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Declaration by the Frente Popular En Contra el Golpe de Estado: Roger Ivan Bado, trade unionist, member of the leftist party the UD, assassinated in his home on Saturday, July 11th.

National Front of Resistance Against the Coup
We condemn the assassination of Roger Ivan Bados

Ayer sábado 11 de Julio a eso de las 8:00 de la noche fue asesinado el compañero Roger Iván Bados en la Colonia 6 de Mayo, sector Rivera Hernández, por hombres armados que llegaron a asesinarlo a su casa de habitación. Roger Bados, como le conocíamos, ha sido militante activo del Bloque Popular en el Valle de Sula, destacado miembro del partido Unificación Democrática (UD), muy reconocido por su beligerancia en la década de los ochenta como dirigente del desaparecido Sindicato de Trabajadores de Textiles de Honduras (SITRATEXHONSA), miembro de la Candidatura Independiente Popular como regidor a la Corporación Municipal de la ciudad de San Pedro Sula, defensor de los derechos y causas justas del pueblo hondureño trabajador y militante de todas las manifestaciones de resistencia desarrolladas en los últimos 13 días realizadas en esta ciudad contra el golpe de estado ocurrido el pasado 28.

Saturday, July 11 at 8pm, compañero Roger Ivan Bados was assassinated by armed men who came to his home for that purpose. Roger Bados, has been an active member of the Popular Block (Bloque Popular) in the Valley of Sula, an outstanding member of the Democratic Unficiation Party (UD), very recognized for his combativeness in the 80’s, as a leader of the now defunct, Union of Textile Workers of Honduras (SITRATEXHONSA), a member of the Independent Popular Candidacy on the Council of the Municipal Corporation of the City of San Pedro Sula, defender of the rights and just causes of the Honduran people, a worker for and activist in all the demonstrations of resistence organized in the last 13 days in this city against the coup d’etat that occurred on the 28th.

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Viva Palestina: Navigating Egypt’s Obstacle Course
Soozy Duncan, Viva Palestina US, 14 July 2009

The Viva Palestina U.S. convoy has been facing barrier after barrier in recent days despite having initially hoped to cross into the Gaza Strip this morning. The Egyptian government, collaborator in Israel’s severe blockade for the past 2 years, has set up a course of administrative obstacles which will delay the group’s entry into Gaza.

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VIVA PALESTINA

Today, July 14: Demand That Egypt Let the Viva Palestina Convoy into Gaza!

New York City: 4-6 p.m.
Egyptian Mission to the UN
304 East 44th St. (@ 2nd Ave.) New York, NY 10017
Telephone: 212.503.0300
Sponsors: Al-Awda-NY, Existence is Resistance, International Action Center, International Socialist Organization, Campus Antiwar Network, New York City Labor Against the War Vets for Peace. If you would like your organization to be a cosponsor, or for more information, please email info@al-awdany.org

DC: Noon
Egyptian Embassy
3521 International Court, NW
(Van Ness metro — red line)
For updates on the Washington, DC protest — or to endorse — contact 703.231.7553.
Call initiated by Viva Palestina. Endorsers list in formation.

Correction: San Francisco: 3-6 p.m.
Consulate General of Egypt
276 Mallorca Way
San Francisco, CA

Houston: 4-6 p.m.
Egyptian Consulate
5718 Westheimer Road, Suite 1350
Houston, TX 77057
Tel: 713-961-4915

Correction: Chicago: Noon
Egyptian Consulate
500 N. Michigan Ave. — Suite 1900 Chicago, IL 60611
Tel: 312.828.9162

*** If there is no Egyptian Consulate or Mission in your city, protest at the nearest Federal Building

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Viva Palestina Convoy update #3
July 12, 2009, 7 pm Cairo

The Viva Palestina members who spent the night in their buses at the Suez Crossing after they were stopped by Egyptian authorities on July 11 are now making their way to the nearby city of Ismailia and are preparing to resume their travels toward Gaza imminently.

British Member of Parliament George Galloway, who has met up with former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in Cairo, was working with Egyptian and U.S. authorities to expedite the passage of the convoy over the Suez Canal and into Gaza.

New York City Councilmember Charles Barron, who led the group at the Suez Canal, says, “Whether these requirements are genuine or not, we will get around these obstacles. “We are going to Gaza.”

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Viva Palestina US update — July 11, 2009

The largest ever US humanitarian aid convoy is now gathering in Egypt to head across the border into Gaza on Monday, July 13.

Vehicles are coming from Alexandria, the medical supplies from Cairo and the advanced party of nearly 100 US citizens is heading for the staging post of Al Arish, just before the border with Gaza.

That group, of four buses, has, however, been stopped from crossing over the Suez Canal and into the Sinai region, which leads to Gaza.

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