Honduran community activist Gilberto Flores and Jenni Petullo of Rights Action spoke about the history and current political situation in Honduras on April 13 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz.

Privatization of public services, the building of mega-dams, deforestation, and harmful mining practices, as well as human rights abuses are among the challenges facing Honduran communities. Flores and Petullo discussed how these problems fit within the context of corporate globalization, international financial institutions, and multilateral trade agreements.

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1) Update on the student hunger fasts in support of the Taco Bell boycott
2) The demands of Immokalee workers
3) Write President of Taco Bell!

ACT FOR THE EARTH: a bioregional ecology conference and skills training
April 30 - May 2 at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon

One woman becoming homeless because of two signatures sent on to HUD/OCHA is not news...but the fact that thousands of housing applicants are being run over and over by dipolmatic, discriminating governemt employees daily in their government humvees and made a part of the road kill of the burearacy of prejudices...now is the time to be heard America, the next victim could be someone you love or you!