[News] Oct. 26th Bay Area Protest Against Expanded Foreign Military Intervention in Haiti!
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SF/Bay Area! Come Out To Protest
Expanded Foreign Military Intervention in Haiti
October 26th, 4pm
San Francisco Federal Building
90 - 7th Street, San Francisco
Oppose US and UN military intervention in Haiti!
End the US/ UN occupation of Haiti!
And Urgent Action Alert:
Contact the office of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
<https://news.un.org/en/content/contact-un-news>at ph: (212) 963-7160
Contact Your House Representative
<https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_house>in Congress
Contact Your Senator
<https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm>in Congress
Contact the White House <https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/>at ph:
(202)-456-1111
Also tell US officials to:
Oppose US-financing/training of the Haitian National Police!
Stop US support for the Ariel Henry dictatorship!
Stop the Deportations of all Haitians!
Haiti Action Committee joins with Haiti’s popular movement to strongly
condemn the call
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/07/haiti-military-assistance-us-un-crisis/>for
an expanded foreign military occupation of Haiti made on October 7th by
US/ UN occupation-imposed prime minister Ariel Henry. Henry obediently
followed calls made by the UN Integrated Office in Port-au-Princethe day
before for an expanded UN occupation of Haiti and by OAS General Luis
Almagro who tweeted
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/07/haiti-military-assistance-us-un-crisis/>that
Haiti “must request urgent assistance from the international community
to help resolve security crises, determine the characteristics of an
international security force.”
We strongly condemn the letter
<https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129372>submitted on October 9th
by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the UN Security Council,
proposing the deployment of a foreign, armed occupation force to Haiti.
And we denounce the Biden Administration’s drafting of a UN Security
Council Resolution calling for the immediate deployment of a foreign
“rapid action force” in Haiti, as reported
<https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/15/politics/biden-administration-haiti-united-nations-resolution>on
October 15th.
/Turning to the UN Security Council, the OAS, and the US government to
“stabilize” the crisis in Haiti today is akin to pleading with the
arsonists to quell the fire they have unleashed./
For more than 18 years, ever since the US-backed coup d’etat in 2004
against the democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
Haiti has been under US/ UN occupation, an occupation that has
perpetrated gross human rights abuses
<https://www.cepr.net/soldiers-without-a-cause-why-are-thousands-of-un-troops-still-in-haiti/>including
rape and other forms of sexual abuse
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/03/minustah-un-haiti-abuse>,
an occupation that has brought cholera
<https://www.blackagendareport.com/dirty-occupation-uns-criminal-enterprise-and-ecological-catastrophe-haiti>to
Haiti and that has systematically destroyed Haiti’s institutions while
increasing hunger and misery. <https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114422>
Courageously facing police and paramilitary attacks, the population of
Haiti has taken to the streets in ever-growing numbers, demanding their
basic human rights and democracy, along with an end to corruption and to
the plunder of public resources. They demand an end to US/UN occupation,
and an end to the right-wing Haitian Tét Kale Party (PHTK) regime headed
by Ariel Henry. They are demanding a transitional government of public
safety (Sali Piblik <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzRk6knuNK8%5C>) to
create a foundation for free and fair elections and a return to
democratic rule. They are demanding an end to IMF-imposed austerity,
soaring prices <https://news.trust.org/item/20220714135735-aq0pn>of
basic necessities, and declining real wages. Instead, they are demanding
that their tax money be invested in education, healthcare, sanitation,
clean drinking water, and support for Haiti’s peasant farmers who have
been the backbone of local food production.
Moreover, the people are demanding an end to the terror inflicted by the
Haitian National Police and paramilitaries, including the G-9 death
squad led by ex-police officer Jimmy Cherizier, working with the PHTK
regime. They are demanding an end to the proliferation of kidnappings,
rape, police killings, and massacres
<https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/press-releases/report-finds-haitian-government-complicit-in-crimes-against-humanity/>throughout
the country, such as the horrific Lasalin massacre
<https://www.nlg.org/report-the-lasalin-massacre-and-the-human-rights-crisis-in-haiti/>.
For further testimony regarding this massacre, viewthis powerful video.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6kQH-_IrAg>The people are protesting
the atrocious conditions in Haiti’s prisons and the skyrocketing rate
of prisoner deaths
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/23/haiti-prisons-starvation-un-deaths-crisis#:~:text=It%20blames%20insufficient%20government%20funds,or%20some%20type%20of%20meat>due
to starvation, overcrowding, medical neglect and other abuses. All of
these injustices have been occurring with total impunity, under the
authority of the US/UN occupation.
The US government’s financing of the repressive Haitian National Police
(HNP), which has escalated its attacks against unarmed protestors, has
been extensive, increasing in correlation with the police’s documented
collaboration with paramilitary death squads. As notedrecently, from
“2010 to 2020, Washington pumped
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/13/fact-sheet-u-s-assistance-to-haiti/>in
$312 million for weapons and training. In 2021, the White House and
State Department sent a combined $20 million. In July 2022, the State
Department bolstered
<https://haitiantimes.com/2022/07/15/us-gives-training-and-48m-more-to-fight-crime-in-haiti/>the
SWAT training program with a $48 million package.” All the while, HNP
police killings of unarmed Haitians have continued with impunity.
Neither the major, international human rights organizations nor the UN
Human Rights Commission are keeping track of the thousands of unarmed
Haitians who have been killed and are being killed by the US-imposed
PHTK regime’s police and paramilitary affiliates over the last 5 years.
This past July alone, more than 500 people were killed in the
impoverished neighborhood of Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince. In a rare
development, the US corporate media acknowledged this most recent
killing spree, but attributed it to “gang violence”, fitting the
convenient racist narrative about Haitians in particular and people of
African descent in general. Here are but 3 examples, among hundreds, of
recent victims this year who do not exist within the media universe
defined by CNN, Fox News, MSNBC etc.:
*
This past September 15th, as widely reported inside of Haiti, Widney
Véron Joseph, a nationally esteemed student and second winner of the
new secondary exams for the western department, was killed on the
road to the airport. The father of the victim believes that this act
was committed by agents of the National Police of Haiti. “After
shooting my son, they burned him alive. I begged the police in vain
to allow me to take him to the hospital, they categorically
refused,” said the 21-year-old boy's father in tears on Radio
Caraïbes. Widney Véron Joseph was about to go to a friend's house to
charge his laptop and phone when he was murdered, his father said,
adding that his son would have gone to Canada next October for
medical studies.
*
Two days later, on September 17th, following a day of massive
protest mobilization, the Haitian National Police (HNP) approached a
barricade established by protesters in Delmas 47, a neighborhood in
Port-au-Prince. The police opened fire on the protesters.
Reportedly, according to a community witness, about 4 people were
killed. One community resident, known by her nickname as Doudouce,
was hit by police fire, but was not killed. She was screaming for
help, but when community members tried to intervene to help her, the
police forced them to disperse. Then, according to the witness, a
police-operated heavy machine, like a garbage truck, scooped up the
bodies of the victims, including Doudouce who was still alive and
screaming. The machine then dumped her and the other bodies into the
trash compartment, then dumping atop of them the burning barricades.
*
Also on September 17th, but in the southern city of Okay, police
went to the home of a young activist named Dimmy Samedi. They shot
him in his home, then dragged him out still alive, and shot him
again outside, killing him.
We denounce the arrogance of the UN, OAS, the US government, and the
Core Group
<https://ht.usembassy.gov/press-release-port-au-prince-10-february-2019-the-core-group/>of
imperial powers claiming the role of guardians of the people of Haiti
while they fan the flames of repression and violence.
The Haitian people are not fooled by this tragedy and farce; they
recognize clearly that arsonists cannot be the firefighters. Only the
organized power of the Haitian popular movement can put out the fires
ignited by the 2004-coup d’etat and ensuing US/UN occupation.
We call upon people to condemn all foreign intervention in Haiti and to
stand in solidarity with the Haitian popular movement in this vital moment.
DONATE: Support Haiti’s Popular Movement with a donation to the Haiti
Emergency Relief Fund. <https://haitiemergencyrelief.org/>
<http://www.haitisolidarity.net/>
--
Haiti Action Committee
PO Box 2040
Berkeley,CA 94702
Website <https://haitisolidarity.net>
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Celebrating 30 years of solidarity with the anti-colonial grassroots
struggle for dignity, democracy and self-determination of the Haitian
people!
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