Medea Benjamin of Code Pink/Global Exchange reports from Honduras
She is a co-founder of Code Pink, a woman’s peace group. Medea Benjanmin also is founding director of the human rights group Global Exchange, has struggled for social justice and human rights in Asia, the Americas, and Africa for over 25 years. Upon learning of events in Honduras this past Sunday, she packed her bags and headed for the Central American country now mired in the aftermath of a military coup which seems to unfold a new story-line daily. She is there as part of a three group delegation on a fact-finding mission (her words). Her kind of reporting on the Honduras situation seems hard to find in the States.
Alvaro F. Fernandez
What follows is an update which appears in OpEdNews.
“We started out with a briefing by the Network of Sustainable Development (Red de Desarrollo Sostenible, a 15-year-old organization devoted to the exchange of information about sustainable development. It has now become a center for exchanging information about the coup. Using blogspot, facebook, twitter, myspace, flickr and youtube, the Network’s network is abuzz with hour-by-hour accounts of political developments. Their communication system has become a critical way for Honduras to get information, since the coup leaders have muzzled the press.”
