[News] Haiti was Robbed!

[Anti-Imperialist News]

REPARATIONS NOT DEPORTATIONS

It's 200 years since France forced Haiti at gunpoint to pay for the 
“crime” of overthrowing slavery!

HAITI WAS ROBBED!


This July marks 200 years since France imposed its notorious 
independence ransom on Haiti. The ransom has produced incalculable 
misery and violence for Haiti’s people and a legacy of environmental 
destruction. In 2003, then President Aristide demanded that France pay 
Haiti back an amount now estimated at $115 billion in today’s currency. 
His call for Reparations and Restitution is echoed throughout Haiti 
today. As Haiti’s former First Lady Mildred Aristide 
<https://haitisolidarity.net/haiti-restitution-and-reparations/>said 
recently:“This…is what reparatory justice looks like. Advocating for 
what is just and right – restitution and reparations for all formerly 
enslaved and colonized people – while at the same time taking action to 
repair Haiti.”

Few places so clearly demonstrate the link between empire, colonialism, 
racial and climate justice as Haiti. To finance the debt imposed first 
by France and then by U.S. banks, Haiti took out predatory loans, 
imposed heavy taxes on peasants, and exported Haiti’s timber, driving 
deforestation. The debt robbed Haiti of money for schools and public 
services: sewage, electricity, water, and public health systems—the 
essential infrastructure to protect lives, especially in the face of 
climate change. Today, Port-au-Prince is one of the world’s largest 
cities lacking a centralized sewage system - increasing the deadly 
impact of heavy rains.

Empire and foreign plunder continue to shatter Haitian lives and wreck 
the environment: peasant land seizures dismantle domestic food 
production, drive dependence on imported food and lead to widespread 
hunger; extractive international mining propels human displacement, soil 
erosion, air and water pollution; foreign armies spread terror and 
sexual violence, target popular resistance, and subvert democracy.

Today, 40% of Haitians live in extreme poverty, and over 5.7 million are 
acutely food insecure. Haiti is one of just five countries worldwide 
where people face immediate risk of starvation. According to the U.N., 
Haiti is as dangerous for children as Gaza. Over 4,000 people have been 
killed in Haiti since January and over one million are displaced. This 
is the situation that Trump and company want to send ½ million Haitian 
refugees back to!NO TO DEPORTATIONS! FRANCE, PAY YOUR DEBT TO HAITI!

🇭🇹Take Action: Week of Solidarity with Haiti, July 15–22, 2025 Join 
Haitian grassroots activists! Demand Reparations and Restitution so that 
Haiti can rebuild a country that meets the needs of its people, not the 
grasping, greedy Global North. Let Haiti Live!

Ways you can take action:

1️⃣Banner drops, bring the message to the streets!

2️⃣Post a solidarity video, tag us & use the hashtags #Haiti 
#Reparations #AbolishICE #Ransom #Justice #Restitution 
#ReparationsYESDeportationsNO

3️⃣Write to the French Embassy (template link HERE 
<https://haitisolidarity.net/demand-france-pay-your-debt-to-haiti/>)

4️⃣Organize or join an action at a French Consulate, Citibank, or ICE office

5️⃣Spread the word: Reparations Yes, Deportations No!

-- 
Haiti Action Committee
PO Box 2040
Berkeley,CA 94702
Website <https://haitisolidarity.net> www.haitisolidarity.net 
<http://www.haitisolidarity.net>
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjujXAgb681TkRNdEo1hh5Q>
Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/HaitiActionCommittee>
Twitter <https://twitter.com/HaitiAction1>

34 years of solidarity with the grassroots struggle for dignity, 
democracy and self-determination of the Haitian people! We Will Not 
Forget the Achievements of Lavalas in Haiti 
<https://haitisolidarity.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/We_Will_Not_Forget_2010.pdf>

Please donate to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund 
<https://haitiemergencyrelief.org/> www.haitiemergencyrelief.org 
<http://www.haitiemergencyrelief.org> - all donations are tax-deductible 
and support Haiti's grassroots struggle for democracy



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