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<div align="center"><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica" size=6><b>ACTION
ALERT<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>CALL-IN SOLIDARITY
WITH THE HONDURAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT<br><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><b>Leader Assassinated
Yesterday in Front of Her Two Children, <br><br>
Denounce U.S. Support for Repressive State Run by Pepe Lobo <br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Today, February 25,
2010 marks an historic date in the struggle for true democracy and the
respect for human rights in Honduras. Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands
of supporters of the National People’s Resistance Front (FNRP) will march
through the streets of Tegucigalpa to demand that the largely
unrecognized month-old government of Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo halt its
attacks on the peaceful Resistance movement. The FNRP has documented at
least <b><u>254</u></b> human rights violations, including murder,
kidnappings and rape, since Pepe Lobo took over for the de facto
government. <br><br>
Just yesterday, FNRP supporter Claudia Larisa Brizuela Rodriguez was
gunned down in her home in San Pedro Sula. Her two young children, ages 2
and 8, witnessed their mother’s murder. <br><br>
Claudia was the daughter of high-profile Resistance leader and Radio Uno
host, Pedro Brizuela. It is believed that Claudia’s cowardly
assassination is meant to intimidate not only the FNRP, but also the
independent media. Radio Uno hosts, including Pedro Brizuela, have
consistently denounced the abuses and corruption of the post-coup
governments, and therefore have become a consistent target of threats.
Yesterday those threats became violent action once again.<br><br>
Please join us in calling the State Department’s Human Rights desk in
order to demand that our government not continue to ignore systematic
human rights violations. The United States is one of only a handful of
governments that has officially recognized Pepe Lobo’s coup-stained
administration, which is not recognized by the UN, OAS, and the vast
majority of Latin America. The United States is dramatically impeding any
progress towards international human rights by attempting to force others
to legitimize the abusive government of Honduras.<br><br>
<b>Dial 202-647-4000 and ask for Human Rights Desk at the Bureau of
Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3 color="#000080">.
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Alternately, you can
ask to speak to the office of Maria Otero, Under Secretary of State for
Democracy and Global Affairs, who coordinates the work of the Bureau of
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor</b></font>.<br><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Sample script:<br><br>
Hi, my name is ____________ and I am calling because I am deeply
concerned about the human rights situation in Honduras. Just yesterday,
Claudia Larisa Brizuela, activist and daughter of prominent member of the
resistance movement and opposition media personality Pedro Brizuela, was
assassinated in her home in San Pedro Sula in front of her two young
children. In recent weeks, other resistance leaders have been attacked
and murdered, amounting to over 254 documented human rights violations
since Porfirio Lobo took power only a month ago. This represents the
continuance of an ongoing policy of state terrorism and aggression that
began after the July 28th <i>coup d’etat</i>.<br><br>
The U.S. has not supported democracy in Honduras through this crisis. I
understand that the U.S. split from a regionally unified position on the
Honduran coup in supporting a transition that did not require the return
of President Zelaya or hold any of the coup-perpetrators accountable for
their actions. The U.S. also split from the majority of Latin America by
recognizing the fraudulent November 29th elections that took place under
conditions of martial law. While the U.S. may never repair the damage
done by its anti-democratic actions around Honduras, I demand that steps
be made in the correct direction. I ask that the U.S. SOTRONGLY CONDEMN
the Lobo administration for continued human rights violations and call
for the protection of all human rights defenders and media workers in
Honduras, while cutting military aid to the country. I also urge the U.S.
to reject the Lobo administration's proposed Truth Commission, and push
for an independent truth process that would thoroughly investigate the
human rights violations and other crimes committed under the interim
government of Roberto Micheletti, as well as the current administration,
instead of simply whitewashing the coup in Honduras. NO BUSINESS AS
USUAL. Thank you.”<br><br>
This alert was written by allies in the Central American solidarity
movement. For more information about the crisis in Honduras, please
visit:<br><br>
<i>Comunicado </i></font>about the murder from the FNRP:
<a href="http://quotha.net/node/723"><font size=3 color="#000080">
http://quotha.net/node/723</a><br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>The Quixote Center:
<a href="http://quixote.org/">http://quixote.org/<br>
</a>School of the Americas Watch:
<a href="http://soaw.org/">http://soaw.org/<br>
</a>Honduras Resiste:
<a href="http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/">
http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/<br>
</a>National Resistance Front Against the Coup (<i>en español</i>):
<a href="http://contraelgolpedeestadohn.blogspot.com/">
http://contraelgolpedeestadohn.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>
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