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MUCHAS GRACIAS

REPRESSION & POVERTY
HOPE & RESISTANCE
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & COMMUNITY CONTROLLED DEVELOPMENT

Below, some high-lights of our work in 2009.  This work of resistance and justice is not possible without your financial support.  To make a donation, tax-deductible in 2009, see below.

In 2009, we channeled over $750,000 of grants and individual donations to partner groups in Guatemala and Honduras, as well as in Chiapas, El Salvador and Peru; and carried out and coordinated technical support, education and activism work addressing the underlying causes of exploitation and poverty, environmental destruction and repression.

HONDURAS PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT

Since the June 28 military-oligarchic coup against the government of President Zelaya in Honduras, we channeled over $75,000 to the anti-coup, pro-democracy movement in Honduras.  This courageous and visionary struggle – against a military-oligarchy dominated government and society, in favor of the re-founding of the nation and society - continues in 2010.

SCHOOLS & SCHOLARSHIPS

Since 1996, this program area has grown into funds and support for 12 community-based visionary schools and scholarship programs in mainly Mayan communities in rural Guatemala.

REFORESTATION & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

After the devastation of Hurricane Stan, 2005, we fund reforestation and community environmental defense projects in Mayan communities in the dry corridor (corredor seco) of central and eastern Guatemala.

MINING & DAMS * versus * COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

In Honduras and Guatemala, as well as Peru and El Salvador, we fund and work with communities and watershed regions harmed by mainly Canadian gold, silver and nickel mining companies, as well as hydro-electric dam projects.  These are comprehensive struggles: community controlled development, human rights, environmental justice and disaster response.

EMERGENCY & DISASTER RESPONSE

We provided rapid response funds and support to:

      Victims of repression for their anti-military coup work in Honduras, and for their human rights, community development and environmental justice work in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

      Communities harmed by mudslides in impoverished Mayan-Achi communities in Alta Verapaz, along the Chixoy River, Guatemala. These mudslides may have been caused by structural weakness in the mountain, due to a 25 kilometer tunnel built through the mountain for the Chixoy hydro-electric dam, a project of the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank.

      Communities harmed by heavy rains and mudslides in impoverished Mayan-Chorti communities of eastern Guatemala.

NORTH-SOUTH EDUCATION & ACTIVISM

It is Rights Action’s understanding that the injustices our partner groups are working to address – environmental harm, military coups, repression, exploitation and poverty – are national and global, north-south issues at the same time.  We led educational delegations of North Americans to Honduras and Guatemala and brought community leaders to Canada and the USA on speaking tours to learn and educate about the range of issues.

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VARIOUS INFORMATIONS

• Honduras: Support for a 55 minute doc-film, by Steven Schnoor, “All That Glitters Is Not Gold”, http://www.rightsaction.org/video/gold/

• http://www.rightsaction.org/articles/Eight_Women_112608.html - support for a 10 minute YouTube doc-film, “Eight Mayan Women” in resistance to harms by Goldcorp Inc in San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala,

• A BBC news report on harms caused by the Goldcorp Inc in Guatemala: http://www.rightsaction.org/articles/BBC_Goldcorp_031109.html

• Photo-Essays documenting health harms caused by Goldcorp Inc’s open-pit, cyanide bonding gold mines in Guatemala (http://www.rightsaction.org/articles/San_Miguel_022009.htm) and Honduras (http://www.rightsaction.org/articles/photo_Honduras_mining_harms.html)

• Providing emergency health treatment for a Mayan-Mam man whose health deteriorated probably due to contaminants from Goldcorp Inc’s mine: http://www.rightsaction.org/articles/Emetrio_Perez_013109.html

• Education and activism, in Guatemala and Vancouver, the day of Goldcorp’s AGM, May 22: http://www.rightsaction.org/articles/goldcorp_meetings_052609.html

• The Chixoy Dam Reparations Campaign, seeking compensation and reparations from the Guatemalan government, World Bank and Inter-American Development bank for the massacres, forced relocations and loss of property and land due to the Chixoy Dam project.

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MAKE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS

Make check (dated December 31, 2009) payable to "Rights Action" and mail to:
*  UNITED STATES:  Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
*  CANADA:  552 - 351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8
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Rights Action (with tax-deductible status in Canada and USA) funds and works with indigenous, development, environment and human rights organizations in Guatemala and Honduras, and also in El Salvador and Chiapas; and educates about and is involved in activism related to global development, environmental and indigenous and human rights struggles.