The Second Hemispheric Meeting Against Militarization will take place in La Esperanza municipality, Intibuca department, Honduras, from October 2nd to 6th. Delegates of over twenty countries confirmed their participation.
The activity will be held five years after the first call, held in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in preparation for the Americas Social Forum to be held in Guatemala from October 7th through 12th.
The calling groups believe this is another space of the Americas Social Forum and want this issue to be key in the struggle for emancipation.
The preparatory documents mention the need to strengthen the opposition to Plan Puebla Panama, and neocolonial looting of natural resources. The grassroots movements want the meeting to be a form of exhibition of the historical problem caused by the permanent invasions on Latin American soil.
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