Following the recent ousting of the democratically elected president and the subsequent repression of dissent, Indigenous and grassroots organisations in Honduras have appealed for international solidarity - see Honduras Resiste http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/2009/07/report-of-repression-in-tegu.... In answer to this call, LASNET - the Latin America Solidarity Network http://www.latinlasnet.org - held a rally at Federation Square in Melbourne on Saturday 1 August. It was small, but was attended by representatives of several Latin American countries, and speakers also included Robbie Thorpe, expressing the support of Indigenous Australians, and Waratah Rose Gillespie, human rights lawyer and "human shield" in Iraq. There is video footage of the rally on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFUu87RrL5Y
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