International Day of Solidarity With the People of Haiti
The situation in Haiti today could not be more dire. While the puppet government of Ariel Henry has fallen, the reign of terror continues. During this year alone, more than
1500 Haitians have been killed as a result of paramilitary violence. Journalists, clergy, peasant-farmers, students, workers, market women vendors, and others raising their
voices in protest have been met with beatings, incarceration, rape, assassinations and mass killings. Fanmi Lavalas, the people’s party of Haiti, has repeatedly characterized
the situation as a “Hell on Earth.”
These crises have their roots in the 2004 coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the subsequent imposition of foreign occupation, coordinated through the
United Nations. Now, once again, the US and the UN are pushing for a new foreign invasion, this time fronted by troops from Kenya, Benin and the Caribbean. Contractors
are already being flown into Haiti to construct a base for the foreign troops. The Biden Administration is providing weapons and equipment – military aid in the form of
80 humvees, sniper rifles, riot control gear and more. The notoriously repressive Kenyan police are expected to arrive in Haiti later this month.
Without a trace of irony, the same foreign powers responsible for the disastrous state of affairs in Haiti are asking Haitians to believe that more foreign intervention masked by a
UN Security Council resolution will resolve the crisis. While Haitian grassroots organizations have demanded a people’s transitional government composed of honest and democratic forces,
the US is once again attempting to control and manipulate the process in order to maintain elite rule in Haiti.
Only a fundamental change in Haiti of the kind envisioned, articulated and fought for by Haiti’s powerful grassroots movement can reverse any of this. And the US government,
as it has been so often, is the biggest obstacle that stands in the way.
On May 18th, Haitians will commemorate Haitian Flag Day, a day that symbolizes Haitian independence and sovereignty. Please join the Haiti Action Committee on that date for an “International Day of Solidarity With The People of Haiti.” Take action! Mobilize your organization and friends to demonstrate, or do a banner action or take a selfie holding a solidarity message and post to social media with the demands “No more foreign intervention in Haiti – End the occupation” or “US Hands Off Haiti.” Each and every action – big or small – means a great deal. Send photos to action.haiti@gmail.com
Hold your governments accountable. Contact your representatives, demand:
* Stop using US tax dollars to fund the brutal Haitian police and affiliated death squads
• Stop the flow of weapons from the US to death squads in Haiti
• No more foreign intervention – End the occupation
• Stop attacking and deporting Haitian refugees
• Sovereignty and self-determination for Haiti
Partial List of Endorsers:
Advancing the Research, Afrikan Children’s Advanced Learning Center, AIM-West, All African People’s Revolutionary Party, Avotcja KPOO, ANSWER SF, BAYAN NorCal, Bay Area CISPES, Bay Area CODEPINK, Black Alliance for Peace – Bay Area, Chiapas Support Committee – Oakland, Communist Workers League, Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC, Freedom Archives, Gabriela Santa Cruz, Global Exchange, Global Women’s Strike, Global Women’s Strike/Women of Color, International League of Peoples’ Struggle, Haiti Support Group – Guyana, Jericho Movement for Amnesty for PP’s & POW’s, Jericho Florida, Jericho NYC, Kemet Foundation, Justice Vanguard, Latin America Caribbean Working Group of Mass Peace Action, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Marcus Books, Myanmar Student Union, New Afrikan People’s Organization, PAL-Awda NY/NJ, Palestinian Youth Movement, Pan-African Peoples’ Organization, Payday Men’s Network, PEOPLE’S EYE PHOTOGRAPHY, POOR Magazine, Prison Radio, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!), Santa Cruz Climate Action Network, SF Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines [CHRP], SHARE Foundation, St. John’s Presbyterian Church of Berkeley Mission & Justice Commission, Showing Up For Racial Justice [SURJ] Santa Cruz County, Task Force on the Americas, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Santa Cruz County, Women United Against Genocide, Workers World Party, United Black Association for Development Educational Foundation (UEF) – Belize, U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
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Haiti Action Committee
PO Box 2040
Berkeley,CA 94702
33 years of solidarity with the anti-colonial grassroots struggle for dignity, democracy and self-determination of the Haitian people!
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