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DESCRIPTION:For Immediate Release: May 29, 2012\n\nContact: Adrienne Pine 
 202-652-5601\n\nOn May 29, at 7 pm at Cohousing Commons, 5th and T Streets 
 in Sacramento, Adrienne Pine, noted scholar and activist, will speak on the 
 current situation in Honduras since the coup in 2009.\n\nDr. Pine is an 
 Assistant Professor at American University in Washington, DC and travels 
 frequently to Honduras. She is the author of Working Hard, Drinking Hard: 
 Violence and Survival in Honduras, and will sign copies of her book at her 
 public lecture on Tuesday night at the Southside Park Cohousing Common 
 Room. Admission to the event is free.\n\nDr. Pine will also give a lecture 
 at noon on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 in Room 1277, Social Science and 
 Humanities Building, UC Davis, on the topic “The Obama Administration and 
 Honduras."\n\nAdmission to both events is free.\n\nDr. Pine has written 
 many articles and has given dozens of lectures and presentations about 
 Honduran society since she became involved with that country while working 
 on her doctorate in anthropology at UC Berkeley. She has been invited to 
 speak in the United States, Canada, Honduras, Argentina, Mexico, Egypt and 
 Brazil. A medical anthropologist, Dr. Pine has also done extensive research 
 and writing in the area of healthcare and labor relations.\n\nHer talk on 
 Tuesday evening in Sacramento will focus on Honduras, Iraq, and the Media. 
 Dr. Pine notes that post-coup Honduras has been repeatedly mentioned by 
 U.S. officials in recent months as the inheritor of the lessons and 
 resources of the Iraq war. Among the many worrisome implications 
 accompanying this assertion is the use of embedded journalism for stories 
 like the New York Times' front page article "Lessons of Iraq Help U.S. 
 Fight a Drug War in Honduras" (May 5).\n\nMeanwhile, Honduran reporters 
 carrying out unembedded investigative reporting work in one of the most 
 dangerous climates for journalism in the world, facing high rates of 
 targeted assassination and other forms of direct violence by the 
 U.S.-funded and trained Honduran military and militarized police. In her 
 talk Dr. Pine will discuss how U.S. policies in Honduras and Iraq have 
 mutually informed each other since the 1980s, and the perils of reporting 
 on them.\n\nSince the then-president, Manuel Zelaya, was removed from 
 office in June of 2009 by the Honduran military, Honduras has seen a 
 stunning increase in violence, including the death of 18 journalists and 
 numerous human rights activists, labor leaders, and community organizers. 
 At present Honduras is considered by the United Nations to be the most 
 violent country in the world, with 86.5 homicides annually per 100,000 
 population. More journalists been killed than in Honduras in recent years 
 than in any other country in the world except Mexico.\n\nIn addition to Dr. 
 Pine, Michael Ring, a local activist working with the US-El Salvador Sister 
 Cities organization, will speak about his work with the Honduras Solidarity 
 Network. Michael has been involved in solidarity with Central American 
 liberation and social justice movements since the 1980's.\n\nCurrently, 
 Michael helps coordinate the Honduras Solidarity Network's Congressional 
 Action Team which this Spring successfully organized Dear Colleague letters 
 signed by over 100 US Congresspeople and Senators calling for a change in 
 US policy to support human rights and democracy in Honduras. He served as 
 the national coordinator of US-El Salvador Sister Cities from 1995 to 
 2002.\n\nCHIMES, (California Honduras Institute for Medical and Educational 
 Support), a local Sacramento nonprofit which supports a hospital and other 
 healthcare projects in the Garifuna communities of Honduras, will also be 
 represented at the event on May 29. Information will also be available 
 concerning the Honduras Accompaniment Project, operated by the Friendship 
 Office of the Americas in Washington, D.C., which seeks to protect human 
 rights activists in Honduras by providing them with international 
 accompaniment.\n\nFor more information about the event at Cohousing Commons 
 on May 29, contact Carole Harper at ch1979@earthlink.net, or call 
 916-457-5018.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/29/18714312.php
SUMMARY:Adrienne Pine to speak about Honduras and the media
LOCATION:Southside Park Cohousing Common Room, 5th and T Streets, 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/29/18714312.php
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