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From: Helena Wong, GGJ [mailto:helena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 5:01 PM
To: Miriam Vieni
Subject: TAKE ACTION: Justice for Berta Cáceres
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Berta Cáceres with her mother, Austra Bertha Flores Lopez, together at their
home in La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras. | Photo: Goldman Environmental
Prize
The Honduran state criminalized my daughter using supposed institutionality
to level proceedings against her, because she played a role as a defender of
natural common goods and the rights of Indigenous and Black peoples of
Honduras.
-Austra Bertha Flores Lopez, mother of Berta Cáceres
Dear Miriam Vieni,
This month as we lift up the honor the mothers and caretakers in our lives,
join us standing with mother and community leader Austra Bertha Flores
Lopez, in her fight for justice for her daughter Berta Cáceres.
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5&qid=642639> Take Action: Demand Justice for Berta
Berta Cáceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through
Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, Austra Bertha Flores Lopez, was a
midwife and social activist, who took in and cared for refugees from El
Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for
disenfranchised people. Berta followed in her mothers footsteps and became
one of the leading organizers for indigenous land rights in Honduras. Over
20 years ago, she co-founded the National Council of Popular and Indigenous
Organizations of Honduras, or COPINH, a grassroots organization of workers,
women, Indigenous people and campesinos. Cáceres led the successful
campaign that defeated one of Central America's biggest hydropower projects,
the Agua Zarca cascade of four giant dams in the Gualcarque River basin.
On March 3, 2016, Berta Cáceres's life was taken from her and those who
loved her when armed gunmen stormed into her home and shot her.
Berta's mother and her three daughters are calling for an independent
investigation into her assassination. While the Honduran government is
beginning to feel the mounting pressure and began a series of arrests
yesterday, Bertas family is still being shut out of the investigation
process. Our support is needed now more than ever to keep the pressure on.
Our movements in the US have an important role to play in holding the US
accountable for ongoing support of the military regime that took power in
the 2009 coup that led to this wave of violent repression against popular
movements. The US State Department is still supporting the Honduran
government, which has impeded the investigation into Bertas murder.
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Join the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and the World March of Women, US
Chapter in calling on the State Department stop aid and training to the
Honduran military and support the familys call for the independent
investigators led by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
We honor Berta's life, her work as a mother, a feminist, an environmental
activist, a human rights defender, an Indigenous leader, and her fight for
everyone's right to be happy. We honor her mother and her daughters who are
vigilant in their demand for justice.
This Mother's Day, we stand with Austra Bertha Flores Lopez and all mothers
on the frontlines of the struggle for justice!
¡Berta Cáceres Vive! ¡La Lucha Sigue!
Helena Wong, National Organizer
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, World March of Women US Chapter
PS: In addition to circulating this petition and gathering pressure against
the US State Department, we will also be
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American Mother's Day, in NYC targeting the Honduran government. Corre la
voz!
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