Demo Outside BBC Merseyside

Solidarity Newsletter: 25 June 2010

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Honduras Fundraiser - Liverpool on 25th June

Venue: Liverpool Social Centre (aka Next to Nowhere), 96 Bold Street
Date / Time: from 7pm onwards on 25th June 2010
*****On the 25th June, we're holding another fundraiser for Radio Faluma Bimetu in Honduras, to support the peaceful resistance of the military coup and associated human rights abuses. The coup began on June 28th last year, so we'd like to mark a year of resistance and show the people of Honduras that they're still not alone in their fight.
I hope that lots of you can make it!
The benefit part of the night, from 7pm onwards will be £10 a ticket, It'll be a three course meal, with a veganised traditional Honduran Menu of Bahai Blackbean soup, Baleadas (Honduran Burritos) served with rice and mango salsa, and a banana cake dessert.
Then at the free part of the night from 9pm onwards, there'll be Honduran music, a talk about what, more specifically, we're raising money for and an update of the latest information on the situation in Honduras. With Ponche de Pina !, a hot Honduran Punch on sale for £1 a cup (I Can never find the "Nyuh" accent on an English keyboard!!)
Through the night, we'll have a raffle, with 5 tickets for £1 and some pretty cool prizes!
So there's a lot that you shouldn't miss!
For tickets to the Honduran meal, you can either Email (toowipic@rocketmail.com), or pop into News from Nowhere, where they've kindly agreed to sell them for us!
So... I'll see you there! *****

Solidarity Newsletter - 2nd June 2010

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Interview with LGTB Activist (Spanish version)

    Gabcast! Interviews from Honduras #5 - Interview with LGTB Activist (Spanish version)

Spanish version of Interview with LGTB activist


       

Interview with LGTB Activist (English version)

    Gabcast! Interviews from Honduras #4 - Interview with LGTB Activist

English version of Interview with LGTB activist


       

Environmental and Political Activists Murdered

Adalberto Figueroa was murdered on Saturday 8th May at about 8:30am. He was getting ready to collect firewood in the company of his 11-year-old son and his nephew, barely a kilometre from his house, but he was ambushed by people wearing ski masks. They fired several shots which killed him immediately. 

Adalberto was an unquestionable leader inside and outside his community, who always had an extraordinary sense of solidarity and was utterly committed to social causes. He was a directive member of our organisation; initially he was our spokesperson. He was committed to the environmental struggle and participated in most activities organised by the Environmentalist Movement of Olancho (MAO). 

Days before his murder, he had put his demand that logging be stopped in this area to the National Institute of Conservation and Forestry Development (Instituto Nacional de Conservación y Desarrollo Forestal, ICF). In addition, he organised an open council in which resolved to take steps towards declaring the area a protected forest area.  

A few days later on Thursday 13th May two young activists, Gilberto Alexander Núñez Ochoa (27) and Jose Andres Oviedo (26) were shot dead inside a home, in Colonia Cruz Roja at kilometer 11, on the main road that leads south.

Since the coup d'état on June 28 , Gilberto Alexander Núñez Ochoa (27) joined the mobilizations of the National Front of Popular Resistance and was part of the Security and Discipline Committee.

On several occasions, Núñez Ochoa along with members of the committee of safety and discipline, identified infiltrators in the demonstrations whose goal was to provoke the police commandos by attacking private and public facilities and establish chaos to hold accountable for vandalism the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP) besides creating profiles of the protesters.

Reports provided to defensoresenlinea.com, state that Gilberto Alexander Núñez Ochoa participated in the recent demonstration that the teachers' organizations held last Wednesday at the base of the National Congress, which demanded respect for the Status of Teachers and the reinstatement of 10 departmental directors unfairly dismissed by the current regime.

Núñez Ochoa formed part of the protest along with hundreds of people from the FNRP in solidarity with teachers' unions, but at the end of the demonstration in the National Congress at about 11:30 am, he decided to stop following the mobilization that led to the Supreme Court (CSJ).

In the afternoon, he along with his friend, José Andrés Oviedo, went in a taxi to the Cruz Roja neighborhood, where at about 5:30 pm they were killed by two men carrying guns of unknown caliber and ski masks, according to witnesses who saw the offenders flee.

At around 6:30 pm on Wednesday afternoon, Núñez Ochoa was found lying in the living room where he lived, result of various impacts on the head and face and the body of his friend (Oviedo) lay lifeless on a bed.

Last November, Gilberto Alexander Núñez Ochoa had testified before the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh) since he was being a victim of stalking, threats and harassment by criminal investigation officers.