The folks at Tortilla con Sal have shared with me this recording of Walter and others doing human rights, HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ resistance work, made July 30, 2009 in Las Manos. The photo below was taken the same day, and they posted it on their site last July 31.

Rights Action SPEAKERS - FALL 2010

CRACKS IN THE WALLS OF IMPUNITY & CORRUPTION IN GUATEMALA & HONDURAS, & WITH GLOBAL RESOURCE EXTRACTION COMPANIES

During the months of September-November, 2010, Grahame Russell & Annie Bird (Rights Action co-directors since 1995) are available for speaking engagements in eastern Canada and USA, showing slides and documentaries, and speaking about:

See below for sample letters & contact info (and then send some!)

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
By the Honduras Solidarity Network
Contact: Vicki Cervantes, vickicervantes@yahoo.com

A coalition of North American organizations today denounced the exercise of violent repression by Honduran military and police forces against members of a striking teacher's union at a university in Tegucigalpa.

REPRESSION IN HONDURAS CONTINUES, UNABATED
By Karen Spring, August 31, 2010 (spring.kj@gmail.com)

Last Thursday and Friday (Aug 26-27), police and military violently repressed public school teachers that have taken to the streets for almost 3 weeks to demand, amongst other things, that the Pepe Lobo regime return 4 billion lempiras (or some 200 million dollars) that were taken from National Institute of IMPREMA, an institution that manages teacher's pension funds, after the military-oligarchic coup against President Zelaya on June 28, 2009.

Click here to listen.

Money sent home by migrant workers provides a lifeline for millions of the world's poorest people. So the global economic crisis has had a dramatic effect on families in the developing world.

In Honduras, remittances have long been the main source of foreign currency. But now that money is drying up.

Click here to listen to Monday's English-language news update.

COMMUNIQUE N° 1
Sunday, August 29, 2010
General Strike Regional Committee
Translated by J. Atlee

Click photo to see complete report & photo series:

Honduras: Something's not right; we must act immediately

The general strike is basically a weapon of last resort of the people in order to have their demands be heard. But even being a very broad movement is not enough to ensure its success...
Ricardo Arturo Salgado (translation by Adrienne Pine)

"A few with courage," the movie's called. This shameless piece of poorly-acted propaganda, "based on a true story," is the combined story that Billy Joya and Oscar Álvarez want you and all of Honduras to believe about them. "Did you know that we're not delinquents, Moises?" says the evil criminal mastermind. "Then what are we?" asks his protegé. "Revolutionaries." In this work of bold fiction, the police (actually, probably 3-16, since Billy Joya did succeed in freeing some fabulously wealthy kidnap victims) are heroes uninterested in money, and anyone who opposes the system is a criminal—although of course this is true by definition when one defines dissent as a criminal act. It was mostly produced, as I understand it, following the coup, and there can be little doubt that it was made in consultation with "Showman" Alvarez and Billy Joya, who himself has a media production operation.