An Evening with Honduran Leaders Miriam Miranda & Bertha Zúniga Cáceres
We invite you to join us for an evening with internationally renowned Honduran Indigenous rights leaders Miriam Miranda and Bertha Zúniga Cáceres on Wednesday, July 12 at 6:30 PM at New York University.
Join Miriam Miranda and Bertha Zúniga Cáceres, renowned Honduran Resistance leaders, to find out more about Indigenous struggles for rights, territory, and Mother Earth. Miriam Miranda is the General Coordinator of Grassroots International partner OFRANEH, the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras, which organizes Garifuna communities in defense of ancestral territory along the Atlantic coast of Honduras. Bertha Zúniga Cáceres is the General Coordinator of Grassroots International grantee COPINH, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, and the daughter of Berta Cáceres, the founder of COPINH and Lenca leader whose murder shook the world last year.
Please join us for this Grassroots International event, sponsored by New York University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and co-sponsored by CISPES, Fondo Acción Urgente-América Latina, Fund for Global Human Rights, Global Greengrants Fund, Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, Honduras Solidarity Network, NoVo Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Solidaire Network, Thousand Currents, United Methodist Women, Urgent Action Fund, WhyHunger, and Witness for Peace (partial list).
- WHEN: Wednesday, July 12 at 6:30 PM
- WHERE: NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 53 Washington Square South, 4W (Auditorium) in New York