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<div>Dear Friends of Haiti:</div>
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you from Haiti Action Committee for all your work to
defend President Aristide and the Lavalas movement. You
responded
immediately to action alerts, flooding the State Department with
phone
calls. You signed and distributed an open letter condemning the
repression in Haiti. You came to our emergency demonstration in
San
Francisco on two days’ notice, in solidarity with the thousands
who marched in
Haiti to mark the anniversary of the 1991 coup against
Aristide. Your
voices were heard here and in Haiti.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">By
the second day of our action alert, the State Department was
already having subordinates answer the phone and they told
several of us
"We are getting a lot of calls about this." </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">THANK
YOU!</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">We
need to be prepared for another round of attacks against
President Aristide and the democratic movement. We will keep
you posted
and we may once again have to ask for your immediate support in
the future.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">With
appreciation and gratitude,</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Haiti
Action Committee</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><b><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Haiti
Update
10/30/14</span></b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><font
color="#000000">On Thursday, October
10th illegally appointed Judge Lamarre Belizaire pressed
forward with his
arrest order against President Aristide. President Aristide's
residence is
located within the jurisdiction of Croix-des-Bouquets near
Port-au-Prince. The
next day the D.A. or Commissaire of that jurisdiction
questioned the
legality of the warrant, as he was being pressured to carry
out the arrest that
day. He requested the entire legal package for his review, and
was
summarily dismissed from his job by the government of
illegally selected
President Martelly and Prime Minister Lamothe.</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">He
was
replaced with a new D.A., Souvenir Jeanty, a former member of
the disbanded
Haitian military with a reputation for brutality. Jeanty has
pledged
to carry out Judge Belizaire's order to arrest President
Aristide, despite the
call for Belizaire’s legal recusal by Aristide's lawyers. The
Minister of
Justice, Jean Renel Sanon, is also a former officer of the
disbanded military
who according to some reports was dismissed in the late 1980's
for alleged
involvement in drug trafficking.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">On
October 16, three members of
the CSPJ (the governing council overseeing the Haitian justice
system) and the
president of ANAMAH (the National Association of Haitian judges)
publicly
denounced the subjugation of the judicial system by the
Martelly/Lamothe
government, pointing to the political persecution of Martelly’s
opponents and
the illegal firing and appointing of judges. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Attacks
continue on Aristide and
the grassroots multitudes who support him. Haiti Action
Committee condemns the
brutal assassination of activists and community organizers Paul
Ambroise aka Ti
Koton and Michael Benoit on October 8 as they were leaving a
soccer match.
Ambroise, an outspoken supporter of former President Aristide
and aspiring
mayoral candidate was killed along with Benoit in cold-blooded
fashion by
agents of the Martelly/Lamothe appointed mayor of
Port-au-Prince, Pierre Rigaud
Duplan, who was on the scene and pointed out the two. No arrest
was made by the
police. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">HAC
also condemns the brutal
arrest of the Mascary couple from the southern island of
Ile-a-Vache on Friday
10/24/14. The 89-year old wife and 82-year old husband were
protesting the
theft of their land and the bulldozing of their farm and
livelihood as part of
an island-wide land-grab for wealthy investors, who wan</span></span><span><span
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color="#000000">t
to expropriate the residents’ land an</font><span
style="color:black">d build exclusive
resorts. The operations were conducted under the orders of
another
Martelly-appointed mayor, Fritz Cesar. Marc Donald (Jinal)
Laines the President
of KOPI, the peasant organization protesting land-grabs on
the island, died
last Saturday 10/25/14 of injuries sustained during a very
suspicious
"accident" the day before. </span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">In
other
examples of the growing repression in the country, Haitian
police attacked
legal and peaceful demonstrations on September 30<sup>th</sup>,
October 17<sup>th</sup>
and October 26th. The September 30th demonstrations marked the
1991 coup by the
Haitian military and those of October 17 commemorated the
assassination of
Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the first coup in Haiti in
1806. On October
26th, “failed election day,” people throughout Haiti were in
the streets to
demand that free and fair elections be held, which the
Martelly/Lamothe
government, acting as agents of the US/UN occupation, have
once again denied
the nation. In short, the picture that emerges is no election
of local and
national representatives, but rather appointment of people
unaccountable to the
community who carry out Martelly and Lamothe dictates. <u> </u></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">People
had
turned out in massive numbers on these three occasions to
protest miserable
living conditions, demand an end to the persecution of former
President
Aristide, call for the resignation of Martelly and Lamothe,
and for free and
fair elections. The police attacked the crowds with tear gas
and a liquid
skin-irritant, and they beat up peaceful demonstrators. Jean
Nadal Aristide, a
western region Lavalas coordination member and a spokesperson
for the September
30th mobilization, was arrested on October 4th; again under a
warrant issued by
Belizaire, and nineteen demonstrators, including one dressed
as
Dessalines, were arrested on October 17th.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">A
preliminary list of the
arrested organizers and participants in the October 26th protest
includes Biron
Odige, Rony Thimothe and three musicians from Port-au-Prince,
along with
Frantzou Dieu, Maxon Luxamar and Petuel Menton from Les Cayes.
All are being
kept in jail illegally in retaliation for their participation in
the
demonstrations.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Haiti
Action Committee joins Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the
Haitian attorneys who have brought an action in Haitian courts
against the
police, and the people of Haiti to denounce and condemn the
on-going government
repression.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Haiti
Action Committee</span></p>
<span
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href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net">www.haitisolidarity.net</a>
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