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<div><b><i><span></span></i></b><b><i><span></span></i></b><b><span></span></b><font
size="+1"><b><span>STOP HAITI’S ELECTORAL COUP &
VIOLENCE &
REPRESSION VS PROTESTERS! </span></b></font><span></span><span></span>
<p><span>
Two days after Haitians marked the 213<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of their
revolution, on</span><span>
January 3, 2017 Haiti’s electoral council ignored
massive protests and named <span>Jovenel Moise
Haiti’s new President. Jovenel
Moise is a businessman handpicked by former
Duvalierist President Michel
Martelly and backed by the US and the EU. </span><span>The
process by the US/UN occupation of re-imposing a
dictatorship on the Haitian
people, which began with the 2004 coup that ousted
President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, is becoming further entrenched.</span></span></p>
<p><span>Thousands
of <span>protestors </span>decrying massive fraud in
Haiti’s recent Presidential and legislative elections<span>
have taken to the streets daily since the November
20<sup>th</sup>
election. They are being met with violence and
other repression by UN
trained/supervised police including </span><span>tear
gas, bullets, batons and rifle butts</span></span><span>.
</span><span><br>
</span><span><br>
</span><span>l</span><span> </span><span>Crowds
are being shot at with both rubber and real bullets.
On Christmas Eve,
heavily armed militarized police shot indiscriminately
into a crowd of
thousands, and many demonstrators were wounded.</span><span></span></p>
<p><span>
</span><span>l </span><span>Protestors
are being repulsed with water cannons – a caustic
irritant has been added to
the water which burns people’s skin.</span><span></span></p>
<p><span></span><span>
</span><span>l </span><span>Tear
gas has been lobbed by police into sleeping
communities known to be
strongholds of Lavalas support. Three babies
suffocated to death as a
result of the amount and strength of tear gas used.</span></p>
<span></span><span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>
</span><b><span>Jovenel
Moise has announced that his government will build
more prisons and pass a
law to further limit freedom of alternative media.</span></b><span>
Already reporters
from Radio Timoun, an alternative media outlet, have
been violently attacked.</span></p>
<span></span><span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>
</span><span>The </span><span class="s1"><span>Provisional
Electoral
Council or </span></span><span>CEP, with the
cooperation of the US, EU and UN ‘peacekeeping’
forces, swept evidence of massive fraud under the rug
and orchestrated an
electoral coup d’etat favoring the candidate of the
business elite as </span><span>Haiti’s new President.
</span><span class="s1"><span> See <i>Human
Rights and Alternative Media Delegation Report<b>
</b></i></span></span><span><a
href="http://globalwomenstrike.net/content/human-rights-and-alternative-media-delegation-report-haiti-november-20th-elections">http://globalwomenstrike.net/content/human-rights-and-alternative-media-delegation-report-haiti-november-20th-elections</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="s1"><span>Three
major candidates formally protested the fraudulent
election results including
Dr. Maryse Narcisse, the candidate of </span></span><span>Fanmi
Lavalas the
political party and movement headed by Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, Haiti's first
democratically elected president. But the protesting
candidates and
their legal representatives were denied access by CEP
judges to the tally
sheets - this after they discovered and objected to
massive discrepancies in
the tally sheets they initially had access to. The
fraud was so grossly
blatant and massive that, in a sample being verified
before access was
denied, 85% of the votes for Jovenel Moise were
disqualified. </span><span>Lavalas
has issued a communique rejecting the fraudulent
results of the CEP and
calling on people to mobilize against this massively
orchestrated
fraud/electoral coup d/etat.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The Haitian grassroots
are yet again risking their lives for the right to
choose their own
president. <span>In the lead up to the election, 68
Haitian grassroots organization issued a a
statement calling
for solidarity with Haiti's struggle for free and
fair elections,
dignity and justice under the banner, Nou Pap Obeyi
- We Will Not Obey
Illegitimate Authority. Excerpt from the Statement
of 68 Grassroots
Organizations:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span>"Right
after the earthquake, the internationals took
advantage of our momentary
state of helplessness to occupy the political space.
Today, the Haitian
people are engaged in an all out struggle to reclaim
that space and to exercise
their right to vote. The very ones who hijacked the
reconstruction money want
to prevent the people from choosing their
government, in a wide scale
conspiracy to continue the looting of the country’s
resources... The Haitian
people…are in a fight for their very existence. We
say NO, WE WILL NOT
OBEY ILLEGITIMATE OFFICIALS... Today, confronted by
the danger presented by
local and international colonialists, the Haitian
people have started a
RESISTANCE FOR EXISTENCE movement. We ask for people
to people solidarity
from everywhere on the planet."</span></i></p>
<p><span>“<i>Nou
Pap Obeyi”</i> is a powerful slogan for all as we
approach the new and
challenging years ahead. Stand with the people of
Haiti and their resistance
to this electoral coup - we all owe Haiti a great debt
beginning with their
1804 revolution that defeated the powerful French army
of Napoleon and led
the way for the ending of slavery in the Americas. </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span><br>
</span></b><b><span>What you can do:</span></b><span>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>·</span><span>
</span><span>Circulate this information, not covered by
corporate media, to
your friends and networks</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>·</span><span>
</span><span>Contact US officials to protest US
complicity in voter
suppression and fraud, and to urge the US not to
recognize this
fraudulently-elected leader of Haiti</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>-</span><span>
</span><span>President Obama: </span><span><a
href="tel:202-456-1111" target="_blank"><span>202-456-1111</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>-</span><span>
</span><span>US
State Department: <span><a
href="mailto:haitispecialcoordinator@state.gov"
target="_blank"><span>haitispecialcoordinator@state.gov</span></a>,</span>
<span>Secretary Kerry @John Kerry</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>-</span><span>
</span><span>Your
Member of Congress: <span><a
href="tel:202-224%203121" target="_blank"><span>202-224
3121</span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>·</span><span>
</span><span>Protest to the UN Mission in Haiti and
demand an end to violent
suppression of free speech:<br>
</span><span><a href="mailto:minustah-info@un.org"
target="_blank"><span>minustah-info@un.org</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span>·</span><span>
</span><span>Donate
to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, which supports
democracy, independent
media, education and more in Haiti<span
class="gmail-m-541685053187170316apple-style-span"><b><span>
</span></b>at:<span> </span><span><a
href="http://www.haitiemergencyrelief.org/"
target="_blank"><span>www.haitiemergencyrelief.org</span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" align="center"><b><span>Issued
by: Haiti Action Committee, Global Women’s Strike
& Women of Color/GWS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span><br>
</span></b><b><span>For more info: </span></b><span><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/Haiti-Action-Committee-262983839885/">https://www.facebook.com/Haiti-Action-Committee-262983839885/</a><b><span>
<br>
</span></b></span><b><span><br>
</span></b><b><span>For additional independent news
coverage:<br>
</span></b><span><a
href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=18067">http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=18067</a><br>
</span><span><a
href="https://soundcloud.com/sojournertruthradio/sojourner-truth-radio-moise-confirmed-haitian-president-despite-voter-suppression-and-mass-protest?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm">https://soundcloud.com/sojournertruthradio/sojourner-truth-radio-moise-confirmed-haitian-president-despite-voter-suppression-and-mass-protest?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm</a><span><br>
</span><a
href="http://therealnews.com/t2/story:17816:Protesters-in-Haiti-Say-Moise-Victory-Amounts-to-%27Electoral-Coup%27">http://therealnews.com/t2/story:17816:Protesters-in-Haiti-Say-Moise-Victory-Amounts-to-%27Electoral-Coup%27</a></span><span><br>
</span><span><a
href="https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=247221"><span>https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=247221</span></a></span><span><br>
</span><span><a
href="https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-december-20-2016/">https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-december-20-2016/</a><br>
<a
href="http://sfbayview.com/2016/11/the-people-of-haiti-are-under-attack-as-they-fight-for-their-liberation/">http://sfbayview.com/2016/11/the-people-of-haiti-are-under-attack-as-they-fight-for-their-liberation/</a><br>
<span><a
href="http://sfbayview.com/2016/12/resisting-the-lynching-of-haitian-liberty/"
target="_blank">http://sfbayview.com/2016/12/resisting-the-lynching-of-haitian-liberty/</a></span></span></p>
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