She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America from Haymarket Books. A free-will donation toward program expenses will be collected. Dana Frank is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence. Since the coup she has published numerous op-eds on the coup and the Resistance, and spoken widely on the radio. Frank has been working with the banana unions of Honduras since 2001 and is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, focusing on Honduras, and is writing a book on the history of the AFL-CIO's Cold War intervention in the Honduran labor movement. UCSC Professor Dana Frank will discuss her recent trip to Honduras, where she interviewed over 25 members of the Resistance. Yet a great fearlessness permeates the Resistance, and a new, hopeful Honduras has emerged. Tremendous represssion, including targeted assassinations of grassroots activists, continues under the new government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa and the very same generals who ran the coup. The Resistance unites labor unions, campesino organizations, human rights groups, indigenous and Black movements, the GLBT movement, and the women's movement. Hondurans rose up in an enormous popular Resistance protesting the coup and demanding not only Zelaya's restitution, but a Constitutional Convention and the re-making of Honduran society. She uses interviews and participant observation in. labor historian Dana Frank shifts her focus to Latin America.

The Jmilitary coup that overthrew President Mel Zelaya produced a massive grassroots transformation of Honduran society. In Bananeras: Women Transforming The Banana Unions of Latin America, U.S. The Transformation of the Honduran People since the Coup of June 28, 2009

Bananeras by Dana Frank