[link removed] Share ([link removed])

[link removed]: https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.mp%2Frightsaction%2Fcanadian-speaking-tour-announcement Tweet ([link removed]: https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.mp%2Frightsaction%2Fcanadian-speaking-tour-announcement)

[link removed] Forward ([link removed])

November 10, 2025


**
Canadian Speaking Tour Announcement
------------------------------------------------------------


** Impacts of Canadian Tourist Investments on Afro-Indigenous Garifuna Communities in Honduras
------------------------------------------------------------

[link removed]

Tour dates: March 6-21, 2026
Cities: Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal, & surrounding areas (see below)

** If interested in hosting a public presentation, contact Karen Spring (see below)
as soon as possible, to start the planning **


Background context

Since before the U.S. and Canada-backed 2009 military coup that ousted the elected government of Honduras, and increasing during the next 12+ years of a military-backed, narco-trafficking regime, Afro-Indigenous Garifuna communities have denounced and resisted the impacts of Canadian tourist investors in Trujillo Bay, Honduras. Impacts include land and territory dispossession, disregard for Garifuna ancestral land and communal rights, violence, criminalization, and defamation, all fueled by racism and unjust structural privileges enjoyed by foreign investors.

As these land conflicts in Trujillo intensify and Canadian investors use their power to impose their investments in Trujillo, Garifuna communities - led by the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) - denounce the effects of these investment projects on their culture, peoples, and lands, and propose alternatives.

The tour

This tour is an opportunity for OFRANEH to speak directly to Canadians on these issues. The OFRANEH speakers will be accompanied by Karen Spring, who will also speak based on more than 15 years of living and working in Honduras.

Throughout the almost 40 years of its existence, OFRANEH is a federation representing over 46 Garifuna communities across the north coast of Honduras. The organization places a strong focus on protecting the cultural integrity, survival, and the ancestral land rights of the Garifuna people. OFRANEH participates in national and global solidarity movements and spaces and is one of the leading Indigenous organizations in Honduras.
* Who: Representatives of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) and Karen Spring (HSN)
* Cities: The tour will begin in Toronto and surrounding cities (Guelph, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Elmvale/Barrie, ??); east to Peterborough, Kingston and surrounding areas; then to the Ottawa region; then to the Montreal area. (Pending interest, we are willing to explore travel to eastern or western Canada.)
* Sponsors: Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN), Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Social Justice Fund, Rights Action

Confirming the tour, pending interest

If you are interested in hosting a public presentation, helping to fundraise or otherwise support the tour, contact Karen Spring ([email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ) as soon as possible. Depending on interest and acquiring the necessary visas for the OFRANEH representatives, the tour will be confirmed no later than January 15, 2026.

** Please share and re-post this Tour Announcement **

+++

Rights Action is please to support this tour. Since 1998, Rights Action has funded and supported the work and struggles of OFRANEH. From 2008-2013, Karen Spring worked with Rights Action, before joining the Honduras Solidarity Network. We continue to work closely with Karen and the HSN.

Recent posts
* Canadian tourists blaming Garifuna people (Honduras) working and struggling to not lose lands and communities to relentless onslaught of tourism industry. By Karen Spring, Honduras Solidarity Network, Oct.16, 2025, [link removed]
* U.S. and Canadian tourism investors at center of land conflicts and criminalizations of Indigenous Garifuna people in Honduras. By Karen Spring, Honduras Solidarity Network, Aug. 26, 2025, [link removed]
* Canadian and U.S. tourism in Honduras, cases of child pornography and sex crimes, past and present: “A network of child sexual exploitation, human trafficking and other crimes”. By Grahame Russell, March 27, 2025, [link removed]

Tourism and ethnocide
With the risk of over-simplification, the greatest current threat to the Garifuna people – their way of life, lands, culture, and existence as a unique, Indigenous people - is the global tourism industry writ large (gated communities, cruise ship docking areas, five-star exclusive resorts, timeshare condos, etc.) trying to operate all along the north Caribbean coast of Honduras, wresting control of Garifuna lands step by step, sketchy or outright corrupted property sale by property sale.

Work of OFRANEH & Garifuna people
[link removed]

In Rights Action’s OFRANEH-Garifuna land & rights defense archive ([link removed]) , find significant posts going back some 20 years.

OFRANEH
@ofraneh / [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) / www.ofraneh.org / [link removed]

Tax-Deductible Donations (Canada & U.S.)

To support land and environmental defenders, and human rights, justice and democracy defense struggles in Honduras and Guatemala, make check to "Rights Action" and mail to:
* U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
* Canada: Box 82858, RPO Cabbagetown Toronto, ON, M5A 3Y2

Credit-Card Donations: [link removed]
Direct deposits, write to: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Donations of securities, write to: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

13 BRAVE GIANTS ([link removed])
How We Won the Landmark Hudbay Minerals Lawsuits in Canada and the Mynor Padilla Criminal Trial in Guatemala, and at What Cost! ([link removed])
By Grahame Russell, Rights Action

TESTIMONIO Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala ([link removed])
Edited by Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell (Between The Lines, 2021)

More info: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) , www.rightsaction.org
e-Newsletter: [link removed]
Previous e-Newsletters: [link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed] ([link removed])
[link removed]

*******
Please share and re-post this information
*******
[link removed] Facebook ([link removed])
[link removed] Twitter ([link removed])
[link removed] Website ([link removed])
[link removed] Instagram ([link removed])
[link removed] YouTube ([link removed])

============================================================
Copyright © 2025 Rights Action, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you are one of our subscriptor

Our mailing address is:
Rights Action
Box 50887
20091-0887
Washington, DC 0
USA
** unsubscribe from this list ([link removed])
** update subscription preferences ([link removed])
Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp
[link removed]