Call to organizations of the popular movement and all the people to join the “big general strike”

Call to organizations of the popular movement and all the people to join the “big general strike”

Domingo 29 de Agosto de 2010 22:43 RED MORAZÁNICA DE INFORMACIÓN

Tegucigalpa. The Regional Committee of the General Strike today, issued its bulletin number one, in which it summons all the organizations of the popular movement and the people, to “ join in the big general strike in defence of our sacred rights won in historical struggles ” .
It was announced that the strike is in the preparatory stage, and already the Central Strike Committee has been organized, in addition to the strike committees for the North, Central, South zones and the committees of the base organizations.

The general strike

US Foreign Policy stripped bare. Colombia's aggression collapses with the departure of Uribe.

US Foreign Policy stripped to the essentials. Colombia's aggressive foreign policy collapses with the departure of Uribe.

By Francisco Dominguez
Secretary Venezuela Solidarity Campaign

The already bad relations between Venezuela and Colombia took a turn for the worse after the accusations made by the outgoing Uribe government's OAS representative, Luis Hoyos, who charged the Venezuelan government with harbouring Colombian guerrillas (1,500) and allowing guerrilla camps (85) inside its territory. The "evidence" - which has been pretty discredited - for this batch of accusations -as with previous ones- also came from the eight 'magical laptops' seized by Colombian military forces in an illegal military attack in March 1, 2009.

Radical Film Premiered in Nimbin!

Radical Film Premiered in Nimbin!

A surprisingly involved and interested two dozen Nimbinese turned up to the Australian premiere of  “We are not Afraid”  (‘Quien Dijo Miedo’)  - documentary video by independent film maker Katia Lara and producer Carlos del Valle, pulled out of the media blockade against Honduras.

The independent Venezuelan and other film crews were evicted by the coup regime, leaving only CNN-sanitised news that tried to convey the impression that ‘everything is normal’ (except for a few troublemakers, of course).

Those ‘not afraid’ to stay away from this seminal documentary on a cold Nimbinese winter evening did not regret the experience. The video will be shown in all the major cities of Australia over the next month. And perhaps on SBS national TV.  Fingers crossed. …

URGENT APPEAL FOR HONDURAS

URGENT APPEAL FOR HONDURAS

To the brotherhood of all the people of the world, to their social and political organizations sharing the ideal of a world free of injustices and inequities that mutilate the dreams of our societies, we ask you all to join the GREAT CAMPAIGN FOR THE PEOPLE OF HONDURAS.

On the 30^th of July the General Assembly of the Organisation of American States will call a special meeting to deal with the “case of Honduras”. We know that the Department of State of the United States of America lobbied to pressure many countries to vote in favour of the reincorporation of HONDURAS without taking account of the fact that our people are confronting the conditions of the most brutal repression and human rights violations.

Is there a smoking gun? - Possible US complicity in Honduras coup

Honduran suspicions of US complicity in the coup (part one)

(reposted from http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/)

Adrienne Pine on quotha.com provides links to new articles on the website of the Frente de Resistencia, along with audio links and emails circulating that relate to suspicions of US foreknowledge about the coup d'etat of June 28, 2009.

This is the kind of discussion that US commentators routinely reject out of hand as too fantastic to be given any attention.

But in my experience, the Hondurans who are taking these questions seriously are not impressionable: they include a wide range of highly educated people who find it hard to credit that the US was taken entirely by surprise and had no knowledge of the planned coup in time to intervene. This leads to the conclusion that the US did know, and chose to look the other way or even actively endorse the coup.

DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HONDURAS COUP NOW IN AUSTRALIA

Wed, 21 July 2010 FILM SCREENING WE ARE NOT AFRAID!  Now in Australia !  FILM SCREENING WE ARE NOT AFRAID! A DOCUMENTARY OF THE HONDURAS COUP     In the first months of the brutal coup in Honduras on June 28 last year over two million Hondurans came out on the streets in protest, largely ignored by the mainstream media. Katia Lara and Carlos del Valle grabbed their cameras and started shooting. Soldiers were firing live rounds into the crowds on the Tegucigalpa streets. A year later Katia Lara (working in exile) has released a devastating documentary. The first Australian showing (with English subtitles) will be here in Nimbin at Djanbung Gardens on Friday 23rd of July. Warming soup and hot drinks available from 6 pm for a 7 pm screening.     (Admission will be by donation to cover costs and to send donations to the Resistance Front in Honduras)National Itinerary below:

'Smoking Gun' found indicating US complicity in Honduras coup?

Honduran suspicions of US complicity in the coup (part two)

Hitherto, most of the evidence of US complicity in the coup has been 'circumstantial'  - the presence of certain individuals in Honduras in the week leading up to the coup, little 'slips' by the ambassador ... but apparently there are some documents in existence somewhere, which may soon come to light.

(reprinted from Honduras Culture and Politics blog site)

The second story posted today stemming from the interview with Roland Valenzuela, now circulating by email and on the internet, cites the mechanism by which Valenzuela said he gained access to papers from the planning of the coup:

The coup d'Etat was planned by Honduran businessmen in an Arab emirate

The assassinated ex minister, Roland Valenzuela, for the ousted president Manuel Zelaya, denounced, on "San Pedro Sula by Night", that the coup d'Etat in Honduras was planned by a group of six Honduran businessmen, who coincided in attending a fair in Dubai, one of the seven Arab emirates.

First Sovereign and Popular Assembly of FNRP

The Resistance Reaches Agreement During its First Sovereign and Popular Assembly After Intensive Debate and Democratic Consensus

SÁBADO 17 DE JULIO DE 2010 21:13 RED MORAZÁNICA DE INFORMACIÓN

Tegucigalpa, 11 July 2010, The National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP), after a long and honest democratic discussion in Tocoa Colon, with the 56 national delegates, in an organizational First Assembly, elected a provisional coordinating body, which will act until December 2010.

As well as naming the president in exile, Manuel Zelaya as President of the Executive Committee, the agreements include the decision “not to participate further in elections, ‘Honduras style’, that strengthen the two party system and contribute to the enrichment of the same elite that was the agency of the coup.

COPRUM (Teachers’ Union Professional Society) assessed the event as “full of the natural contradictions that would be normal for human beings who have lived most of their lives in silence and voiceless”.

Honduras: Despite torture, the truth will out

Sunday, July 18, 2010

By Ida Garberi

Since last year’s military coup in Honduras, an ongoing mass movement, with deep roots throughout the county, has erupted to fight for democracy and social justice. Photo: Upsidedownworld.org

The people of Honduras are continuing their struggle for democracy more than one year after the June 28 military coup that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya.

The dictatorship tried to legitimise itself with fraudulent elections that brought President Profiro Lobo Sosa to power. The United States government, which was complicit in the coup, recognised the results despite almost no other government doing so. The US has since fully restored military assistance.

An ongoing mass movement with deep roots throughout the county has erupted to fight for democracy and social justice. Organised by the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), the movement’s key demands are for the restoration of democracy, justice for the victims of the coup and for an elected constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution.