National Day fo Action

2nd anniversary of the coup

in Honduras
Sunday
June 26
12 noon - 1pm

Ibero-American
Plaza
Chalmers St
Surry Hills
next to Devonshire St
entrance Central Station

Stop the coup in Honduras!

Celebrate return of deposed
President Manuel Zelaya
Speakers
tbc

Performers
Rima - Soul Beats
Jorge - Latin Percussion
Solidarity Choir

Support the National

Front of People’s
Resistance - FNRP
Organised by: Sydney Coalition for Honduras, PO Box A671, Sydney South NSW 1230
Australians for Democratic Honduras, CFMEU, Latin American Social Forum, NSW Teachers Fed, Search Foundation
latinamerica.emergency@gmail.com
 2nd anniversary of the coup in Honduras
We are organising a protest to Stop the Coup in Honduras 2 years on: Zelaya returns, at 12-1pm
on Sunday 26th June 2011 at Iberoamerican Plaza, next to Central Station (Chalmers St exit);
please invite individuals and organisations in your networks to be part of this.
As part of a network of people and organisations working to grow and link in with global
movements struggling for a better world, we call on you to join with us to help build an
international solidarity movement. Corporate and governmental powers continue to attempt to
normalise the attack by global neoliberal capitalism against our communities, living and working
conditions and welfare by the prevalence of privatisation, casualisation of labour and the plunder
of natural resources. Military intervention and state repression form part of the arsenal of those
advocating a neoliberal agenda. When these policies and practices go unchallenged this is a
defeat for humanity.
In Honduras, the illegal coup continues and the current repressive Lobo puppet regime obtained
power on 27 January 2011 through an illegitimate, illegal and repressive election. The illegal
coup in Honduras took place on 28 June 2009.
Today in Honduras , weekly political killings continue. Just in May 2011, local TV news reporter
Hector Medina was murdered by hit men for his courageous journalism work critical of
landholders and council corruption. Another journalist Luis Mendoza was also killed. Organised
farmers José Lemus and Henry Rony Diaz were assassinated, farmer Francisco Pascual was
disappeared and an unidentified farmer’s body was found as well. The regional secretary of the
National Farmers Association of Honduras Dennis Lara was also killed, as was Sixto Ramos,
Coordinator of Popular Organisations of Aguán. 19 year old musician of the Resistance Juan
Angel Sorto was also assassinated.
Through negotiation the deposed president Zelaya returned to physically join in the resistance on
28 May 2011, estimates of the multitudes who arrived to welcome him range from hundreds of
thousands to over a million (the population of Honduras is under 8 million). This is a time to
maximise struggle, solidarity and demands, a time when there is a lot that could be won, and a
lot that could be lost. A time to show that people around the world are looking and monitoring,
and not sleeping.
The repression of the Honduran people cannot be left unchallenged. Therefore, we extend an
invitation for you to stand with us in solidarity with the Honduran people in their demands for a
grassroots democracy and against neoliberalist military rule. To share ideas, provide support
and/or be part of the organising process, please contact 0410584890 or
latinamerica.emergency@gmail.com.
Sydney Coalition for Honduras
(Australians for Democratic Honduras, CFMEU, Latin American Social Forum, NSW Teachers Federation,
Search Foundation)

Copinh organisation: ´We will not rest until all the coup structures that are in power today are
dismantled. They are enjoying national and international impunity, against which we keep rising
our struggle because we are a dignified people that is not disposed to give up. We don´t forget,
forgive, or reconciliate.´ Copinh
Café Guancasco (popular band of Honduras resistance): ´Here they invent the laws to protect
their interests, they take away our land, and sell us their ideas´
For more information:
http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net
http://artacionunion.blogspot.com
http://therealnews.com - for recent videos on Honduras - Zelaya´s return, teachers, farmers, ..