<html>
<body>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=5><b>"Lock Sister Anne up in prison
and she will feed the prisoners."</b></font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=3><i>by <b>Haiti information
Project<br>
<a href="http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/5_24_4.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/5_24_4.html<br><br>
</a></b>May 24, 2004<br><br>
</i><b>Port-au-Prince</b> - <i>While on the outside the US Marines are
trying to turn Haiti into a prison.
<a href="http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/../about/SoAnne.html">Lavalas
leaderSò Anne</a>is using her time to organize inside the
Penitentiary</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>...<br><br>
</i></font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Annette Auguste has been
imprisoned for her political beliefs since her home was
<a href="http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/5_12_4.html">violently
invaded by U.S. Marines</a> on May 10th. The U.S. government has done
everything it can to insure she remains a prisoner of conscience
including accusing her of having contact with Haitian muslims and
planning to attack U.S. Marines.<br><br>
This unilateral invasion of a respected peaceful activist for Lavalas was
so outrageous that U.S. Congesswoman Maxine Waters wrote these
<a href="http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/../mw5_21_4.html">two
letters to Secretary Colin Powell</a> in protest to the arrest of Sò
Anne.<br><br>
It is hard to understand why the U.S. government considers Auguste so
dangerous when you see her sitting in her jail cell receiving visits from
the poor who have come to revere her. They come in droves and just want
to spend a little time talking with her to make sure she is alright and
bring small gifts of food. It is perhaps easier to understand why the
Bush administration considers her to be a "risk to stability and
security in Haiti" when you see the assistance and help she gives to
other prisoners who are less fortunate to have her popularity and
reputation. It is reported that she was transferred from the National
Penitentiary a week ago because her jailers were concerned with her
growing influence because of her helping to give small amounts of money
to free some wrongfully incarcerated while generously sharing her gifts
of food from admirers and family with other less fortunate prisoners.
Since then, they have transferred her to a smaller prison in Petion-Ville
but to the angst of the U.S. and their puppets in the judicial system,
she continues to gain in popularity as she refuses to stop organizing and
helping others from within her concrete and bare jail cell.<br><br>
This is a salute to Auguste who is an indomitable prisoner of conscience
who will never stop her work on behalf of the poor even from behind
prison bars. <br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=3 color="#FF0000"><b>Emergency
</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=3 color="#0000EF">Action
</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=3 color="#FF0000">Alert<br><br>
</font></div>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><i><a href="http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/../hac5_11_4.html">Demand
the immediate release<br>
of Anne Auguste (So Anne)<br><br>
</a></i></b></font><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
<font size=3 color="#FF0000">The Freedom Archives<br>
522 Valencia Street<br>
San Francisco, CA 94110<br>
(415) 863-9977<br>
</font><font size=3><a href="http://www.freedomarchives.org/" eudora="autourl">www.freedomarchives.org</a></font></body>
</html>