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<p><span style="font-size:14px"> <b>Urge Anderson Cooper to ask how U.S. policy in Honduras should change after the assassination of Berta Caceres. </b> </span></p>
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<p>Honduras has lost one of its most courageous indigenous leaders, Berta Caceres. Caceres was the General Coordinator of the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras. In 2015, she won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her activism and leadership. She was assassinated on March 2. <br>
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<b>Urge Anderson Cooper to ask Bernie Sanders & Hillary Clinton about U.S. policy in Honduras during the Democratic debate Sunday in Michigan by signing our petition at MoveOn:<br>
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<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=j08psp0zV%2Fex1YRPJVlGyZf6hLJEtd2p" target="_blank"> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/DemDebate-Berta-Caceres</a></b><br>
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At her memorial service on March 5, Berta's children read a statement from Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy. In his statement, Leahy said: "<b>the investigation of this crime must be independent and comprehensive</b>, including the participation of international experts. Those responsible for ordering and carrying it out must be brought to justice…the Rio Blanco and the territory that Berta devoted her life to defend, should be protected. The Agua Zarca dam project should be abandoned." [1]<br>
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U.S. government policy is implicated in Berta's death. The U.S. government has financed and defended the Honduran government that failed to protect Berta's life. [2] <b>Senator Leahy has said that future U.S. aid to the government of Honduras should be tied to the outcome</b> of an <b>independent investigation</b> into the assassination. [3]<b><br>
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<b>Urge Anderson Cooper to ask Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton how U.S. government policy in Honduras should change following this crime by signing and sharing our petition:<br>
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<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mY3ajXFYqdnm9fdAMqV70Zf6hLJEtd2p" target="_blank"> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/DemDebate-Berta-Caceres</a></b><br>
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Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just,<br>
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Robert Naiman, Avram Reisman, and Sarah Burns<br>
Just Foreign Policy<br>
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References:<br>
1. <a href="https://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/remarks-of-senator-patrick-leahy-on-remembering-berta-caceres" target="_blank">https://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/remarks-of-senator-patrick-leahy-on-remembering-berta-caceres</a><br>
2. <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-clinton-backed-honduran-regime-is-picking-off-indigenous-leaders/" target="_blank">http://www.thenation.com/article/the-clinton-backed-honduran-regime-is-picking-off-indigenous-leaders/</a><br>
3. <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/probe-assassination-berta-caceres" target="_blank">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/probe-assassination-berta-caceres</a></p>
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