The People of Honduras are calling on us

Women protesting the coup

Photos of victims killed

Banner says: Police – your parents and your wife are our good neighbors, your children play with mine. And you, why do you beat me? This struggle is yours too.

Donate to Families of Detained & Disappeared who are sheltering those at risk, fighting for life and justice.

Following the military coup in Honduras last June, the repression escalated – reports of as many as 130 people murdered, hundreds arrested, beaten, burned with cigarettes and sodomized with batons, and women gang-raped. The violence by the military coup continued in the lead-up to and during last Sunday’s elections, elections which have been called a fraud by the Honduran people and have entrenched the coup government.

COFADEH, the Comite de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras (Committee of Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras,) is at the frontline fighting for the human rights of those arrested and sheltering those at risk.

Interviewed on KPFK, COFADEH’s founder Bertha Oliva told how their center was tear-gassed with 100 supporters inside, and how coup forces had raided barrios shooting unarmed people, including children. Even hospitals were searched and mothers had to fight the military to stop them taking their wounded children. To hear the interview:

http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/m3u.php?mp3fil=23445 (it takes a couple of minutes to download after pressing play).

Bertha Oliva founded COFADEH after her husband was kidnapped and disappeared during the military coup in Honduras in the early 1980’s. She says that the current military is even worse – violence used to be covert, now it’s out in the open.

But the movement in Honduras is determined to defeat the coup and reinstate its democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. They are also pressing for a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution; Costa Rican President Oscar Arias recently called the Honduran constitution the "worst in the entire world".

One concrete way to support our sisters and brothers in Honduras is to donate to COFADEH so they can continue their critical work. You can send a bank to bank transfer directly to COFADEH or send it to us marked Honduras.

INFORMATION FOR BANK TRANSFER
Corresponding Bank (yours)

Intermediary : CITIBANK NA
SWIFT: CITIUS33 ABA: 021000089

Beneficiary Bank: CITIBANK DE HONDURAS, S.A.
SWIFT: BACUHNTE
Account: 36243725

Name of final Beneficiary:
COFADEH, Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras
Account number: 754706

Your bank can make the transfer if you give them the above information. If you prefer to send your donation to LA Wages for Housework (fiscal sponsor in LA for GWS) mail to: WFH, PO Box 86681, LA, 90086 and we will forward to COFADEH

Call issued by Global Women’s Strike and Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike. la@crossroadswomen.net 323 276 9833

 For more information about the situation in Honduras and Haiti (which is still under military occupation since the US 2004 coup) visit our website www.globalwomenstrike.net