[Peace] Weekly Action: Urge Hillary to Declare "Military Coup" in Honduras

[Karen Medina]

AWARE from time to time approves a "Weekly Action": we suggest an
action that we would like to see taken en masse during that week.

The Weekly Action for this week is to call the State Department at
202-647-5171. Deliver the following message: "Secretary Clinton,
please follow the recommendation of the State Department. Legally
define the de facto regime in Honduras as a military coup and cut off
all non-humanitarian aid to Honduras until President Zelaya is
reinstated."

You can see more details in the message from Robert Naiman below.

AWARE likes to keep a tally of how many people do the weekly action.
You may tell me (kmedina67 at gmail.com) if you participated. Thank you
so much for considering this.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Subject: Urge Hillary to Declare "Military Coup" in Honduras
To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org


Dear Robert,

Thank you for the actions you've taken to increase U.S. pressure on
the coup regime in Honduras. In response to pressure from the U.S.
public, Congress, and from Latin America, the Obama Administration is
starting to move.

Late yesterday Reuters reported that State Department officials have
recommended to Secretary of State Clinton that she formally declare
what took place on June 28 in Honduras a "military coup." [1] Under
U.S. law, this would cut off all remaining non-humanitarian U.S. aid
to the coup regime.

Could you make a phone call today to Secretary Clinton, urging her to
follow the recommendation of her staff, and formally declare that a
military coup has taken place in Honduras?

Call the State Department at 202-647-5171. Deliver the following
message: "Secretary Clinton, please follow the recommendation of the
State Department. Legally define the de facto regime in Honduras as a
military coup and cut off all non-humanitarian aid to Honduras until
President Zelaya is reinstated."

Please forward this message to anyone you know who you think will take action.

Thank you for all you do for a just foreign policy,

Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy

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References:

1) "State Department Recommends Aid Cutoff to Honduras,"
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/312.