resist Evictions, Murders and Attacks
The Alliance for Global Justice recently sponsored a delegation to Honduras. The attached document is the report produced by delegation participants and is based on the events the saw and people they met during their time in the country. Please read the Honduras Delegation Report here.
Action alerts, Honduras, Militarism
Emergency Actions Needed – Honduras
The following emergency alert is a compilation of alerts initiated by the Friendship Office of the Americas and Rights Action. * Honduras Rigores community threatened with violent eviction * Calls needed by Spanish speakers * Emergency funding needed for community whose homes were destroyed * Watch video of police destroying homes On July 1, a…
Audio-visual, Honduras, News
Footage of Honduras Eviction
This video was created by The Real News and can be viewed on their website.
Eco-Solidarity, Honduras, News
Honduras Accompaniment and Food Sovereignty Delegation
Date: January 6-15, 2012 Sponsored by: Alliance for Global Justice Since the June 2009 military coup, large landowners in the fertile Aguan Valley of Northern Honduras have used the military, police, and private security guards, to terrorize villages and expand their lucrative African palm plantations.
Chuck Kaufman, Honduras, News
AfGJ Files Complaint Over US Honduras Embassy Endangerment of US Citizens
The following complaint was submitted through the office of Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) by AfGJ National Co-Coordinator Chuck Kaufman after he returned from leading a delegation to Honduras that had a dangerous stand-off with Honduran Police. July 18, 2011 Dear Rep. Raul Grijalva: I recently returned to my home in Tucson
Delegations & tours, Honduras, News
Human Rights Violations Continue in Honduras
By Caitlin Roberts (She attended the AFGJ delegation to Honduras earlier this month. This piece was originally published in Works in Progress.) U.S. imperialism is alive and well, this much we know. Here in Honduras, rifle-bearing soldiers and cops, or perhaps police dressed in military garb, or perhaps private security guards borrowing police uniforms –…
Democracy, Haiti, Honduras, News, Venezuela
When Threats and Economic Blackmail Fail, US Sponsored Coups Follow
By Diana Bohn (Bohn is a member of the AFGJ board. The following is a based in part on the LASC workshop she attended.) The workshop entitled “When Threats and Economic Blackmail Fail, US Sponsored Coups Follow” at the LASC Militarization Conference focused on Haiti, Honduras & Venezuela with speakers representing each of those countries,…
Action alerts, Honduras
AFGJ one of 107 Co-Signers on Letter to OAS
To Whom It May Concern: Just days after the June 28, 2009 military coup d’etat overthrew the constitutional, elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the Organization of American States voted unanimously to suspend Honduras from the OAS. Since that time the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on multiple occasions has confirmed the existence of…
Action alerts, Honduras
Honduras: Congressional Human Rights Initiative
The following alert was originally circulated by the Honduras Solidarity Network (of which AFGJ is a member). Please call your U.S. Representative and ask them to sign the McGovern- Schakowsky- Farr “Dear Colleague” Congressional letter on Honduras! The Honduran People and the Honduras Solidarity Network need your help ASAP to move a critical congressional initiative…
