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GRITtv: Honduras: We Refuse To Go Back
The coup in Honduras has all but been forgotten these days, but the people's struggle there goes on. Jose Alcoff was there recently, and contributed this exclusive report recapping the turmoil and checking in with the social movements there about what will happen next.
Email this pageGRITtv: Shot in the Back: The Honduran Coup
The response to the coup d'etat in Honduras went from tepid to swept under the rug completely, but Hondurans still live with the effects of the military removal of their democratically elected leader. In this video from Witness for Peace, we look at the ongoing human impact of the coup.
GRITtv: Honduras Coup Flashpoint for Latin America
The U.S. has decided to recognize the result of the recent elections in Honduras despite ongoing reports that the elections were boycotted and that the people consider them an extension of the coup. But will the coup in Honduras create larger problems for Latin America? What will its effects mean for the rest of Latin America, a region trending leftward in recent years? Nation contributor Greg Grandin and Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College professor join us in studio to discuss. We also have updates from inside Honduras from Andres Conteris of Nonviolence International and Democracy Now!, and freelance journalist Elyssa Pachico reports from Chile.
GRITtv: Consolidating Power in Honduras
In the second part of the Real News Network documentary on the ongoing crisis in Honduras, we look at what happens next. After claiming victory in the heavily-boycotted election, what will the new government do to consolidate its power?
GRITtv: Rigged Election in Honduras?
The recent election in Honduras was boycotted by supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Both candidates in the presidential race were supporters of the coup d'etat, and the victors quickly declared the election free and fair, and claimed 65 percent popular support. Yet as this video from The Real News Network shows, the truth is much more complicated.
GRITtv: Dec. 7, 2009
Since U.S. presidents and Congress have dragged their heels on climate-change legislation, local activists and governments have often taken the lead in pushing for stronger regulations and innovations. Miquela Craytor, James Gennaro and Dale Bryk discuss working locally to create sustainable jobs and fight climate change. John Nichols of the Nation calls for the government to shift TARP money to create a jobs program. Mary Mcbride talks songwriting and being out of the closet as a musician with a very mixed audience. Finally, we revisit Honduras, where the recent election was boycotted by supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
GRITtv: Nothing Resolved in Honduras
The announcement that the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, would be returned to power in a power-sharing agreement seems to have come too soon. In this video from The Real News, we learn that the agreement seems to be doing more to legitimize the coup government than to get rid of it. Citizen activists' end goal is not only restoration of the democratically-elected president but also a constituent assembly to rewrite a constitution that largely favors those with wealth and power, and they are still fighting despite pressure from outside and restrictions from Micheletti's coup regime.
GRITtv: Clock Ticking in Honduras
Al Giordano of Narco News analyzes the options for the Honduran people months after the coup that toppled President Manuel Zelaya. He has little hope for any major change in the situation in the country before the scheduled elections Nov. 29. Zelaya cannot run for reelection due to constitutional term limits, but Giordano suggests, in this video from The Real News, that the popular resistance could take matters into its own hands and hold the referendum that was scheduled to take place before Zelaya's removal, whether the coup regime likes it or not.
GRITtv: Under Siege in Honduras: Inside the Brazilian Embassy
Andres Conteris of Nonviolence International and Democracy Now! en espa'ol is the only English-speaking media representative inside the Brazilian embassy with deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, and he thinks that the U.S. could be doing much more to ensure that democracy prevails in the Central American country. Though the administration has called for the reinstatement of Zelaya, it has not put actual pressure to bear, and Conteris urges GRITtv viewers to call their representatives in Congress and urge sanctions against the coup regime.
GRITtv: September 23, 2009
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, is on Grittv today. She says that all countries, industrialized and developing, must learn to live within their means. Maathai was in New York for the UN summit on climate change, which she addressed yesterday. Speaking of pledges and promises, what remains of the public option? Will it survive? Maggie Mahar, author of "Money-Driven Medicine," offers opinions and suggestions.
