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Canada supports an undemocratic post-coup Honduras

Presidents Porfirio Lobo of Honduras (left) and Álvaro Colom of Guatemala (right) at the World Coffee Conference in February 2010.  Photo: Gobierno de Guatemala/Flickr

One year ago last week, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya woke up with a gun pointed at his head, was forced onto a plane by the military, and expelled from the country. Many fear that Central America's first coup in more than 15 years could mean the resumption of a painful era of dictatorships, military coups and civil wars. In a remarkable display of unanimity, the world promptly condemned the democratic interruption, with denunciations reverberating from the United States to Cuba, and resolutions emanating from the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS). Not a single country recognized the coup regime.

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Honduran Congress consults with Canadian government and mining companies, but not its own people

| April 25, 2012
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Smash the State Report: Dick is Scared, Quebec Students Strike, and Resistencia

March 28, 2012
| 10 (more) reasons to support the quebec student strike (#strikeeverywhere), followed by Dick Cheney's announcement that he is afraid of Canada because he is a war criminal, and some upcoming doc-talk.

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Protest in Vancouver as Harper visits Honduras

Aug 12 2011 - 12:00pm

Location

Outside Goldcorp corporate headquarters
666 Burrard St ((at Dunsmuir, across from Burrard Skytrain St)
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Rights Action has issued a call to action to protest Stephen Harper's visit to Honduras this Friday:

"The visit of Prime Minister Harper to Honduras will be the first by a foreign leader since Honduras was re-admitted into the Organization of American States (OAS), in a controversial decision in June of this year (given the on-going repression and the fundamental lack of democracy) and follows upon the May 2011 'Honduras is Open for Business' conference organized by the country's economic elites in an effort to attract foreign investments."

Honduran police burn community to the ground

Homes, churches, schools and crops all destroyed as the post-coup government continues to side with wealthy plantation owners over the country's organized farmers.


Producer: Jesse Freeston, The Real News

Picket in solidarity with the people of Honduras

Jun 28 2011 - 4:00pm
Jun 28 2011 - 6:00pm

Location

U.S. Consulate
1075 West Pender @ Thurlow
Vancouver , BC
Canada
49° 15' 40.4136" N, 123° 6' 50.1372" W

The Solidarity Coalition for a United Latin-America holds successful forum in solidarity with the people of Honduras; next event is a protest picket on June 28th at the U.S. Consulate in Vancouver marking the 2 year anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup in Honduras.

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Carmen
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SlutWalk lands in Tegucigalpa

Honduran capital's "Marcha de las Putas" is the latest site for the international movement against blaming victims for sexual violence. The Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa is the latest in roughly 80 cities internationally to hold a SlutWalk. Marchers in Honduras came out for a variety of reasons including: bringing an end to street harassment, demanding an end to the rising rate of murdered women in the country, reproductive rights in a country where the morning after pill is banned and abortion carries a 3- to 6-year prison sentence.

Produced by Jesse Freeston. For more visit www.therealnews.com

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Demanding an end to violence and repression in Honduras

While most in the United States were recognizing Memorial Day with a three-day weekend, the people of Honduras were engaged in a historic event: the return of President Manuel Zelaya, 23 months after he was forced into exile at gunpoint in the first coup in Central America in a quarter-century. While he is no longer president, his peaceful return marks a resounding success for the opponents of the coup. Despite this, the post-coup government in Honduras, under President Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, is becoming increasingly repressive, and is the subject this week of a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signed by 87 members of the U.S. Congress, calling for suspension of aid to the Honduran military and police.

theRealnews: Honduran teachers get shock treatment

A report from various communities in Honduras where the regime imposed by a 2009 military coup has opened up an all-out attack on the country's teachers. Honduras' teachers are, in the eyes of many, the most organized sector of the anti-coup resistance movement. Over recent months they have had their pensions stolen, their wages cut, their labor rights suspended, and a new education law passed which they believe is the beginning of the privatization process. In response, the teachers and the National People's Resistance Front have occupied institutions, roads and highways across the country, to which the regime has responded with brute force.

Produced by Jesse Freeston.

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