I consider myself a member of the DailyKos community. I believe that community includes many of my concerns, from returning democracy to America to animal rights (and wrongs)--with a host of topics that thinking progressives care about in between. I've been searching--and hoping--for more diaries about international events, and America's relationship to those events--sometimes unsuccessfully.
Hence, this diary, with an invitation to join me in exploring how progressives like ourselves are working to change their own societies, and how we can extend our borders of concern to embrace those efforts.
Specifically this morning, I want to talk about Honduras, and to tell you all about two really terrific sources I've found that I check regularly. The first is Al Giordano's splendid www.narconews.com. I can't say enough about the impassioned brilliance of Al's reporting. He puts the mainstream media into the vapid and ridiculous zone in which most of them belong. Secondly, www.soawatch.org. This is the group led by the saintly Father Roy Bourgeois, which now is focussing on exposing the links of the Honduras coup leaders to their training at the horrific School of the Americas in Georgia.
Both groups are on the ground, or heading, to Honduras, which is ground zero in the battle to save the fragile populist democracy in Honduras--and that involves the fate of all the other populist elected leaders in Latin America. Like our own struggle over stolen elections, like our own efforts to extend living wages and healthcare to our own poor, like our own concern for our indigenous and formerly enslaved peoples, the battle in Honduras is one of heart-stopping drama. Brave teachers and union leaders have already died trying to save their democracy.
Please Kossacks, join me in the efforts of soawatch.org, global exchange, and other organizations who care about the past--and future--of Central America.