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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=2><u>2 important events
Thursday</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=3>-See below for
Dr. Luther Castillo in SF<br><br>
</u></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#FF0000">
Honduras/Haiti
Vigil</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">:
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=3 color="#FF0000">Thurs.
Oct. 29 - 4:30-5:30 <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#0000FF">Oakland
Federal Building -
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=3 color="#0000FF">1301
Clay St (12th St. BART)<br><br>
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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5>Hondurans and Haitians
are still in the streets protesting political kidnappings and
coups.</font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><h1><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>** Haitian President
Aristide</i> and Honduran President Zelaya</i> - both kidnapped from
their homes in the middle of the night and flown into exile in military
coups. US involvement in both abductions is clear. This is
intolerable.</b></font><font face="Verdana" size=4> <br><br>
<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>** Aristide was abducted
by US Special Forces in 2004 and flown to Africa on a US military
plane. He is still in exile in Africa.<br><br>
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** Zelaya was seized in his pajamas -- by troops under the command of a
general trained at the US School of the Americas -- and flown to the US
military base at Soto Cano, then to Costa Rica. <br><br>
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** It has been over 2 years since the kidnapping and disappearance of
Haitian human rights leader Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine</i>. Yet the
authorities have sat on their
hands.</b></font></h1><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4>President
Aristide, a liberation theology priest with a 91.8% mandate (2000
election), was removed because he fought to eliminate poverty. His
policies angered the Haitian elite and the US which profit from
sweatshops, privatisation and the import of [US] rice which has destroyed
the local agriculture and contributed to starvation. Like Zelaya in
Honduras and Chávez in Venezuela (who also faced a coup in 2002),
Aristide increased the minimum wage, and invested in food, health and
education. <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Narrow, Helvetica" size=5><b>Return Zelaya to
the Presidency! <br><br>
Return Aristide to Haiti! <br><br>
Return Lovinsky!<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Narrow, Helvetica" size=3>Sponsored by
Global Women's Strike, Haiti Action Committee and Women of Color in the
Global Women's Strike. Endorsed by Bay Area Latin America Solidarity
Coalition. <br><br>
<a href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net/">www.haitisolidarity.net</a>
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<a href="http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/" eudora="autourl">
www.globalwomenstrike.net<br><br>
</a></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2> <br><br>
</font><pre><font face="Georgia" size=5 color="#FF0000">Thurs. Oct. 29,
7-10pm
</font>Presentation about the Military Coup in Honduras
<font face="Georgia" size=5 color="#FF0000">with Dr. Luther Castillo
</font><font face="Georgia" size=5 color="#0000FF">Centro del Pueblo, 474
Valencia St., at 16th St., SF
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<font face="Georgia" size=3>Dr. Luther Castillo is a young Garifuna
doctor and community organizer who is the
founder and director of the hospital that is bears the name "For the
Health of Our
People" (Luaga Hatuadi Waduheno in the Garifuna language). On
October 7th at 6am
three army patrols broke down the doors and stormed the Garifuna
hospital.
The hospital and clinic is dedicated to providing the most important
health services
to the indigenous communities isolated on the Atlantic Coast. After
graduating from
the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba in 2005, Dr. Castillo
returned to the
coast of Honduras and led the construction of the first "Garifuna
hospital" which
now serves 20,000 people in the area. The hospital opened in December
2007 and Dr.
Castillo was named "Honduran Doctor of the Year" for 2007 by
the International
Rotary Clubs of Tegucigalpa.
Since the military coup on June 28, 2009, Dr. Castillo
and the hospital have been subject to many threats of closure and other
attacks by
the military.
The event is a fundraiser for the National Resistance Front against the
military
coup in Honduras.
</font>Sponsored by Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition, of which
the ANSWER
Coalition is a member. Call 415-821-6545 or visit
<a href="http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=sPEWoyUvrgcfaVlLcY9NRw">
http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=sPEWoyUvrgcfaVlLcY9NRw</a>.. for more
info.
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