Grassroots Organizers in Honduras With a Lesson For America

HONDURAS COUP
A Honduran indigenous Lenca, holding a chain, take part in a demonstration in support of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Aug 21, 2009. The rights group Amnesty International is alleging widespread abuse of protesters demanding the return of Zelaya, saying in a report Wednesday that hundreds of people have been beaten and detained under the interim government. In background a graffiti that reads in Spanish "Freedom." Esteban Felix / AP Photo
HONDURAS COUP
A Honduran indigenous Lenca, holding a chain, take part in a demonstration in support of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Aug 21, 2009. The rights group Amnesty International is alleging widespread abuse of protesters demanding the return of Zelaya, saying in a report Wednesday that hundreds of people have been beaten and detained under the interim government. In background a graffiti that reads in Spanish "Freedom." Esteban Felix / AP Photo

Grassroots Organizers in Honduras With a Lesson For America

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Carlos Porfirio Armijo is the National Secretary for Education and Training at the Centro Nacional de Trabajadores del Campo CNTC (National Center of Rural Workers). The group provides literacy services for united and also bills itself as a “movement…in permanent resistance to the land-grabbing corporate and private agribusiness and mega-project destruction of land and water.” Carlos joins Worldview to discuss his work as an indigenous community organizer in Honduras and the struggles he faces while fighting for social justice. Translating for Armijo is Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle, an interpreter/translator, community organizer, and member with the Chicago-based human rights group, La Voz de Los de Abajo.