Honduras: Poll Proposed by Resistance Challenges Regime  http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/2406-honduran-resistance-challenges-regime

"On June 28 (2010) we are going to hold a great poll of our people which is going to express our judgment, massively, in favor of a democratic and participatory constitutional constituent assembly in our country," said Rafael Alegría of the National Front of Popular Resistance, earlier this March.  The poll is planned for the one year anniversary of a similar non-binding opinion poll that President Manuel Zelaya wanted to hold to determine whether a majority of Hondurans wanted a referendum on a new constitution to be included in last November's election. The nation's oligarchic press expressed their horror that this was similar to what had happened in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Those nations have established new constitutions that are more favorable toward the rights, participation, and interests of the popular classes. 

From March 12 through 14 about 1000 activists attended a meeting in La Esperanza, including delegates from all the movements that make up the resistance. Giorgio Trucchi provides a report on the conference at kaosenlared.net.In the words of Bertha Cáceres, national coordinator of COPINH, the indigenous rights organization that hosted the gathering, "To refound Honduras means to get together and think and dream about what we want our country to be, and to structure the process for achieving this objective...It is a complex process that must touch all aspects and areas of national life, at the individual and collective levels.

A path of economic and political transformation that confronts the culture of domination, that benefits our people and that leads to a Honduran constitution with justice, humanity, solidarity, sovereignty, self determination, and equality.""We are going to work very hard for the next two and a half months to get to a poll next June 28th, the date of the coup. We have not yet determined what form it will take, but we know that it will be an instrument that will not only serve to count the people who support the constituent assembly process, but also to further the process of uniting us, of mobilizing and organizing," said Reyes.