Food Aid for MOCSAM
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700 honduran sugar cane workers organized as the Campesino Movement of San Manuel (MOCSAM, the spanish acronym) are currently occupying land that they have been attempting to recuperate for 3 1/2 years. They have been under heavy repression from the sugar company CAHSA (suppliers of sugar to Coca Cola in Honduras) who has hired security guards that act more like paramilitary guards, threatening, and on May 17th, 2013 killing 3 members of MOCSAM and wounding 5 more. The farmers (campesinos) are legally entitled to the land. The National Agrarian Institute of Honduras has expropriated the land from the sugar company citing Agrarian laws. The company has greatly exceeded the amount that any one person or company can possess. The company has used its influence and wealth to get the Supreme Court of Honduras to interfere in the expropriation process. Please help the campesinos in their efforts to legally obtain their land. Their greatest need at this moment is food supplies to help feed the 700 people who are living in the sugar cane fields in make shift huts. It is a small request to help them as they reorganize their recuperation plan. The donation will not only help to feed the men, women and children of MOCSAM, but the international solidarity will help to boost their morale as they see that they are not struggling alone.
Organizer
Greg McCain
Organizer
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