[News] SOS For Haiti!! SF/Bay Area Protest Tuesday, May 20th, 4:30pm at Citibank 88 Kearny Street at Post

[Anti-Imperialist News]

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In 1804, the Haitian revolution successfully destroyed slavery in Haiti 
and won independence from France. In 1825, the French government sent 
warships to force the Haitians to pay their former French enslavers 150 
million gold francs for their “lost property” or face an invasion. 
Paying off this “debt,” which was taken over by Citibank and estimated 
in today’s market to be up to 115 billion dollars, is what impoverished 
Haiti. In 2003, President Jean Bertrand Aristide demanded that France 
pay restitution. Nine months later he was overthrown in a coup 
orchestrated by France, US and Canada.


Today in Haiti, slow motion genocide is deepening as paramiliary death 
squads, funded by the Haitian elite and equipped with US-made weapons, 
are running rampant. Massacres and systematic rape are relentless. One 
million people have been internally displaced and more than half of the 
population is suffering from acute hunger. Now the Trump administration 
plans to deport half a million Haitian migrants back to this situation 
by the end of the summer.


Facing all this, the popular movement continues to fight back, but our 
solidarity is critical. May 18th is celebrated throughout the Haitian 
diaspora in commemoration of the establishment of the Haitian flag in 1804.

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*Join Haiti Action Committee for this International Day of Protest.*


For more information, go to www.haitisolidarity.net 
<http://www.haitisolidarity.net/> and email action.haiti at gmail.com

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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>

33 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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