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Rights Action
December 28, 2017
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'If we're attacked, we'll die together' (Topacio Reynoso)
Los Angeles Times portrait of Topacio Reynoso, a Guatemalan activist assassinated while denouncing and resisting harms to her community and the environment, and human rights violations and repression by Tahoe Resources, a U.S.-Canadian company backed by the Guatemalan, U.S. and Canadian governments (and a host of private and pension fund investors).
(Topacio Reynoso, photo LA Times)
'If we're attacked, we'll die together,' a 16-year-old anti-mining activist told her family. But when the bullets came, they killed only her
By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, Dec.27, 2017
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Rights Action 2017 year-end newsletter
Electoral fraud, repression and killings in Honduras … but don’t send protest letters to the regime!
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Matching donor
Two anonymous donors will match donations, up to a total of $35,000, made by December 31, 2017.
Your funds at work
In 2017, Rights Actions transferred over $330,000 of your funds (individual donations, foundation grants) to grassroots organizations carrying out their own community development work, environmental and human rights defense projects, emergency relief projects, and work and struggle for democracy and justice: $215,000 to groups and projects in Guatemala; $43,000 to Honduras; $49,000 to Peru, Mexico and El Salvador; $22,000 for educational and activism related work. A funding summary is on our website. Thank-you for your trust in and commitment to our work and the work and struggles of our partner groups.
Tax-Deductible Donations (Canada & U.S.)
To support the community development, human rights and environmental defense, and emergency relief work of grassroots groups in Honduras and Guatemala working and struggling for justice and fundamental political and economic transformation from the local to global levels, make check payable to "Rights Action" and mail to:
- U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
- Canada: (Box 552) 351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8
Credit-Card Donations: http://rightsaction.org/donate/
Donations of stock? Write to: info@rightsaction.org
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Educational human rights delegation to Guatemala:
“Real life super heroes and the quest for mining justice in Canada and Guatemala”
Please join a Rights Action/MIR centre educational trip to Guatemala.
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