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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=7><b>Haiti Eyewitness - A War
on the Poor Majority</b></font><font size=3> <br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>Tuesday, August 2nd --
7:00 p.m.</b></font><font size=3> <br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>Women's Building - 3543 -
18th Street, SF [betw Valencia & Guerrerro in the
Mission]</b></font><font size=3> <br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Co-sponsored by Haiti Action
Committee and the ANSWER Coalition</font><font size=3> <br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>* Dave Welsh,
San Francisco Labor Council delegate, just back from
a</b></font><font size=3> <br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>Labor/Human Rights
Delegation to Haiti</b></font><font size=3> <br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>* Doug
Spalding, public high school teacher and human rights monitor, just
returned from Haiti</b></font><font size=3> <br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>* Pierre
Labossiere, Haiti Action Committee</b></font><font size=3> <br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>* Gloria La
Riva, ANSWER Coalition</b></font><font size=3> <br>
<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=6><b>* Video
footage documenting the July 6th massacre of civilians by UN troops in
Cite Soleil</b></font><font size=3> <br>
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<b>"What's happening in Haiti is a monstrous crime – an all-out war
on the poor majority</b>," said Dave Welsh, with the Labor/Human
Rights Delegation just returned from Haiti. "The US has prepared the
crime, and now the National Police and UN forces are committing it –
slaughtering people in the poor neighborhoods that support Aristide....
arresting respected grassroots leaders like Father Jean-Juste and Paul
Raymond....and trying to shut down the few remaining independent media
like AHP and Radio Solidarite. <br><br>
"While our delegation was in Haiti, we interviewed and filmed over
100 workers, peasants and professionals from many parts of Haiti,"
Welsh said. "<b>They told us there is no democracy in Haiti today,
that the sham elections set for this fall are just an attempt to
legitimize the illegal coup regime. </b> <br>
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<b>"Terrorize the poor majority....lock up their grassroots
leaders....and choke off the independent press – this is the program of
the US-backed regime."</b> <br>
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Since the July 6th massacre in Cite Soleil, there have been
demonstrations in five countries, including 15-city coordinated protests
on July 21st in the US, Canada, France and Brazil -- demanding a
halt to the killings, freedom for political prisoners, and respect for
Haiti's sovereignty and restoration of its democratically-elected
government. Despite heavy repression, 5,000 people demonstrated in Cite
Soleil to condemn the killings. <br>
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The coup regime may have the guns [courtesy of US taxpayers]. But
they don't have the people. <b>"The US and UN are bent on no less
than the destruction of the Lavalas movement, which is to say the
movement of the vast majority of the Haitian people,"</b> said Doug
Spalding, human rights monitor in Haiti. "<b>But we cannot allow
this to happen."</b> <br>
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The movement is building. You can be part of it. The Haitian people need
you to be part of it. <br>
Come to this forum, see the video footage, hear first-hand reports, and
decide for yourself. <br>
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For more information, call ANSWER at 415-821-6545, or the Haiti Action
Committee at 510-483-7481. <br>
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