We, the popular and social movements of Latin America and Honduras in particular, within the framework of the Latin America and the Caribbean, a Region of Peace: Foreign Military Bases Out campaign, call for an International Meeting Against Militarization in La Esperanza and Comayagua, Honduras on June 26th and 27th, 2011, closing on June 28th—the day on which two years will have passed since the Coup d’État carried out in Honduras that was perpetrated by the U.S. empire, military personnel and the oligarchy—with participation in the national event kicking off the self-convening of the Honduran people to the original constituent assembly that is truly representative and which has the goal of refounding the nation.
The objective of the Meeting will be to analyze the hemispheric and national context, facing the aggressiveness of the project of domination, with a particular focus on the hegemonic strategy of militarization and interventionism and the brutal repression against the Honduran people, to bring us to define a plan of action and possible strategies for counteracting it. We will be carrying out debates, exchanges of information and collaborative work to arrive at agreements and common lines of struggle.
With enthusiasm, hope and conviction we call upon you to work to end militarization in all its forms:
- Demand the closure of foreign military bases;
- Demand a stop to the criminalization of social struggles and the systematic and grave violations of human rights;
- Demand the trial and punishment for those responsible for these actions who are part of the golpista structures that must be dismantled;
- Dismantle the culture of militarization as a form of patriarchal and neoliberal domination in all areas of daily life of all people.
The international actions of the Continental Conference of Solidarity with Honduras will be carried out in front of Honduran embassies and consulates to organize debates, carry out visits and meetings with authorities, etc., to reaffirm their condemnation of a military coup in the continent. They will denounce the fact that the U.S. military bases supported the coup and have increased their presence in the country. They will denounce the persecution and murders of activists from social and popular movements and of the Honduran people in general by groups supporting the de facto regime. They will demand that debts incurred through the coup [por el golpismo] not be recognized.
Out, out foreign troops!
Yankee [gringo] trash, out of Honduras!
Yankee [gringo] trash, out of Honduras!
Organized by:
Latin America and the Caribbean, a Region of Peace: Foreign Military Bases Out
COPINH, OFRANEH, Artists in Resistance, MUCA, Autonomous Insurrection, ERIC, COFADEH.
Latin America and the Caribbean, a Region of Peace: Foreign Military Bases Out
COPINH, OFRANEH, Artists in Resistance, MUCA, Autonomous Insurrection, ERIC, COFADEH.
Translation by Adrienne Pine