[fsf60k] Fwd: Don't let the U.S. fund killing in Honduras

From: michael cipoletti <ikecip@xxxxxxx>
To: Maura Carpinello <mcarpinello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:15:00 -0500
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> From: "Sharon Hostetler, Witness for Peace" <hostetler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: March 10, 2010 10:17:45 AM EST
> To: ikecip@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Don't let the U.S. fund killing in Honduras
> Reply-To: hostetler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>               
> Dear Michael,
> 
> 
> Claudia Larissa Brizuela was brutally murdered on February 24
> The political assassinations in Honduras have not ended.  In the four weeks 
> since Porfirio Lobo took office, three members of the resistance movement 
> have been killed, and the staff of Honduran human right's organizations are 
> receiving death threats. 
> 
> Yet, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Friday that she is 
> restoring the U.S. aid to Honduras that had been frozen since the June 2009 
> coup removed the democratically-elected president from power.  We cannot let 
> this happen.
> 
> Please call the State Department today and ask them to immediately cancel all 
> U.S. aid to Honduras.  Tell the Obama administration we cannot support the 
> silencing of peaceful voices in Central America. Click here for a sample 
> script to make your call.
> 
> Hundreds of brave community leaders are standing up for their rights in 
> Honduras, despite a systematic campaign of intimidation, arrests, and 
> murders.  It is clear that the U.S.-promoted elections and attempts to 
> whitewash the coup have not ended the violence against them.
> 
> People of Honduras are calling on the international community to stand in 
> solidarity with them against the grave abuses that continue despite Pepe 
> Lobo's election. Honduran exile César Silva told us, "Do not believe that 
> [the crisis] is now over.  Do not believe that now that there is a new 
> government, our problems have ended.  No."  
> 
> Please let Hondurans know we hear their calls, and contact the State 
> Department now.
> 
> In Peace,
> 
> 
> Sharon Hostetler
> 
> P.S. Make sure the Obama administration knows we have not forgotten Honduras. 
> Please take two minutes to call the State Department today.
> 
> 
> 
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