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DESCRIPTION:Honduran Indigenous Social Movement leaders being criminalized two months 
 before Honduras elections\n\nCOPINH is the Indigenous organization of the 
 indigenous Lenca people of Rio Blanco. Since April 1, they have blocked the 
 construction of an illegal hydroelectric dam in their territory after the 
 dam company destroyed their crops and threatened their lives.\n\nSince May 
 17, the U.S.-funded Honduran military has occupied the area to protect DESA 
 and the Chinese company SINOHYDRO's corporate interests and threatened the 
 Lenca population. U.S.-funded Honduran soldiers have killed, shot, slashed 
 with machetes, kidnapped and terrorized members of the 400-family Rio 
 Blanco community. Resistance leaders are being framed as criminal, violent 
 and armed usurpers of land.\n\nThe persecution of Berta Cáceres, Tomás 
 Gómez and Aureliano Molina is the latest escalation of an intense 
 criminalization campaign by the Honduran government and the multinational 
 DESA Corporation, aimed at destroying the Lenca people's resistance to the 
 pilling of their natural resources for corporate profit.\n\nDemands:\n\n1. 
 Retract the conviction of Berta, Tomás and Aureliano\n\n2. Stop the 
 eviction of the blockade in Rio Blanco\n\n3. Cease construction of the 
 illegal dam, Agua Zarca\n\n4. Respect ancestral lands and international 
 conventions, which protect indigenous people\n\n5. End the repression and 
 violence against Resistance leaders, especially the Rio Blanco community.   
   \n\nSponsor: Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/09/18744592.php
SUMMARY:Honduras protest
LOCATION:870 Market Street in front of Honduras consulate
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/09/18744592.php
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