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<p><strong><span name="email_ 3" id="email_ 3"><span
name="email_ 4" id="email_ 4">Call to Action –
Sept. 30, 2016 </span></span><br>
<span name="email_ 5" id="email_ 5">7th International
Day in Solidarity with Haiti</span></strong><br>
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<p><span name="email_ 6" id="email_ 6">In January, 68
grassroots organizations issued a </span><a
target="_blank" id="auto_assign_link_num_1"
href="http://trk.cp20.com/click/ch0v7-45molq-2k0awxe5/"
name="haitisolidarity net downloads Statement 20fro"><span
name="email_ 7" id="email_ 7">Call for Solidarity
from Haiti’s popular movement</span></a><span
name="email_ 8" id="email_ 8"> (“We will not obey”).
In response, friends of Haiti are having public events
in many cities on Sept. 30, the 25<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the first US-backed military coup
against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. </span></p>
<p><span name="email_ 9" id="email_ 9"></span><span
name="email_ 10" id="email_ 10">Organizers call it the
7<sup>th</sup> International Day in Solidarity with
Haiti; the earlier six “international days” took place
in 107 cities in 29 countries on five continents
beginning in 2005. <span name="email_ 11" id="email_
11"><strong>In Oakland we’re having a</strong> <strong>street
demonstration with music and drums on Fri. 9/30,
4:30 PM at 14th & Broadway, and a public event
on Sun. 10/2, 3:00 PM at Eastside Arts, 2277
International Blvd, with the theme: “US Hands Off
Haiti!”</strong></span> </span></p>
<p><span name="email_ 12" id="email_ 12">The irresistible
momentum of Haiti’s non-stop mass movement – with tens
of thousands in the streets almost daily for many
months – has forced annulment of the fraudulent 2015
elections. The new election date is October 9, 2016.
But the U.S. Embassy and its allies are still scheming
to block Haiti’s most popular political party, <em>Fanmi
Lavalas</em>, and thwart the popular will in this
election.</span></p>
<p><span name="email_ 13" id="email_ 13">That’s why it’s
so important for friends of Haiti to do what you’ve
done six times before on these “International Days” –
<strong>organize public events in support of the
fighting people of Haiti – on or about Friday, Sept.
30. These actions – from street demonstrations to
public or house meetings, musical events, radio
shows, vigils and film showings – are all locally
organized. So it’s up to you to make this happen in
your town. </strong></span></p>
<p><span name="email_ 14" id="email_ 14">In 2015, after
being excluded for 11 years since a second
US-sponsored military coup in 2004, the <em>Lavalas</em>
party was finally able to run candidates again, headed
by Maryse Narcisse for President. Ever since, huge
crowds all over Haiti have welcomed Dr. Narcisse (and
Aristide) and her grassroots campaign. [</span><a
target="_blank" name="https youtube watch feature
player_embedded" id="auto_assign_link_num_3"
href="http://trk.cp20.com/click/ch0v7-45molr-2k0awxe6/"><span
name="email_ 15" id="email_ 15">Video: Aristide and
Maryse Narcisse campaigning</span></a><span
name="email_ 16" id="email_ 16">, surrounded by
marching crowds, 8/29/16] Just like they marched to
stop the brazen attempt to steal the 2015 elections
and impose a US-favored candidate.</span></p>
<p><span name="email_ 17" id="email_ 17"><strong>Over 200
years ago, Haitians rose up and overthrew both
slavery and colonial rule. Now, when the enemies of
freedom and sovereignty are attempting to
re-colonize and re-enslave Haiti, we need to act in
solidarity with our Haitian comrades, in the spirit
of their fierce resistance. </strong>Join us in
raising their just demands:</span> <strong><span
name="email_ 18" id="email_ 18"></span><span
name="email_ 19" id="email_ 19"></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span name="email_ 20" id="email_ 20">1) Free
and fair elections!</span></strong> <span
name="email_ 21" id="email_ 21">[Scheduled</span> for
October 9, 2016.]<strong></strong></p>
<p><span name="email_ 22" id="email_ 22"></span><span
name="email_ 23" id="email_ 23"></span><strong>2) No
US, UN or OAS interference in the elections!</strong>
[They were involved in the fraud last time!] Respect
Haiti’s sovereignty! <br>
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<p> <strong><span name="email_ 24" id="email_ 24">3) Stop
the terror campaign against the poor majority</span></strong>
and the Lavalas popular movement! End the brutal US/UN
foreign military occupation!<br>
<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>4) Rebuilding Haiti the way the Haitian 99%
want it built </strong>– Paying a living wage in the
factories instead of sweatshop wages … Restoring farming
self-sufficiency so Haiti can feed itself again … Real
Haitian control of mineral resources and aid funds …
Jobs, schools, housing, clean water and health care for
the people! … In short, the program of Aristide’s
Lavalas movement and its Presidential candidate, Dr.
Maryse Narcisse. <br>
<span name="email_ 25" id="email_ 25"></span></p>
<p><span name="email_ 26" id="email_ 26">This is a
critical time for Haiti.<strong><span name="email_ 27"
id="email_ 27"> Let us know what events you’re
planning for Sept. 30, so we can publicize them
and build momentum</span></strong> <strong><span
name="email_ 28" id="email_ 28">for the 7th
International Day.</span></strong><strong> </strong>Contact
us: </span><a href="mailto:haitiaction@sonic.net"><span
name="email_ 29" id="email_ 29">haitiaction@sonic.net</span></a><span
name="email_ 30" id="email_ 30"> or 510 847 8657 for
assistance, speakers, films, materials.” Haiti Action
on Facebook @HaitiAction1<br>
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Resources (click on the links): <br>
</p>
<p> • <a target="_blank" id="auto_assign_link_num_6"
href="http://trk.cp20.com/click/ch0v7-45mols-2k0awxe7/"
name="Why it is important to remember Sept 30 1991">Why
it is important to remember Sept. 30, 1991</a><br>
• <a target="_blank" id="auto_assign_link_num_7"
href="http://trk.cp20.com/click/ch0v7-45molt-2k0awxe8/"
name="SF Labor Council Resolution in solidarity wit">S.F.
Labor Council Resolution in solidarity with Haiti</a><br>
• <a target="_blank" id="auto_assign_link_num_8"
href="http://trk.cp20.com/click/ch0v7-45molu-2k0awxe9/"
name="Haiti Action Committee nbsp Aug 2016 Newslett">Haiti
Action Committee (Aug. 2016 Newsletter) </a> <br>
• <a target="_blank" id="auto_assign_link_num_9"
href="http://trk.cp20.com/click/ch0v7-45molv-2k0awxe0/"
name="Film Haiti We Must Kill the Bandits Kevin Pin">
Film: Haiti: We Must Kill the Bandits, Kevin Pina </a></p>
<p> <em><strong>Previous International Days in Solidarity
with Haiti, 2005-2015 – Actions in 107 cities in 29
countries on 5 continents</strong><br>
<strong>#1 – Sept. 30, 2005</strong> demonstrations
shined a light on massacres by Brazilian-led United
Nations troops in Cite Soleil, Bel Air and other
strongholds of the Lavalas popular movement … <strong>#2
– Feb. 7, 2007</strong>, commemorating the date in
1986 when dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier was forced to
leave the country by the tremendous mass movement of
Haiti’s poor majority – called Lavalas (flash flood)
and led by a parish priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide … <strong>#3
– Feb. 29, 2008,</strong> commemorating the date in
2004 when US, French and Canadian military invaded
Haiti, kidnapping President Aristide from his home
after midnight and flying him to exile in Africa on a
US military plane … <strong>#4 – Jan. 2010</strong> –
Haiti emergency earthquake solidarity week….<strong>#5
– Feb. 28, 2014</strong> … <strong>#6 – Dec. 16,
2015</strong>, commemorating the date of Haiti’s
first free election in 1990, when Father Aristide
swept into the Presidency with 2/3 of the vote, on a
platform of social & economic justice for the poor
majority – only to be overthrown 7 months later in a
US-backed military coup on 9/30/1991.<br>
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