Honduras hosts anti-militarization summit

This is from the listserve of an organization named  May I Speak Freely www.mayispeakfreely.org/     It isfantastic that there is finally an organization focussing on issues in Honduras. Please check them out!  -Rick

The second Hemispheric
Encounter Against Militarization was held in Intibucá, Honduras from Oct. 3 to Oct. 6. The conference, with 800 delegates from 175 organizations and 27 countries throughout the Americas, addressed issues of militarization as they affect a whole range of issues, including women’s and indigenous rights, political prisoners, torture, forced disappearances, migration and agrarian
reform, among others. The final day culminated with a march on the U.S. military base in Palmerola, with calls for the United States to withdraw its forces from the country. A detailed 19-point document resulting from the conference outlined the ways in which militarism, specifically that of the United States, affects the hemisphere, it and called for demilitarization and an end to war. [Revistazo,
10/1/08; Adital, 10/2/08; Revistazo,
10/6/08; text of the declaration: Honduras Laboral/COMUN Noticias, 10/7/08]