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URGENT ACTION: Violent Eviction Ongoing in Cortés (from Karen Spring)<http://quotha.net/node/2303>Tue, 06/12/2012 - 10:45 AP This morning approximately 300-400 military, police and private security guards violently evicted 1,500 families in San Manuel, Cortes. The security forces destroyed the community's food supply including 70 manzanas of corn and their houses. I just spoke with a very panicked campesino leader roughly 30 minutes ago and he said that many are still hidden as the security forces are still on site. - AP's blog <http://quotha.net/blog/1> URGENT ACTION: Violent Eviction Ongoing in Cortés (from Karen Spring) Tue, 06/12/2012 - 10:45 AP This morning approximately 300-400 military, police and private security guards violently evicted 1,500 families in San Manuel, Cortes. The security forces destroyed the community's food supply including 70 manzanas of corn and their houses. I just spoke with a very panicked campesino leader roughly 30 minutes ago and he said that many are still hidden as the security forces are still on site. There are detained campesin@s including elderly people and there are people that are injured but no one can seem to confirm how many. It is unclear how many have been detained but from what I have been able to gather, they believe they were taken to the Metropolitana station in San Pedro Sula. Please call the police station and ask how many are detained, what are the charges, etc. I have been unable to get through as the line is busy but given the urgency of the situation, I thought I would send out the alert. Metropolitana Police Station in SPS: 2552-3171 Police Operator (Regional but located in SPS): 2556-5188 At least 21 campesinos and campesinas captured in a new eviction of the Campesino Movement of San Manuel Cortes MOCSAM Tue, 06/12/2012 - 20:44 AP English translation of the bulletin from Los Necios by Vicki Cervantes, with an updated report from Via Campesina on the eviction in San Manuel this morning: At least 21 campesinos and campesinas captured in a new eviction of the Campesino Movement of San Manuel Cortes MOCSAM June 12, 2012 at 6:30 a.m. a powerful contingent of police and military brutally evicted the Campesino Movement of San Manuel Cortes (MOCSAM) located about 250 kilometers from the captial in northern Honduras, the campesino group entered the land recuperation process last April 17 and to date have been displaced on three occasions. As a result of the brutal eviction carried out this June 12 the detention of at least 21 people is reported, 18 women. All were immediately transferred to the police station Ballena located in San Pedro Sula in the north of the country. Since last April 17, the campesino group made up of 1500 families has been in struggle for the lands, gathered in a camp located in the same lands which was destroyed today in a brutal eviction; some 100 manzanas of cultivated corn was also destroyed. It is worth noting that the judge, Jose Antonio Barahona, some days before had issued arrest warrants for 7 campesino leaders of the group and yesterday over a period of two hours issued an order for the group to evicted today early in the morning, without giving the defense representing the campesinos any chance to use its legal resources to challenge and avoid this barbarity. Below are some of the names of the men and women detained today by the police and military in the eviction of the campesino group MOCSAM: Cintia Medina Palma, Besly Jazmín Munguía Amaya, Brígida Cruz, Gisela Perdomo Pineda, Elena Borjas, Marisela Espinoza Matute, Marcos Oralia Díaz, Eda Fermili pacheco, Ángela Orellana, maría Reyes Vargas, Arely Romero, Macaria Vásquez García, Alma Nelly Pineda, Maria Gómez Sandoval, Victoria Alejandra Sagastume (de 15 años) y Gonzalo Leiva, José Luis Déras, Pablo Leiva. >From Communications La Via Campesina Honduras ------------------------------ Get Your Member of Congress to Sign Letter About LGBT Killings in Honduras<http://quotha.net/node/2302>Tue, 06/12/2012 - 08:50 AP Get Your Member of Congress to Sign Letter About LGBT Killings in Honduras<http://rightsaction.org/action-content/get-your-member-congress-sign-letter-about-lgbt-killings-honduras> Dear friends in the U.S., you have until Wednesday, June 20, to get your member of congress to sign on! Please write your own message, and send it - with a copy of this information, below, to your own Member of Congress, urging them to sign on this "Dear Colleague" letter. - AP's blog <http://quotha.net/blog/1> - - Read more <http://quotha.net/node/2302> Tyler Shipley: Soccer, Imperialism, and Resistance in Honduras<http://quotha.net/node/2301>Mon, 06/11/2012 - 07:38 AP Click title for original on the new Left Hook Journal: Posted on June 7, 2012 Soccer, Imperialism, and Resistance in Honduras<http://lefthookjournal.wordpress.com/> Tyler Shipley Never let them tell you its just a game. Much is on the line, as the Canadian and Honduran national soccer teams prepare for their World Cup Qualifying match on June 12 in Toronto, but the real stories that animate this match are taking place a long way from BMO Field. Just ask Honduras most famed footballer once a local star with Toronto FC the aptly named Amado Guevara. - AP's blog <http://quotha.net/blog/1> - - Read more <http://quotha.net/node/2301> Emma Feltes: Laboratory, Honduras <http://quotha.net/node/2300>Mon, 06/11/2012 - 07:24 AP Click title for original piece in The Dominion: June 8, 2012 Laboratory, Honduras <http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4469> Dueling truth commissions, ongoing repression, and Canadas role in the new Honduras by Emma Feltes TORONTOJust over one year ago, renowned Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda was brutally assaulted and illegally detained by police. I have a scar on my stomach from a burn caused by a tear gas canister fired at me at point blank, said Miranda, in an interview with The Dominion. It was a peaceful roadblock in Triunfo de la Cruza Garífuna community on the north coast of Honduraswhen Miranda was hit with the canister, beaten, assailed with racial slurs and jailed without explanation. - AP's blog <http://quotha.net/blog/1> - - Read more <http://quotha.net/node/2300> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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