VHeadline commentarist Arthur Shaw writes: On Friday, August 28, 2009, a group of just over 20 persons, mostly US citizens, walked or stood in protest of the US imperialist-instigated June 28 overthrow of the democratic government of Honduras. The protest took place in downtown Houston, Texas, in front of of the Mickey Leland Federal Building.

[Mickey Leland was an African American US congressman from Houston, Texas who was a friend of Fidel Castro. Leland tried to bring Cuban doctors to poor areas of the USA to treat uninsured and/or untreated US patients. But the bourgeois regimes in Washington ... under Bush Sr, Reagan, and Carter ... during which Leland served as a member of the US House of Representatives, preferred that US patients die or suffer rather than get treatment, in the USA, from Cuban doctors. And, more often than not, the uninsured and untreated US patients died or suffered, as the US regime knew they would. Leland himself was killed August 7, 1989, in an airplane crash in Ethiopia.]

In addition to and in opposition to the 20 protesters, there were two uniformed Houston police officers and what appeared to be one federal agent of some kind, present, observing the protest.

None of the outlets of Houston's huge bourgeois media ... either broadcast or print ... showed to cover the protest even though all of the outlets were notified and invited. But the protest which lasted from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. drew plenty of attention to the posters, carried by the 20 participants, from passing motorists and passengers in the bumper-to-bumper traffic during the rush hour on Friday evening. The protestors used a small public address system, mounted on a tripod, that was unbelievably loud for its miniature size.

• Some of the messages on the posters carried by the protesters included "Stop The Repression in Honduras," "End the Coup in Honduras Now," "Obama and Clinton, Coup Supporters," "US Troops out of Honduras Now," etc.

There was an interesting group of speakers at the protest which included two electoral candidates, both belong to the Green Party, for seats on the Houston City council. Another speaker was a woman of Honduran origin (who didn't give her name and I wasn't so untactful as to ask for it) who was highly informed about the details of day-to-day Honduran political developments. A University of Houston student who belonged to a campus organization called "Students Against Sweatshops" also spoke about the solidarity activities of his organization with low-income workers. And, a two representatives of a leftist group that organized the protest, group that has deep roots in countless practical struggles in Houston over the last 25 years.

Many left-sponsored events in Houston don't allow electoral candidates to speak or even participate on the periphery. There's an anarchistic taint on much of the Left in Houston that recoils convulsively from anything electoral or legislative. Deborah Shafto, one of the two city council candidates, said "It is the job of everybody to defend democracy wherever it is endangered or extinguished. It is specifically the job of the US people to demand the restoration of democracy in Honduras because the US Government was a party to the conspiracy that overthrew Honduran democracy." Don Cook, the other candidate for city council, said "The overthrow of democracy in Honduras poses a threat to democratic governance all over the western hem