[News] Day of Solidarity - Stand with Haiti March 18th
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Stand with Haiti March 18th Day of Solidarity—March 18th
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*Stand with Haiti*
*March 18, 2021*
*DAY OF SOLIDARITY*
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March 18, 2011: Thousands of Haitians welcome home President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Mrs. Mildred Aristide on their return from 7
years of forced exile.
Ten years ago on March 18, 2011, former president Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, his wife and colleague, Mildred Trouillot Aristide, and
their two children, returned from forced exile in South Africa.
Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Port-au-Prince
and poured into the courtyard of their home to greet them, seeing
in their return a renewal of hope for a democratic and just Haiti.
In honor of that day and to demonstrate our resolve to support the
people’s movement in Haiti, we the undersigned organizations join
with Haiti Action Committee to call for a */Day of Solidarity With
Haiti/ on March 18, 2021*.
Over the last month, hundreds of thousands of Haitians have put
their lives on the line to demand an end to the dictatorship of
Jovenel Moise. The demonstrations have involved the breadth of
Haitian society, from residents of the poorest neighborhoods to
students, women’s organizations, nurses, doctors and lawyers—all
of whom have experienced the terror unleashed by the Moise regime.
The popular movement in Haiti is calling for a transition
government, a government of public safety (/Sali Piblik/) that
promotes the security and welfare of the Haitian people, that ends
the repression against popular organizations, and that moves the
country peacefully towards genuine free and fair elections.
Moise and his right-wing PHTK party have been ruling by decree for
over a year, and are pushing to enact illegitimate constitutional
reforms that would give him even more authority. Even though his
official term of office ended on February 7th, he has announced
his intention to remain in power for one more year.
The Moise regime represents a continuation of the
U.S.-orchestrated 2004 /coup/ that ousted the government of
President Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected
president. The /coup/ aimed at restoring the power of the tiny
Haitian elite that was threatened by Aristide’s progressive
policies and his attempt to bring about a new Haiti—one in which
the majority would rise from “misery to poverty with dignity,” and
in which the phrase “/Tout Moun Se Moun/” (Every person is a human
being) would become a reality.
From the very beginning, the Moise regime has been illegitimate.
He first came to power through a U.S.-U.N. organized fraudulent
election that was annulled only after widespread protests. The
next round was also replete with fraud and voter suppression and
was denounced widely in Haiti as an “electoral coup.” In protest,
Haitians staged over 60 straight days of massive demonstrations
and mounted legal challenges that were cut short by occupation
authorities. In the end, the U.S., U.N. and the OAS imposed Moise
as president, leading to the crisis in Haiti today.
In November, 2018, as Moise consolidated his power, Fanmi Lavalas
Political Organization, the party founded by Aristide that has
long represented the interests of Haiti’s poor majority, issued a
statement titled /Crisis And Resolution/, demanding an end to the
dictatorship. It read, in part:
*“The population is rejecting the usurpers who have derived their
power from the fraudulent elections and who have discredited
themselves with multiple scandals involving corruption and
impunity. Our people are facing savage repression that continues
to create victims among the disadvantaged masses, and that is
heightening the insecurity that is poisoning daily life for the
majority. Fanmi Lavalas Political Organization continues to stand
firmly with the Haitian people to “/chavire chodyè a/” (overturn
the cauldron). No cosmetic solution will bring an effective and
lasting solution to the crisis in which we are plunged. This
system has run its course. It cannot be patched up. It must be
changed.”*
Feb. 14, 2021 over 100,000 denounce Jovenel Moise dictatorship in
Port-au-Prince.
These words ring even more true today. Moise’s rule reminds
Haitians of the terrible days of the Duvalier dictatorships. It
has been marred by repeated acts of blatant corruption and
repression. Billions of dollars in funds designated for social
programs and infrastructure development, provided through
Venezuela’s Petrocaribe program, instead went into the pockets of
government officials. U.S. and U.N.-trained Haitian police and
affiliated gangs or death squads have carried out massacres in one
opposition neighborhood after another, with the backing of high
government officials.
Community residents protesting the lack of basic services have
seen their homes burned to the ground, as happened in the
Port-au-Prince neighborhoods of Lasalin, Tokyo, Site Vensan, and
Bele among others. Kidnappings and gang rapes have become the
order of the day, as government-affiliated gangs prey on the
population. No one is safe, including street vendors and market
women with little to no funds.
While the country descends into state-sponsored terror, impunity
remains the order of the day. Well-known perpetrators with arrest
warrants such as G-9 death squad leader Jimmy “Barbecue”
Cherizier, wanted in connection with the massacre at Lasalin
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2018, go about freely and even receive police protection. In a
disgraceful statement, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on
October 20, 2020 credited the G-9 with reducing homicides -- while
the G-9 was murdering residents of Bele and burning their homes --
thus giving a U.N. seal of approval to these crimes.
Without the support of the U.N., U.S., E.U. and the OAS -- the
so-called Core Group that exercises control over Haiti -- the
Moise government would fall. That is why the first action of the
Biden Administration in relation to Haiti was so appalling. State
Department spokesperson Ned Price announced in February that the
U.S. government would support Moise remaining in power until
February 7th, 2022, giving Moise another year to attempt to
dismantle all opposition. Millions of US dollars have already been
provided to the Moise dictatorship to fund his murderous security
forces, as he ratchets up repression in his efforts to keep his
PHTK party in power.
As Haitians rise up once again to demand democratic governance,
security and economic and social justice, we echo their call.
*Please continue emails, tweets and phone calls to U.S.
representatives, demanding:*
1. *End U.S. recognition and support for the dictatorship of Jovenel
Moise *
2. *End U.S. funding of the criminal Haitian police and security forces*
3. *End the U.N./U.S. occupation of Haiti*
4. *Support the Haitian people’s movement for democracy and
self-determination*
*Direct these demands to the following officials and to your
Congressional Representative and Senators:*
*US Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Senior Member, House Foreign
Relations Committee: tweet @RepGregoryMeeks; ph: 202-225-3461
;*
*Secretary of State Antony Blinken: *tweet @SecBlinken; ph:
202-647-4000; email https://register.state.gov/contactus/contactusform
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*President Joseph Biden: *tweet at POTUS; email
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
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#SolidaritywithHaiti #StandwithHaiti #SupportdemocracyinHaiti
#humanrights #Blacklivesmatter #Haitianlivesmatter #Aristide #Lavalas
#stopmassacresinHaiti #USstopfundingdictatorshipinHaiti
#USstopfundingpoliceterrorinHaiti
#US/UN/CoreGroupStopSupportingDictatorshipinHaiti
#US/UN/CoreGroupOutofHaiti!
Initiated by Haiti Action Committee
*SIGNED:*
Advancing the Research
AFRICANS DESERVE REPARATIONS NOW!
Afrikan Children’s Advanced Learning Center
All-African People's Revolutionary Party
ANSWER-Act Now to Stop War & End Racism-Bay Area
Arab Resource and Organizing Center
Avotcja & Modúpue
BAYAN-USA
Bay Area Alliance for a Sustainable Puerto Rico
Bay Area CISPES
Bay Area Youth Arts
Caminante Cultural Foundation
Center for Political Education
Chiapas Support Committee (Los Angeles – College Students)
Chiapas Support Committee Oakland
Code Pink
Comité en Pro del Pueblo de Chiapas
Communist Workers League
Destiny Muhammad Project
EastSide Arts Alliance Collective
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
Ecumenical Peace Institute/Clergy and Laity Concerned
End Solitary Santa Cruz County [California, USA]
Freedom Archives
GABRIELA USA
Global Exchange
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
Hastings-to-Haiti Partnership
Human Agenda
International Action Center
International Committee of the National Lawyers Guild
International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
John George Democratic Club
Justice Vanguard
Kemet Foundation
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Marcus BookStores
National Boricua Human Rights Network
National Lawyers Guild
National Lawyers Guild–SF Bay Area
New Afrikan People's Organization
Nicaragua Center for Community Action
Pan-African Peoples’ Organization
Pax Christi Northern California
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
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Phavia Kujichagulia N Maat
The Puerto Rican Cultural Center
San Francisco Bayview National Black Newspaper
San Jose Peace and Justice Center
Sisters of St. Francis, Alameda, CA
Students for Haiti Solidarity
Task Force on the Americas
Veterans for Peace Chapter 69–San Francisco
Western States Legal Foundation
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom US
Workers World Party
For more information, please contact: *Haiti Action Committee* at
*www.haitisolidarity.net
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