Click title for original in Vos el Soberano:
NATIONAL MEETING TO FOUND A NEW HONDURAN STATE
“Installation of the first Popular Constituent Assembly”
(Translated for Rights Action by Rosalind Gill, RGill@glendon.yorku.ca)

“I am appealing to our youth, who are called to give life to this country that has fallen into anarchy. I want you to follow my example, to resolve not to die and leave our country in the disorder in which it unfortunately finds itself today." Francisco Morazán

BROTHERS AND SISTERS:
Honduras is calling us again, we are called to raise our voices and defend our most just, pure, ideas, in all their diversity, ideas that belong to all of us. We are called to take up the struggle, the struggles from before, the eternal struggles and those that will come in the future: for participatory direct, democracy, sovereignty, self-determination, justice, liberty and dignity.

We are once again invited to construct our utopias, think about who we are, come together and see ourselves as profoundly equal and diverse, as we try to make these dreams come true: the construction and exercise of popular power, water for everyone, respect for land and territory, the value of ancestral cultures, the wisdom of biodiversity, a common good, based on fundamental rights, the dignity of a full life for women, recognition of youth as a force of rebellion and of its contributions and proposals, the importance of a secular political military, the necessity of providing a happy childhood for our children.

Brothers and Sisters: The time has come. This is why we are all called upon to relaunch our hearts, our ideas, our struggles, our dreams.
You are cordially invited to debate, reflect, dream, put forth ideas, and fight for a new Honduran state. We will keep up our rebellion, rethink our proposals, share them and find ways to make them successful. We will go down a road of transformation that will allow us to put an end to forms of domination that plunder, exploit and oppress us.

WHEN: March 12 – 14
WHERE: La Esperanza, Honduras.

Here, we will engage in the enthusiastic mission to construct a People’s Assembly in which the ideas and dreams that have been waiting for centuries will come together. In the Assembly, we will debate how we will share in the future. Our voices will raise together and we will become one voice.

The people of Honduras will practice their Constituent People’s Power. The Assembly will therefore have to speak for the voice of the absent. We hope that their words will be brought in written form so they are not forgotten or silenced.

The people will meet in great solidarity on the road to La Esperanza but, as well, they should bring as much solidarity in their sack of dreams.

Bring anything you can: water, beans, blankets, corn, rice, and sugar to share these days; as our country is calling us.

At this meeting in la Esperanza, thugs and low-lifes, the unpatriotic, non-citizens, the corrupt or any form of golpistas are not welcome. And neither are opportunists, party members, those who go begging to the empire, murderers, filibusters, oligarchy supporters and swindlers, narco-politicians, drug traffickers, para-militaries, nor para-civilians linked to the government.

Please be informed that the above exclusions will be enforced at the entrance gate.

Those who want to establish a new Honduran state have a blind date with destiny. It is our sons and daughters who will see the fruit of this meeting of love for our unfinished homeland that is yet to be born.

I salute you, brothers and sisters of the people of Honduras.

FOR INFORMATION: COPINH (Council of Popular & Indigenous Organizations of Honduras), La Esperanza, [504] 783-0817, bertacopinh@gmail.com.