Honduran Resistance Movement Shows Signs of Progress

[Judi Lynn]

Honduran Resistance Movement Shows Signs of Progress
Thursday 21 October 2010

by: Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis

On October 21, the democratic resistance in Honduras will celebrate Artists in Resistance Day. This event contrasts directly with the day's official recognition of Honduras Armed Forces day. The resistance, which is working for a truly democratic Honduras, renamed the day and created an alternative celebration because of a brutal police attack last month on musicians and others that left one dead and scores injured.

On September 15, 2010, a nonviolent march and musical concert in Honduras was attacked by police and security forces. Incredibly, the police involved in the attack made it a point to destroy the musicians' instruments.

The musicians who were attacked called for today to be renamed Artists in Resistance Day. To mark the occasion, the collective Artists in Resistance and the National Front of Youth in Resistance (FNJR by its Spanish acronym) organized concerts for the night of October 21 in San Pedro Sula and in Tegucigalpa.

These groups reflect just a small sliver of the National Front of Popular Resistance in Honduras (FNRP by its Spanish acronym), one of the most mobilized social movements currently taking shape in our hemisphere. The FNRP represents social movements, organizations, and individuals from nearly every sector of Honduran society. They are organizing to stand up to one of Latin America's foremost human rights crises: the 2009 coup in Honduras and the intimidation, assaults, silencing and killings of those who have resisted the subsequent regimes that took power. The hope is that the evening's concerts will underscore the resistance to the crisis in Honduras and mobilize more international solidarity with the FNRP.

More:
http://www.truth-out.org/honduran-resistance-movement-shows-signs-progress64428

[Peace Patriot]

1. Excellent recap of the whole Honduran situation to the present.

This stands out...

"The surge in violence against union leaders, community organizers, journalists and activists has in fact come only after the coup, and it is undeniable that the leaders and members of the resistance are being targeted. According to the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), there have been 83 murders of members of the FNRP, countless injuries from assaults, and a steady stream of exiled individuals who have left the country after being raped or otherwise tortured, or after receiving death threats as a result of being part of - or being perceived as part of - the resistance; some of the people in exile have experienced both torture and death threats."

It is disgraceful that the U.S. government is supporting this illegitimate regime and seems oblivious to the carnage against union leaders, community organizers, journalists and anti-coup activists.