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Presente and the Honduran Project invite you to a Panel
Discussion on current events in Honduras with
representatives of Honduran Civil Society and Immigrant
Leaders in the U.S.</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><FONT
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">When: </SPAN>Thursday, 6
August 2009, 10:00 am</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Where:</SPAN> 206 Cabot
Hall,The Fletcher School, Tufts
University</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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Packard Avenue, Medford, MA</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
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more information contact:</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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Montes- Centro Presente, Boston, MA- (617) 959 -
3108</SPAN><BR><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Tito
Meza - Honduran Project, Chelsea, MA - (617) 610 -
3784</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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Lopez - Honduran Project, Chelsea, MA - (617) 306 -
1365</SPAN><BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Panelists
will include:</SPAN><BR><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Dr. Juan Almendares </SPAN>(to
be confirmed) is an internationally known Honduran
medical doctor, human rights activist, environmental
leader and alternative medicine practitioner. He
has received recognition for his outstanding and
courageous work with victims of torture in Honduras. He
is the internationally chosen recipient of the 2001
Barbara Chester Award for his groundbreaking efforts
with prisoners, victims of torture, the poor, and
indigenous populations. A torture survivor himself, Dr.
Almendares has been targeted by death squads on several
occasions.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Oscar Chacón</SPAN> serves
currently as Executive Director of the National Alliance
of Latin American & Caribbean Communities (NALACC).
Until December, 2006, Mr. Chacón served as director of
Enlaces América, a project of the Chicago-based
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights. Mr.
Chacón served for most of the 1990's as executive
director of Centro Presente, Inc, in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Mr. Chacón served for many years as
president of the Salvadoran American National Network
(SANN). Mr. Chacón is a frequent lecturer in national
and international conferences, as well as a media
spokesperson on Latino immigrant issues in the U.S.
</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Abencio Fernández Pineda
</SPAN>is the coordinator of the non-governmental
organization Center for the Investigation and Defense of
Human Rights in Honduras (CIPRODEH, by its Spanish
initials) for the western region of Honduras. Mr.
Pineda was previously an attorney for the Committee for
the Defense of Human Rights (CODEH) and the Committee of
the Relatives of Disappeared Detainees of Honduras
(COFADEH).</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Maria Luisa Jimenez</SPAN>, a
former police officer in Honduras, denounced the
widespread corruption in the police force and is now an
activist for transparency in government and women's
rights. She is currently a candidate for Honduran
Congress with the Democratic Union party
(UD).</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Dr. Luther Castillo.
</SPAN>Dr. Castillo is a young Garifuna medical doctor
and community organizer who directs the Luaga Hatuadi
Waduheñu Foundation ("For the Health of our People" in
Garifuna), dedicated to bringing vital health services
to isolated indigenous coastal communities. After his
2005 graduation from the Latin American Medical School
in Havana, Dr. Castillo returned to the Honduran coast,
where he led the Foundation's construction of Honduras'
first Garifuna Rural Hospital, now serving some 20,000
in the surrounding communities. The hospital
opened in December 2007, a few months after Dr. Castillo
was named "Honduran Doctor of the Year" by Rotary
International's Tegucigalpa chapter.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Gerardo Torres</SPAN> is an
independent journalist in Honduras who is also an active
member of Los Necios, a grass-roots organization that
seeks to change the dominant socio-economic dynamics of
Honduras.</SPAN></FONT><BR></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR>
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