Honduran Resistance calls for Observers for Primaries & Support to Stop “Model Cities”

Sign a Petition to Stop the Neoliberal Model Cities Project from Moving Forward in Honduras

 

Defend the Sovereignty of Honduras and the Culture and Territory of the Garifuna People!

Click here to sign a petition asking the Supreme Court of Honduras to declare the Special Development Regions (RED) Law Unconstitutional.

In 2010, the government that emerged out of the June 2009 coup began to promote concessions of national territory for the creation of a quasi-independent state, with its own judicial, administrative and security systems. US economist Paul Romer promoted the concept of Model Cities, intervening in the National Congress for the quick approval of a Special Development Regions (RED) law. Government authorities have indicated that the first RED will be located between the Bay of Trujillo and the Sico river – an area with 24 Garifuna communities that are considered to be a cultural sanctuary. The law is being challenged in the Honduran Supreme Court and your signature will help move that legal challenge forward.

Click here for coverage of the law by PRI´s The World>>

 

Invitation to jointhe Honduras Human Rights Primary Elections Accompaniment Delegation – November 16-19, 2012

Sponsored by the Honduras Solidarity Network

 

LIBRE, the party of the National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP), is holding primary elections for candidates for President and the National Assembly on November 18, 2012. The FNRP is the organization uniting labor, teachers, students, campesinos, Afro-Honduran, and indigenous groups, LGBT, artists, and former Liberal party members in opposition to the June 28, 2009 coup and the illegitimate government of Porfirio Lobo.

 

The FNRP created LIBRE to attempt to return democracy through the ballot box in national elections to be held in November 2013. Two LIBRE pre-candidates have already been assassinated.  The FNRP has asked for international human rights accompaniment on its primary voting day of November 18, 2012 to help achieve a peaceful voting day and to document human rights abuses if they occur.

 

The Honduras Solidarity Network is offering two options for human rights accompaniment delegates for the LIBRE primary elections:

 

1.    A 10 day delegation Nov 12-21 — $850

 

2.    A 4 day delegation Nov. 16-19 — $300

 

Both delegations include transportation to and from the airport and within Honduras, three meals a day, double occupancy hotel, meetings, and translation. Both delegations will include spending Nov. 18 at polling places in small teams. (If you don’t speak Spanish, you will be teamed with those who do.) The longer delegation will include many more meetings with groups that are part of the FNRP and a trip into the countryside to meet with campesino groups struggling to recover land stolen from them by large landowners.

 

For more info and to sign up for the delegation email afgj@afgj.org or sistercities@gmail.com.

 

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