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Honduras resistance to coup Radio Liberada + TUCA condemns Military
Listen to Radio Liberada, from somewhere in Honduras, after the military coup Listen to the transmission of Radio Liberada from somewhere in Honduras:
Before and after the military coup in Honduras, Radio Liberada has been transmitting a live chronicle of what is happening in Honduras, its opposition, and the mobilizations by popular and indigenous organizations against the coup and for the undertaking of a new constitutional assembly. The radio is writing a new page in the free media movement in Central America. We are asking for free media collectives in the country and throughout the world to retransmit or mirror this transmission.
Coverage in the Radio es lo de menos: http:/
Coverage from the Independent Media Center in Honduras: http:/
Minute by minute by Kaos en la Red: http:/
Coverage and transmission by the Association of Radios and Participatory Programs of El Salvador (ARPAS): http:/
We know that they are shutting down free media in Honduras. This morning Radio Progreso , one of the oldest community radio stations of the continent has been closed by the military. Other community radio stations have decided to hide their equipment.
Electricity and telephone and internet communications have been interrupted by the coup members with the objective of blocking communications and maintaining an information siege. And we are worried about the situation that friends from the network of community radio stations in the village of Lenca and Garifuna might find themselves in, along with the free media: COMUN , Revistazo, COFADEH and the rest of the collectives from the movement of independent and community media in Honduras.
From here our solidarity with the Honduran people in struggle and with the Honduran free media. We will break the information seige! Information is also mobilization! Free Media Center from Mexico City Take the media, be the media, make media!
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The TUCA condemns the coup in Honduras and urges the immediate return to power of the elected president Manuel Zelaya The Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) vigorously condemns the coup d'état in Honduras, carried out by militaries forces on the 28th of June that had destitute from power and subsequently expelled from the country the elected president Manuel Zelaya.
As a continental trade union organization, committed to democratic values, human rights, peace and the self-determination of the people, we demand president Zelaya immediate restitution to power as the supreme executive authority of the country, as well as the full respect to the popular will in the Republic of Honduras.
We have no doubt in reaffirming that the coup is the result of traditional methods used by hegemonic groups to impose their will upon the legitimate interests of the people. This violent action intends to prevent the possibility that, through popular democratic participation, necessary changes may be conducted to overcome the inequality and injustices of a system that for decades has favored oligarchic interests.
The coup perpetrated by the military is the last chapter on the confrontation between political forces in the country, triggered by president Zelaya´s decision to carry out a popular non-binding referendum to preside over the eventuality of a constitutional process that would allow the renewal of political structures in Honduras. The referendum should have been put into effect on the 29th of June and had been ruled illegal by the legislative and judicial powers that have impelled the military intervention to halt its realization.
The action was articulated by the traditional parties, the economic groups and the mass media that urged the intervention of the military forces based on a supposed protection of institutional processes. This has led to a dangerous rupture of the democratic state. We call the international community and in particular the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations (UN) to act immediately over the institutional crisis in Honduras.
The TUCA also urges all governments in the Americas to isolate this attempt against democracy and popular will and asks for the activation of all mechanisms at their reach to avoid that repression and violence may be utilized by the military to contain social unrest. Likewise, we express our solidarity to the Honduran people, the trade union and social movements in their struggle for the reestablishment of democracy.
Our affiliated organizations in the country, CGT, CUT and CTH have expressed their commitment to the referendum and have supported the democratically elected president. The trade union leaders in Honduras have denounced that since the military coup, a supposed “black list” of social and political leaders targeted for arrests has been produced due to their commitment to the referendum. This could trigger a very serious repression situation with unpredictable consequences.
We request the international trade union movement and in particular the organizations affiliated to the TUCA across the continent to be ready in expressing the utmost solidarity with our trade union brother and sisters in Honduras. The trade unions are asked to send condemning notes against this anti-democratic state of affairs and to put pressure over their own governments to undertake the necessary actions to reestablish democracy and peace in this fraternal Central American country.
Víctor Báez Mosqueira Secretary-General of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas oritinfo@sindicatomercosul.com.br
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