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<div align="center"><font size=6><b>Stand with Haiti’s Grassroots
Movement<br><br>
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<font size=3><i>On November 18th, 1803 the Battle of Vertières delivered
the final blow to the French attempt to stop the Haitian Revolution and
re-institute slavery. Less than two months before Dessalines'
proclamation of the independent Republic of Haiti on 1 January 1804, this
battle marks</i> <i>the last and decisive battle in Haiti's war for
independence against France. <br><br>
</i></font><font size=6><b>Wednesday, November 17, 2010<br><br>
</font><font size=3>5 p.m. Rally, Montgomery & Market, San
Francisco<br>
5:30 p.m. March to Brazil Consulate, 300 Montgomery St.<br><br>
</b>Ten months after the earthquake, Haiti’s 1.5 million refugees remain
in squalid camps with inadequate food, water, shelter, and work. Ruthless
measures to force the displaced off privately-owned land – withholding
humanitarian aid, threats, and bulldozers – are backed by Haitian Police.
The UN Mission, while claiming to have largely addressed “the immediate
humanitarian needs of Haiti’s people,” has in fact failed
miserably.<br><br>
Bill Clinton heads an unelected Interim Commission charged with planning
Haiti’s future. Haitian President Preval has mere “veto power” over its
schemes to grab profits for foreign business and Haiti’s elite under the
guise of recovery, touting garment sweatshops, renewed tourism, and
export agriculture as the solution to Haiti’s problems.<br><br>
Haiti’s Popular Organizations, among them thousands of organized
grassroots women, reject this neo-liberal plan, resolved to reassert the
democratic programs of President Aristide and <i>Fanmi Lavalas</i> –
education, jobs, housing, health care, sustainable agriculture. This
powerful movement, a target of two coups and violent repression over the
past 25 years, represents Haiti’s most sustained resistance since
1804.<br><br>
The November elections have again barred <i>Fanmi Lavalas</i>, the most
popular party, from participation, making any real choice for Haitians
impossible. Sham elections offer foreign investors a phony mandate
and veneer of stability to pursue profits.<br><br>
We Demand: <b>Solidarity, not charity</b> * <b>No sham elections</b> *
<b>Return President Aristide</b> * <b>End the violence and human rights
abuses</b> * <b>End the UN occupation of Haiti<br><br>
</b><i>Sponsored by Haiti Action Committee. For more information, visit
our website at
<a href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net/">www.HaitiSolidarity.Net</a></i>
or call 510.483.7481.<br><br>
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