[News] Saturday - Haiti Solidarity March & Rally in San Francisco Feb 26, 1pm

[Anti-Imperialist News]

Join Haiti Action Committee, Students for Haiti Solidarity and Justice 
Vanguard

*This Saturday, February 26, 1 pm at the new Federal Building, 7^th 
  Street & Mission, SF*

**to commemorate the 2004 coup that kidnapped and overthrew Haiti’s 
elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and to call for due process for 
Haitian refugees and an end to the US/UN military occupation that has 
imposed death squad dictatorships on Haiti’s people ever since.


Feb 26 Haiti March_Rally.png

Across Haiti, popular organizations are calling for the end of the 
US-backed regime and the installation of a transitional government. Yet 
the Biden Administration continues to insist on its choice of prime 
minister, Ariel Henry, who has no mandate and no legitimacy.
In 1990 Haiti elected Aristide president, but Haiti’s military with US 
collaboration overthrew him in 1991. He was re-elected in 2000, but was 
overthrown again on February 29, 2004, when US military officials 
kidnapped him and his family and flew them into forced exile in the 
Central African Republic. A series of presidents elected through 
fraudulent elections in which the Lavalas Party was not allowed to even 
participate until 2015 (when it was cheated out of victory) have looted 
Haiti’s resources and ruled through police and death squad terror. Now 
the powers that be are trying to force new corrupt elections on a 
devastated Haiti completely unequipped to hold a democratic election, 
while the grassroots majority is calling for a
transitional government of honest and respected leaders who will work to 
rebuild Haiti’s institutions before fair elections can be held.

In the few short years Aristide and the grassroots Lavalas movement held 
power, they built more schools than had been built in they built more 
schools than had been built in Haiti’s

history, along with health centers, housing, parks, and a hospital. The 
Aristides returned to Haiti in 2011, and have focused on educating 
Haiti’s next generation through the University of the Aristide 
Foundation (UNIFA.)

As it attempts to thwart moves towards ending dictatorship in Haiti, the 
Biden Administration has deported more than 20,000 Haitian refugees, in 
one of the speediest mass deportations in US history. Having fled from 
conditions produced by US policy in Haiti, they are now being sent back 
into the US-created nightmare they fled.

*This is a time for all of us to stand in solidarity with Haiti.* 
<https://haitisolidarity.net/urgent-action-alert/>

*Please call, tweet and/or email President Biden to demand:*

*Stop the expulsions and deportations of Haitian refugees! End all 
support for the Ariel Henry dictatorship!*


*Call the White House TUESDAY to THURSDAY, 11am-3pm ET
 202-456-1111; 
tweet @JoeBiden*


-- 
Haiti Action Committee
PO Box 2040
Berkeley,CA 94702
https://haitisolidarity.net

<https://haitisolidarity.net/donate/>
/Please direct your donation for Haiti earthquake relief to the Haiti 
Emergency Relief Fund www.haitiemergencyrelief.org 
<http://www.haitiemergencyrelief.org>.Thank you.
/

/Contributions to Haiti Action Committee are not tax deductible for IRS 
purposes/
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