Resistance in Honduras Solidarity Rally Friday

Friday August 28, 2009 Rally in Solidarity with the People of Honduras

National Days of Action in Solidarity with the Resistance in Honduras and Against the Coup D’état

TUCSON AZ PHOENIX AZ Friday August 28th 4:00pm Friday August 28th 7:30pm Federal Building "Release the Fear" Statue 300 W Congress (downtown Tucson) Central Ave & Roosevelt

We demand: Stop the killings & repression of the Honduran people No to human rights violations in Honduras Support the non-violent resistance of the Honduran People and the National Front for Resistance Against the Coup d’état Immediate return of Constitutional law and restore Constitutional President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales No to an electoral process as product of the de facto regime No to the militarization of Honduras, or U.S. military bases in Honduras

For two months the people of Honduras have been in the streets to protest the military coup that ousted their elected president Manuel Zelaya. They are being shot down, arrested and tortured, but the protests continue. The international community, with the exception of Israel, has condemned the coup. Latin American countries recalled their ambassadors, the ALBA countries, the SICA, the Rio Group, the OAS and the UN have all imposed sanctions on the illegal government. The United States government’s refusal to recall its ambassador and cut ALL TIES and AID and follow-through with the severe sanctions agreed upon in the OAS has emboldened the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti. This illegal government has intensified its repressive actions by heavily armed police and army against a defenseless, unarmed poor population who are vehemently opposing this criminal coup. The U.S. is Honduras' major trading partner and has used that country as its military outpost against the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran Revolutions in the 80's. It is in Honduras where the criminal "Contras" operated, trained by the infamous School of the Americas. The Honduran military is intimately linked to the Pentagon from which receives every kind of material aid and weapons, assistance in training, surveillance and military actions. The U.S. has also called for more military aid and U.S. troops to be sent to Colombia to build up a vicious, death squad regime in that South American country and to threaten the people and governments of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador who are trying to break free from poverty and underdevelopment. We must expose the criminal complicit silence of the U.S. media on the repression occurring in Honduras and its biased reporting favoring the illegal coup.